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Legends For A New Land: Guest Of Honor Speech At The 19th Annual Mythopoeic Conference, Urusula K. Le Guin

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

Guest of Honor speech, Mythcon 19. An account of how Le Guin was finally able to write Always Coming Home, using not an imaginary world but the transfigured Napa Valley of her childhood. Acknowledges her debt to Native American worldview known through its myths.

Roger Lancelyn Green: A Personal Memoir, Jessica Yates

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

Personal reminiscences of the author’s interactions with Roger Lancelyn Green

Reclaiming The Modern World For The Imagination: Guest Of Honor Speech At The 19th Annual Mythopoeic Conference, Brian Attebery

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

Guest of Honor speech, Mythcon 19. Defines indigenous fantasy—fantasy in a contemporary, “real-world” setting—and illustrates its techniques as demonstrated in Wizard of the Pigeons and Little, Big.

An Inklings' Bibliography (33), Joe R. Christopher

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

Resuming after a hiatus, a series of bibliographies of primary and secondary works concerning the Inklings.

Tolkien And Christian Concepts Of Evil: Apocalypse And Privation, John L. Treloar S.J.

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

Argues that Tolkien’s conception of evil in Arda comes from two Christian sources: its personification (as in Revelation), and medieval concepts (primarily from Augustine through Aquinas) of evil as privation or corruption of initial good.

Quenti Lambardillion, Paul Nolan Hyde

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

No abstract provided.

Tales Newly Told, Alexei Kondratiev

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

Clough, B.W. The Name of the Sun. Lee, Tanith. The White Serpent.

Editorial Opening, Glen Goodknight, Sarah Beach

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

No abstract provided.

Reviews, Nancy-Lou Patterson

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

Jack: C.S. Lewis and His Times. George Sayer. Reviewed by Nancy-Lou Patterson.

Mythical and Fabulous Creatures: A Source Book and Research Guide. Malcom South, ed. Reviewed by Nancy-Lou Patterson.

"The Hobbit As A Part Of The Red Book Of Westmarch", Kristin Thompson

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

Sees the conception of the hobbits and The Red Book of Westmarch as crucial in allowing Tolkien to “contain his inventive process” and prevent infinite proliferation of unfinished material.

Husbands And Gods As Shadowbrutes: Beauty And The Beast From Apuleius To C.S. Lewis, Gwenyth Hood

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

Discusses the Beauty and the Beast theme from Apuleius’s tale of Amor and Psyche through versions from Africa, India, North America, and Europe. Analyzes Lewis’s handling of the theme in Till We Have Faces.

J.R.R. Tolkien: Narnian Exile - Part Ii, Joe R. Christopher

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

Analyzes a number of explanations proposed by biographers and others for Tolkien’s antipathy to Lewis’s Narnia stories.

Letters, Thomas M. Egan, Guthrie E. Janssen, Pauline Baynes

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

No abstract provided.

Sympathy For The Devil, Elizabeth Wickham Stephens

Theses & Honors Papers

When one first mentions John Milton's Paradise Lost, one is reminded of the fall of Adam and Eve. Yet for the reader who encounters this epic poem for the first time, a surprise is waiting. Milton centers his poem around Satan, the fallen leader of the band of angels who rebel from heaven. Through his verse, Milton explores the thoughts and motives of Satan, leaving the reader with an astonishing reaction: Satan is a pitiable character. From the war in heaven, to the regions of hell, to the Garden of Eden, Milton closely follows this downfallen character. He first emphasizes …

Our Paper 12/1988, Our Paper

Our Paper (1983-1992)

No abstract provided.

Desire: An Essential Element In Wallace Stevens' Poetry, Barry Gary

Masters Theses & Specialist Projects

Man naturally pursues that which brings pleasure, and Wallace Stevens recognizes this inescapable desire, exploring it fully in his poetry, prose, and letters and depending upon it to build the foundation for many, if not most, of his major themes. For Stevens, one's world evolves through the use of poetry, and this world, complete with jubilations of fulfilled desire and frequent despair as illusions of fulfillment are destroyed, chronicles the life of every man. As a result, different kinds of desire and different attempts at satisfying these desires emerge as one reads Stevens--three of which will be advanced in this …

Our Paper 11/1988, Our Paper

Our Paper (1983-1992)

No abstract provided.

