

Quest of the reader in representing epistemological and hermeneutical Understanding" and the opening of such locks-through mirroring the I contend that theĬyclical pathways of interpretation, the "locking out of "locked me out of its understanding" (8). The wood are partly comprehensible through the diary of Steven'sįather, who was the initiator of various scientific investigations into As one of the protagonists, Steven Huxley, explains, Uninitiated into the secret gateways, the "hollowings," into The beginning, just as Ryhope Wood prepares circular paths for those The novels may constantly deny interpretation and turn us back to Perceived in the form of "movement at the edge of. Mythic archetypes which are, according to the novels' logic,

Takes on the characteristics of the pre-mythagos-the primeval forms of Primary budding of the "about" flickers around the reader and These cyclical returns to the outset of "pathfinding," the Movements feeling their ways around the magical paths of Ryhope Wood. The "about" may, at the end of theĭay, remain just as circular as the protagonists' first tentative Mirror to the searching intellect through their self-reflexive quality,Īnd thus, in a recoil of the epistemological quest, interpretation couldįinally appear to have in fact ferreted out a representation of the Reader's probing into his or her own mind. That investigate deeply into the recesses of the mind could also appear,īy an inversion of some final analysis, to have resulted from the Nevertheless, the "about" of the Mythago novels Lewis, is thus, among others, "about" the Single most notable effort in British fantasy since the works of J. IN INTERPRETATION IT IS TEMPTING TO DECLARE THAT A NOVEL IS APA style: Masks in the forest: the dynamics of surface and depth in Robert Holdstock's Mythago cycle.Masks in the forest: the dynamics of surface and depth in Robert Holdstock's Mythago cycle." Retrieved from 2007 The International Association for the Fantastic in the Arts 25 May. MLA style: "Masks in the forest: the dynamics of surface and depth in Robert Holdstock's Mythago cycle." The Free Library.
