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Sin And Guilt In The Fiction Of John Gregory Dunne, Michael Adams

Publications and Research

John Gregory Dunne depicts his characters' obsession with guilt in his first two novels: True Confessions (1977) and Dutch Shea, Jr. (1982).

A Light Amid The Darkness: An Analysis Of Sin And Its Effects On The Individual In The Scarlet Letter And The Marble Faun, Tina L. Townsend Winings

Masters Theses

No abstract provided.

The Great Task : Prosody And Songs Of Innocence, Biff Faunce

University of the Pacific Theses and Dissertations

While eschewing a strict definition on the didacticism of Blake's imaginative vision, the following four analyses could be said to revolve around three general themes. These are: (1) that Songs of Innocence engage in a dialectic, much of their appeal deriving from the tension created between the co-existence of so-called qualities of "innocence" and "experience"; (2) that each one is an individual attempt to reconcile these, as well as other, oppositions; and (3) that such a reconciliation is hierarchical, usually concluding on a transcendent or visionary plane. The first three center on the text and metrical phenomena. In "The Ecchoing …

Editorial, Glen Goodknight

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

No abstract provided.

A Critical Approach To Fantasy With Application To The Lord Of The Rings, William Stoddard

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

Analyzes The Lord of the Rings through Northrop Frye’s theories as set forth in The Anatomy of Criticism, placing it in the Romance category and finding examples of the five modes throughout the work. Applies findings to fantasy in general.

Gollum: A Misunderstood Hero, David Callaway

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

Considers the question of where Gollum fits within the overall Christian framework of Middle-earth, and proposes that he is “an emblem of the internal dilemma faced by all creatures in a Christian-based cosmology [...] each must struggle with his own inherent evil.” Argues that Gollum, still retaining some goodness and potential after holding the Ring for 478 years, was a hero who consciously chose to destroy the Ring at the end.

Invasion From Eternity: Time And Myth In Middle-Earth, Sally Bartlett

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

Compares the creation story and history of Middle-earth and of our world as set forth in the Bible, and shows “how every age of Middle-earth mirrors the Christian tale through [...] creation, degeneration, sacrifice, and renewal” without descending to allegory.

Mythopoesis, Sarah Beach

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

Studies the process of creating fantasy worlds, or sub-creation, with observations from several authors including Le Guin, Lewis, and Tolkien.

A Linguist Looks At Tolkien's Elvish, Thomas S. Donahue

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

A somewhat playful look at Tolkien’s invented languages, deducing some of the rules for evolution from Proto-Eldarian to Quenya then Sindarin and offering possible derivations for a number of hobbit words and names. Donahue’s conclusion is that Tolkien’s inventive sense was “puckish” and sprang from “a penchant for drollery.” Followed by Comments by Paul Nolan Hyde rebutting a number of Donahue’s points, a Reply by Donahue, and a Rejoinder by Hyde.

Reviews, Benjamin Urrutia, Nancy-Lou Patterson

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

Star Wars, Episode VI: Return of the Jedi. Lucasfilm, 20th Century Fox. Reviewed by Benjamin Urrutia.

And God Came In. Lyle W. Dorsett. Reviewed by Nancy-Lou Patterson.

Charles Williams, Poet of Theology. Glen Cavaliero. Reviewed by Nancy-Lou Patterson.

VII: An Anglo-American Literary Review. Vol. 4. Reviewed by Nancy-Lou Patterson.

A Reference Guide. Ruth Tanis Youngberg, Dorothy L. Sayers. Reviewed by Nancy-Lou Patterson.

The Little Kingdom: Some Considerations And A Map, R.C. Walker

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

Features a map of the locations in Farmer Giles of Ham, and discusses correspondences with actual locations.

Letters, Donne E. Puckle, Susan Owens

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

No abstract provided.

An Inklings' Bibliography (26), Joe R. Christopher

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

A series of bibliographies of primary and secondary works concerning the Inklings.

