From Peterborough To Faëry: The Poetics And Mechanics Of Secondary Worlds. Eds. Thomas Honegger And Dirk Vanderbeke,
2017
Independent Scholar
From Peterborough To Faëry: The Poetics And Mechanics Of Secondary Worlds. Eds. Thomas Honegger And Dirk Vanderbeke, David Emerson
Mythlore: A Journal of J.R.R. Tolkien, C.S. Lewis, Charles Williams, and Mythopoeic Literature
No abstract provided.
The Invention Of Angela Carter: A Biography By Edmund Gordon,
2017
University of Arizona
The Invention Of Angela Carter: A Biography By Edmund Gordon, Dennis Wilson Wise
Mythlore: A Journal of J.R.R. Tolkien, C.S. Lewis, Charles Williams, and Mythopoeic Literature
No abstract provided.
Briefly Noted: Orcrist: The Bulletin Of The Tolkien And Fantasy Society At The University Of Wisconsin--Madison #9. Ed. Richard C. West, Lucas Annear, And Jack Mathie,
2017
Rutgers University
Briefly Noted: Orcrist: The Bulletin Of The Tolkien And Fantasy Society At The University Of Wisconsin--Madison #9. Ed. Richard C. West, Lucas Annear, And Jack Mathie, Janet Brennan Croft
Mythlore: A Journal of J.R.R. Tolkien, C.S. Lewis, Charles Williams, and Mythopoeic Literature
No abstract provided.
Three Rings For The Elven-Kings: Trilogizing Tolkien In Print And Film,
2017
Texas State University
Three Rings For The Elven-Kings: Trilogizing Tolkien In Print And Film, Robert T. Tally, Jr.
Mythlore: A Journal of J.R.R. Tolkien, C.S. Lewis, Charles Williams, and Mythopoeic Literature
Discusses the division of works meant to be whole into trilogies; primarily Tolkien’s lengthy novel, split into two volumes due to printing considerations, and Peter Jackson’s film trilogies of The Lord of the Rings and The Hobbit.
The Ravenclaw Chronicles: Reflections From Edinboro. Ed. Corbin Fowler And Harry Potter For Nerds Ii: Essays For Fans, Academics, And Lit Geeks. Eds. Kathryn Mcdaniel And Travis Prinzi,
2017
Southwestern Oklahoma State University
The Ravenclaw Chronicles: Reflections From Edinboro. Ed. Corbin Fowler And Harry Potter For Nerds Ii: Essays For Fans, Academics, And Lit Geeks. Eds. Kathryn Mcdaniel And Travis Prinzi, Jennifer W. Spirko
Mythlore: A Journal of J.R.R. Tolkien, C.S. Lewis, Charles Williams, and Mythopoeic Literature
No abstract provided.
"Countries Of The Mind": The Mundane, The Fantastic, And Reality In The Landscapes Of Diana Wynne Jones's Hexwood And Garth Nix's Old Kingdom Series,
2017
Kansas State University
"Countries Of The Mind": The Mundane, The Fantastic, And Reality In The Landscapes Of Diana Wynne Jones's Hexwood And Garth Nix's Old Kingdom Series, Brittani Ivan
Mythlore: A Journal of J.R.R. Tolkien, C.S. Lewis, Charles Williams, and Mythopoeic Literature
The landscape, in a piece of mythopoeic fiction, is more than a backdrop to the action- It is the story itself rendered static. The way each author arranges their landscape thus reflects their conception of continuities, discontinuities, and imbalances of power and reality between the mundane and the fantastic. I argue that by applying the postcolonial theories of Mary Louise Pratt, Michel de Certeau, and Homi Bhaba to the fantastic landscapes that are mapped or left unmapped by Diana Wynne Jones in Hexwood and Garth Nix in his Old Kingdom Series, it is revealed that the ideological divide between the …
‘Morning Stars Of A Setting World’: Alain De Lille’S De Planctu Naturæ And Tolkien’S Legendarium As Neo-Platonic Mythopoeia.,
2017
University of Vermont
‘Morning Stars Of A Setting World’: Alain De Lille’S De Planctu Naturæ And Tolkien’S Legendarium As Neo-Platonic Mythopoeia., Christopher Vaccaro
Mythlore: A Journal of J.R.R. Tolkien, C.S. Lewis, Charles Williams, and Mythopoeic Literature
Examines a possible source of the imagery associated with Tolkien’s representations of divine and queenly women in Alain de Lille’s De Planctu Naturæ, or Complaint of Nature. De Lille was a 12th century theologian and poet associated with the Chartres school, and an influence on Chaucer.