Swinburne's Speech To The Royal Literary Fund, May 2, 1866, Terry L. Meyers

Arts & Sciences Articles

" Algernon Charles Swinburne made so few formal presentations to any kind of audience that only a single public one, so far as I know, is recorded- his reply to a toast at the Royal Literary Fund Dinner of May 2, 1866.' Scholars have thought they had no access to the speech, for, although Edmund Gosse prints a part of it in his biography of Swinburne (along with a slightly distorted account of its presentation) and other biographers include other bits and pieces, it has, to all intents and purposes, dropped from sight; only those able to see the papers …

The Sense Of Time In J.R.R. Tolkien's The Lord Of The Rings, Kevin Aldrich

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

Discusses the importance of time, death, and/or immortality for various races of Middle-earth.

C.S. Lewis And The Lion: Primitivism And Archetype In The Chronicles Of Narnia, Sue Matheson

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

A reading of the Narnian chronicles as fantasy, not Christian allegory, and notes “the tension between allegory and symbol” in the Chronicles. Sees the character of Aslan, and his use of magic, as the “primordial image” which gives the fantasy its power.

Going North And West To Watch The Dragons Dance: Norse And Celtic Elements In Ursula Le Guin's Earthsea Trilogy, Christine K. Thompson

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

Sees the world-view of Earthsea, as well as much of the symbolism, characteristic of pre-Christian Nordic and Celtic thought. Focus on present life rather than future is a significant theme.

A Philologist At The North Pole: J.R.R. Tolkien And The Father Christmas Letters, Paul Nolan Hyde

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

Analyzes some elements of The Father Christmas Letters to show the degree of perfectionism and philological logic that were used to create verisimilitude, even for such lesser elements of Tolkien’s oeuvre.

"Dangerous As A Guide To Deeds": Politics In The Fiction Of J.R.R. Tolkien, William Blackburn

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

Analyzes elements of political philosophy as espoused in The Hobbit and The Lord of the Rings. Sees stewardship and the individual vs. the group as significant political themes, as well as distrust of democracy, technology, and potentially avaricious rulers.

Tales Newly Told, Alexei Kondratiev

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

Bishop, Michael. Unicorn Mountain. Paxson, Diana. The White Raven.

Letters, Wade Tarzia, Jan Noble, David Doughan, Benjamin Urrutia, Tom Loback

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

No abstract provided.

J.R.R. Tolkien, Narnian Exile, Joe Christopher

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

Analyzes a number of explanations proposed by biographers and others for Tolkien’s antipathy to Lewis’s Narnia stories.

The Rhetorical Similarities Of C.S. Lewis And Bertrand Russell, Don King

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

Analyzes the writings of the philosophically opposed Lewis and Russell to show how their similar use of rhetorical devices gives their popular writings a similarity of tone.

Lionlight, Mindi M. Reid

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

No abstract provided.

Reviews, Glen H. Goodknight, Pat Reynolds, Nancy-Lou Patterson

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

The Annotated Hobbit. J.R.R. Tolkien. Reviewed by Glen GoodKnight.

JACK: C.S. Lewis and His Times. George Sayer. Reviewed by Glen GoodKnight.

The 1989 J.R.R. Tolkien Calendar. Roger Garland. Reviewed by Glen GoodKnight.

Exploration of a Drowned Landscape. Charles Thomas. Reviewed by Pat Reynolds.

The Temple of Sulis at Bath. Barry Cunliffe and Peter Davenport. Reviewed by Pat Reynolds.

The Princess and the Goblin. George MacDonald. Reviewed by Nancy-Lou Patterson.

George MacDonald: The Seeking Heart. Kathy Triggs. Reviewed by Nancy-Lou Patterson.

Lord Dunsany: The Potency Of Words And The Wonder Of Things, Angelee Sailer Anderson

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

Analyzes Dunsany’s technique, particularly his prose style and use of archaic language, to demonstrate how his fantasies evoke the “sense of wonder.”