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Breaking The Pattern: Alan Garner's The Owl Service And The Mabinogion, Sarah Beach Jan 1994

Breaking The Pattern: Alan Garner's The Owl Service And The Mabinogion, Sarah Beach

Mythlore: A Journal of J.R.R. Tolkien, C.S. Lewis, Charles Williams, and Mythopoeic Literature

Examines how Garner’s The Owl Service reflects events of the Mabinogion in modern terms. Pays particular attention to issues of parental possessiveness, control and expectation, and the need to break “deterministic patterns.”


Artists' Comments, Patrick Wynne, Paula Disante, Sarah Beach Jan 1994

Artists' Comments, Patrick Wynne, Paula Disante, Sarah Beach

Mythlore: A Journal of J.R.R. Tolkien, C.S. Lewis, Charles Williams, and Mythopoeic Literature

No abstract provided.


The Witch Woman: A Recurring Motif In Recent Fantasy Writing For Young Readers, John Warren Stewig Jan 1994

The Witch Woman: A Recurring Motif In Recent Fantasy Writing For Young Readers, John Warren Stewig

Mythlore: A Journal of J.R.R. Tolkien, C.S. Lewis, Charles Williams, and Mythopoeic Literature

Thematic analysis of the figure of the witch woman (incorporating both good and evil versions) in recent examples of epic fantasy for children and young adults.


75 In 25, Glen Goodknight Jan 1994

75 In 25, Glen Goodknight

Mythlore: A Journal of J.R.R. Tolkien, C.S. Lewis, Charles Williams, and Mythopoeic Literature

No abstract provided.


The Gift, Douglas A. Rossman Jan 1994

The Gift, Douglas A. Rossman

The Mythic Circle

No abstract provided.


Peter Pan: Disney’S Adaptation Of J.M. Barrie’S Original Work, Brett T. Mcquade Jan 1994

Peter Pan: Disney’S Adaptation Of J.M. Barrie’S Original Work, Brett T. Mcquade

Mythlore: A Journal of J.R.R. Tolkien, C.S. Lewis, Charles Williams, and Mythopoeic Literature

Points to the differences between Barrie’s original Peter Pan, and Disney’s animated version of 1953. Contends Disney did the most damage to the character of Mr. Darling and thus “disregard[ed] Barrie’s primary motive for creating Peter Pan.”


Censoring The World Riddle, Tim Callahan Jan 1994

Censoring The World Riddle, Tim Callahan

Mythlore: A Journal of J.R.R. Tolkien, C.S. Lewis, Charles Williams, and Mythopoeic Literature

Detailed examination of the efforts of Christian fundamentalists to censor fantasy films and books. Asserts that “one must give up the right to control as the price of entry” into Faërie. Fundamentalist ideologies do not allow for that “suspension of judgment” necessary to confront the World Riddle, or Faërie.


Anne Sexton And Anima Transformations: Transformations As A Critique Of The Psychology Of Love In Grimm’S Fairy Tales, John Hruschka Jan 1994

Anne Sexton And Anima Transformations: Transformations As A Critique Of The Psychology Of Love In Grimm’S Fairy Tales, John Hruschka

Mythlore: A Journal of J.R.R. Tolkien, C.S. Lewis, Charles Williams, and Mythopoeic Literature

Uses “Jung’s theories of anima as a critical framework [...] to demonstrate that Sexton’s poems [...] critique the psychology of romantic love that informs the Grimm Brothers’ tales and the impact of that ideology on women.”


Tolkien’S Word-Hord Onlēac, Ricky L. Thompson Jan 1994

Tolkien’S Word-Hord Onlēac, Ricky L. Thompson

Mythlore: A Journal of J.R.R. Tolkien, C.S. Lewis, Charles Williams, and Mythopoeic Literature

Explores “the stylized and conventional speeches” of Beowulf and the Green Knight as they “provide analogues for Tolkien’s heroes in The Lord of the Rings.” Contends that analysis of these speeches enhances awareness of many aspects of these heroes.


An Inklings Bibliography (51), Joe R. Christopher, Wayne G. Hammond Jan 1994

An Inklings Bibliography (51), Joe R. Christopher, Wayne G. Hammond

Mythlore: A Journal of J.R.R. Tolkien, C.S. Lewis, Charles Williams, and Mythopoeic Literature

Entries 42–59 in this series are written by Hammond (Tolkien material) and Christopher (Lewis and other material). See Hammond, Wayne G., for one later entry in this series.


Tales Newly Told, Alexei Kondratiev Jan 1994

Tales Newly Told, Alexei Kondratiev

Mythlore: A Journal of J.R.R. Tolkien, C.S. Lewis, Charles Williams, and Mythopoeic Literature

Beagle, Peter S. The Innkeeper’s Song.


Letters, Rhona Beare, Wayne Hammond Jan 1994

Letters, Rhona Beare, Wayne Hammond

Mythlore: A Journal of J.R.R. Tolkien, C.S. Lewis, Charles Williams, and Mythopoeic Literature

No abstract provided.


Reviews, Paula Disante, Nancy-Lou Patterson Jan 1994

Reviews, Paula Disante, Nancy-Lou Patterson

Mythlore: A Journal of J.R.R. Tolkien, C.S. Lewis, Charles Williams, and Mythopoeic Literature

The 1994 J.R.R. Tolkien Calendar. Illustrated by Michael Kaluta. Reviewed by Paula DiSante.

Spiritual Writings. Dorothy L. Sayers. Reviewed by Nancy-Lou Patterson.

Dorothy L. Sayers: The Centenary Celebration. Alzina Stone Dale, editor. Reviewed by Nancy-Lou Patterson.