‘A Warp Of Horror’: J.R.R. Tolkien’S Sub-Creations Of Evil,
2017
University of British Columbia
‘A Warp Of Horror’: J.R.R. Tolkien’S Sub-Creations Of Evil, Richard Angelo Bergen
Mythlore: A Journal of J.R.R. Tolkien, C.S. Lewis, Charles Williams, and Mythopoeic Literature
Considers Tolkien’s skilled evocation of evil and the way he manages to hold Augustinian and Manichean conceptions of evil in balance, particularly in his depiction of orcs.
J.R.R. Tolkien And The 1954 Nomination Of E.M. Forster For The Nobel Prize In Literature,
2017
University of Arizona
J.R.R. Tolkien And The 1954 Nomination Of E.M. Forster For The Nobel Prize In Literature, Dennis Wilson Wise
Mythlore: A Journal of J.R.R. Tolkien, C.S. Lewis, Charles Williams, and Mythopoeic Literature
Wise speculates on the involvement of J.R.R. Tolkien in the group nomination of E.M Forster for the Nobel Prize in Literature in 1954; he discusses not only the politics behind the nomination but reads Forster’s Howards End and A Passage to India in the light of the tension between Tolkien’s interests in nationalism and inter-racial cooperation.
Robert E. Havard: A Closer Look At The ‘Medical Inkling’ (Note),
2017
University of California, Irvine
Robert E. Havard: A Closer Look At The ‘Medical Inkling’ (Note), Sarah O’Dell
Mythlore: A Journal of J.R.R. Tolkien, C.S. Lewis, Charles Williams, and Mythopoeic Literature
A preliminary study on under-examined Inkling Robert E. Havard.
A Note On A Name (Note),
2017
(retired) University of Maryland, College Park
A Note On A Name (Note), Verlyn Flieger
Mythlore: A Journal of J.R.R. Tolkien, C.S. Lewis, Charles Williams, and Mythopoeic Literature
Discusses a possible source for the name Trotter in early drafts of The Lord of the Rings.
Letter To The Editor,
2017
Southwestern Oklahoma State University
Letter To The Editor, J. Aleksandr Wootton
Mythlore: A Journal of J.R.R. Tolkien, C.S. Lewis, Charles Williams, and Mythopoeic Literature
A reply to a point made by Andrew Lazo in his essay in Mythlore #130 about Lewis’s comments on T.S. Eliot’s The Love Song of J. Alfred Prufrock.
Tolkien’S Theology Of Beauty: Majesty, Splendour, And Transcendence In Middle-Earth By Lisa Coutras,
2017
Dallas Baptist University, TX
Tolkien’S Theology Of Beauty: Majesty, Splendour, And Transcendence In Middle-Earth By Lisa Coutras, Phillip Irving Mitchell
Mythlore: A Journal of J.R.R. Tolkien, C.S. Lewis, Charles Williams, and Mythopoeic Literature
No abstract provided.