The Feminine Principle In Tolkien, Melanie Rawls

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

Explores the interaction of Masculine and Feminine principles (gender as opposed to sex) in Tolkien’s Middle-earth, showing how the balance of the principles in a character is an important factor in his or her place in the struggle of good and evil, evil resulting in many cases from an imbalance of these principles.

The Legend Of The Grail And War In Heaven: From Medieval To Modern Romance, Judith Kollmann

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

Compares War in Heaven to its literary sources, particularly Le Morte Darthur. Notes the ways the former incorporates specific aspects of the Grail legend, as well as the differences Williams introduced to adapt the legend for a twentieth-century novel.

The Outer Dimension Of Myth: Guest Of Honor Address, C.S. Kilby

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

No abstract provided.

The Evocation Of Good In Tolkien, Peter Lowentrout

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

Counters criticism of fantasy as morally negligible or as leading to morbid escapism; instead applies Tolkien’s theory of eucatastrophe and defends the “clarity and vigor” of his vision of good in his fantasy.

Letters, Margaret Purdy, Lee Speth, Alexei Kondratiev, Benjamin Urrutia

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

No abstract provided.

Cavalier Treatment, Lee Speth

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

No abstract provided.

The Official Response, Darrell Schweitzer

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

No abstract provided.

Mythopoeisis, Sarah Beach

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

Discusses the significance of choosing names in fantasy, drawing on statements from Le Guin and Tolkien.

An Inklings Bibliography (27), Joe R. Christopher

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

A series of bibliographies of primary and secondary works concerning the Inklings.

Scottish Poetry 1981, Roderick Watson

Studies in Scottish Literature

No abstract provided.

Brief Notice

Studies in Scottish Literature

No abstract provided.

Writing Creatively In First Grade, Susan Grant Raye

UNF Graduate Theses and Dissertations

Learning to write their own words increases students' success in learning to read, provides practice in thinking skills, increases their self-concept and provides early positive attitudes about writing.

However, most writing done in first grade classrooms today consists mainly of copying from the blackboard. This is a tedious and boring task for first graders, and gives them bad attitudes about writing as they begin their school careers. Many teachers don't require young students to write their own words because of the students' inability to spell words and form grammatically correct sentences. However, if a teacher is accepting of the students' …

How I Spent My Summer Vacation: Three Essays On Place And Meaning, Reed Evan Richards

Theses and Dissertations

This thesis consists of three personal essays and a postface, in part experiments in genre, mode, and structure, and in large part explorations of the meanings of specific places in culture and on the self-definition of the observer-writer, the first essay being set in Florida and centered at Disneyworld; the second consisting of fragments of observations along the route from St. Augustine to Washington, D.C., and ending with a brief fiction; the third, a speculative/anti-speculative rumination over many things, including meaning, death, faith, and enshrinement, and set in Illinois, Missouri, and South Africa; and the postface a theoretical/descriptive theoretical defense …

Narnia And The Seven Deadly Sins, Don King

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

Gives a brief history of the “seven deadly sins” in Christianity, and of Lewis’s knowledge of them as indicated in his non-Narnian works. Argues that each book in the Chronicles of Narnia “seems to portray one deadly sin above all others.”

Silent Commands? Frodo And Gollum At The Cracks Of Doom, Robert A. Hall Jr.

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

Analyzes the key scene at the Cracks of Doom, which the reader sees through Sam’s viewpoint, for hints as to the powers of the bearer of the Ring and his ability to command others. Considers similar scenes from the Bible, Beowulf, and Chanson de Roland. Concludes that Frodo issued Gollum a “silent command” to throw himself into the pit with the Ring.

Beneath That Ancient Roof: The House As Symbol In Dorothy L. Sayers' Busman's Honeymoon, Nancy-Lou Patterson

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

Examines the symbolic significance of houses, especially Talboys, the house in which Peter Wimsey and Harriet Vane spend their honeymoon.

Editorial, Glen Goodknight

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

No abstract provided.