Madeleine L'Engle Herself by Madeleine L'engle

Author:Madeleine L'engle
Language: eng
Format: epub
Publisher: The Crown Publishing Group
Published: 2018-09-17T16:00:00+00:00

TELLING MYTHIC STORIES

I read an article that discusses just why J. R. R. Tolkien is so enormously popular with high school and college age students. One young reader says that he goes to Tolkien simply for the sheer fun he gets out of the books. A Columbia freshman says that he and his classmates would be downcast if there were a social meaning.

Some older readers insist that the books are a powerful and hopeful affirmation about man filled with philosophical import. Of course, they’re right, but in a basic way, the younger ones are the most right. If what you see on reading a story which is written in the mythic form is not the story but the philosophy or theology which motivates the story, then the storyteller has failed. The motivation behind a mythic book has got to be implicit. It’s got to be there, but it mustn’t show.

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