Slave Rebellion, Fugitive Literature, And The Force Of Law,
2017
University of the Pacific
Slave Rebellion, Fugitive Literature, And The Force Of Law, Jeffrey Hole
First-Year Honors Program Research Seminars
From the Stono Rebellion in 1739 to the revolt aboard the ship Amistad in 1839, from Nat Turner’s uprising in 1831 to the raid on Harpers Ferry in 1859—on land and on sea, in U.S. territory and international spaces—slaves and abolitionist allies resisted the legal doctrines and martial enforcement of the slave system. In this presentation, we will explore how nineteenth-century literature imagined and depicted slave rebellion, particularly in the decade before the Civil War and in the aftermath of the 1850 Fugitive Slave Act. A component of the Great Compromise of 1850, the Fugitive Slave Act strengthened a set …
The Hermetic Enigma Of A Protean Poet: Gnosis And The Puritanical Error In Shakespeare's Venus And Adonis,
2017
The University of Western Ontario
The Hermetic Enigma Of A Protean Poet: Gnosis And The Puritanical Error In Shakespeare's Venus And Adonis, Luke Jennings
Electronic Thesis and Dissertation Repository
This thesis offers a study of Shakespeare’s Venus and Adonis (and by extension Lucrece) that builds on Ted Hughes’s claim that they function as two halves of a binary whole.[1] Tracing a contrapuntal surface symmetry between the poems, Hughes argues that Venus and Adonis encodes the founding myth of Catholicism and Lucrece that of Puritanism; the poems together convey the great metaphysical war between these two oppositional forces that so haunted Elizabethan England.[2] Critics have dismissed Shakespeare’s mythological references as mere “poet’s argot,” yet I shall build on Hughes’s reading of this ‘argot’ as “a sacred symbolic …
To Build The Fire Of Revolution,
2017
James Madison University
To Build The Fire Of Revolution, Stephen Roddewig
James Madison Undergraduate Research Journal (JMURJ)
Scholarly examinations of naturalism in Jack London’s 1908 short story “To Build a Fire” often overlook the influence of the socialist political movement. After surveying the American Socialist Party movement and London’s activism in “How I Became a Socialist,” this essay uses the frame of Marxist rhetorical criticism to inspect sociopolitical themes in London’s famous story. London’s critiques of Individualism in “How I Became a Socialist” parallel one of his concerns in “To Build a Fire” as his unnamed protagonist progresses through the Yukon with the larger ideals of American society and the capitalist economy guiding his actions. Although masculinity, …
Biopolitical Masochism In Marina Abramović’S The Artist Is Present,
2017
University of Nebraska - Lincoln
Biopolitical Masochism In Marina Abramović’S The Artist Is Present, Jaime Brunton
Department of English: Faculty Publications
This essay analyzes The Artist Is Present, Marina Abramović’s heavily mediatized 2010 performance at New York’s Museum of Modern Art, through the lenses of Freudian and Deleuzean concepts of masochism, specifically with respect to how the masochistic tendencies of this performance may be read in the current context of biopolitics. The essay seeks answers to questions of political import that many critical analyses of Abramović’s performance, which focus on details of the performer’s personal history, have not adequately addressed. Drawing on the documentary film Marina Abramović: The Artist Is Present (2012) that follows Abramović through the conceptualization and enactment …
Irony In The Twilight Zone: How The Series Critiqued Postwar American Culture,
2017
John Carroll University
Irony In The Twilight Zone: How The Series Critiqued Postwar American Culture, Tom Pace
Tom Pace
No abstract provided.
Exorcising Power,
2017
City University of New York (CUNY)
Exorcising Power, John Jarzemsky
Theses and Dissertations
This paper theorizes that authors, in an act I have termed “literary exorcism,” project and expunge parts of their identities that are in conflict with the overriding political agenda of their texts, into the figure of the villain. Drawing upon theories of power put forth by Judith Butler, I argue that this sort of projection arises in reaction to dominant ideas and institutions, but that authors find ways to manipulate this process over time. By examining a broad cross-section of English-language literature over several centuries, this phenomenon and its evolution can be observed, as well as the means by which …
Claudia Rankine’S Citizen And South African Literature: Comparing And Contrasting Racism In The Us And South African Context [Literature],
2017
CUNY La Guardia Community College
Claudia Rankine’S Citizen And South African Literature: Comparing And Contrasting Racism In The Us And South African Context [Literature], Demetrios Kapetanakos
Open Educational Resources
ENG295 “World Literatures Written in English” is the capstone course for the Writing and Literature major. Students in their final year at LaGuardia take the course before many of them move on to English programs at Hunter, Queens, Brooklyn, and City Colleges. This section of the course focused on South African literature from right before the fall of Apartheid (1990) through the present. Throughout the semester, we discussed the question of individual responsibility in relation to the readings, particularly in Pumla Gobodo-Madikizela’s A Human Being Died That Night and JM Coetzee’s Disgrace. These particular texts brought up questions of …
