scholarly journals Sobre los mitos del Rey Arturo y de la magia

2021 ◽  
Vol 79 (155) ◽  
pp. 499-520
Author(s):  
Mario Ramos Vera
Keyword(s):  
Lewis Y ◽  
Charles Williams

Los ensayistas y literatos C. S. Lewis y Charles Williams recogieron la Materia de Bretaña, con su valor mítico, y lo plasmaron dualmente a través de las leyendas artúricas y la categorización de la magia a través de la división convencional entre magia blanca y magia negra. En este último supuesto, respetaron la división propia de los mitos de las artes mágicas entre teúrgia y goetia —magia natural y magia demoníaca— en continuidad con los planteamientos de la renacentista Academia Platónica de Florencia. Esta recepción del mito aparece nítidamente en las obras de C. S. Lewis, Esa horrible fortaleza, y de Charles Williams, Guerra en el cielo. Se trata de marcos de ficción, donde realizan un ejercicio mitopoético que vincula los mitos artúricos y mágicos para responder desde un fundamento metafísico y trascendente a preguntas perennes de la condición humana.

Charles Williams as a Father

2016 ◽  
Vol 6 (1) ◽  
pp. 147-151
Author(s):  
Stephen Barber
Keyword(s):  
Charles Williams

Charles Williams’s Arthuriad: Mythic Vision and the Possibilities of Belief

2011 ◽  
Vol 1 (1) ◽  
pp. 33-46
Author(s):  
J. G. Bradbury
Keyword(s):  
Religious Faith ◽  
Source Material ◽  
Modern World ◽  
Christian Belief ◽  
Devotional Poetry ◽  
Religious Worldview ◽  
Intellectual Milieu ◽  
Charles Williams ◽  
Narrative Mode ◽  
Intellectual Environment

This essay explores Charles Williams’s use of the Arthurian myth to sustain a religious worldview in the aftermath of sustained attacks on the relevance and veracity of Christian belief in the early twentieth century. The premise to be explored is that key developments in science and philosophy made during the nineteenth and early twentieth centuries resulted in a cultural and intellectual milieu in which assertions of religious faith became increasingly difficult. In literary terms this became evident in, amongst other things, the significant reduction in the production of devotional poetry. By the late 1930s the intellectual environment was such that Charles Williams, a man of profound religious belief who might otherwise have been expected to produce devotional work, turned to a much older mode, that of myth, that had taken on new relevance in the modern world. Williams’s use of this mode allowed him the possibility of expressing a singularly Christian vision to a world in which such vision was in danger of becoming anathema. This essay examines the way in which Williams’s lexis, verse structure, and narrative mode builds on his Arthurian source material to allow for an appreciation of religiously-informed ideas in the modern world.

Double Affirmation: Medievalism as Christian Apologetic in the Arthurian Poetry of Charles Williams

2013 ◽  
Vol 3 (2) ◽  
pp. 59-96
Author(s):  
Sørina Higgins
Keyword(s):  
Twentieth Century ◽  
The Body ◽  
European History ◽  
Body Of Christ ◽  
Female Figure ◽  
Century Poetry ◽  
Charles Williams ◽  
Embodied Theology

In his unfinished cycle of Arthurian poems, Charles Williams developed a totalizing mythology in which he fictionalized the Medieval. First, he employed chronological conflation, juxtaposing events and cultural references from a millennium of European history and aligning each with his doctrinal system. Second, following the Biblical metaphor of the body of Christ, Blake’s symbolism, and Rosicrucian sacramentalism, he embodied theology in the Medieval landscape via a superimposed female figure. Finally, Williams worked to show the validity of two Scholastic approaches to spirituality: the kataphatic and apophatic paths. His attempts to balance via negativa and via positiva led Williams to practical misapplication—but also to creation of a landmark work of twentieth century poetry. . . . the two great vocations, the Rejection of all images before the unimaged, the Affirmation of all images before the all-imaged, the Rejection affirming, the Affirmation rejecting. . . —from ‘The Departure of Dindrane’ —O Blessed, pardon affirmation!— —O Blessed, pardon negation!— —from ‘The Prayers of the Pope’

The Grail Poetry of Charles Williams

1956 ◽  
Vol 25 (4) ◽  
pp. 484-493
Author(s):  
C.P. Crowley
Keyword(s):  
Charles Williams
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