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The Many Faces Of Herosim In Tolkien, Edith Crowe

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

With a Jungian slant, groups Tolkien’s heroes from The Lord of the Rings and The Silmarillion into several types—assertive (tragic or epic), submissive (from Christian models), and the group or fellowship as hero.

Lights And Shadows - 1983, University Of North Alabama

Lights and Shadows

Art and Literature Magazine

An American Myth : James Dickey's "The Zodiac", Arthur Gordon Van Ness

Master's Theses

In the brief explanatory preface of "The Zodiac" Dickey says: "Its twelve sections are the story of a drunken and perhaps dying Dutch poet who returns to his home in Amsterdam after years of travel and tries desperately to relate himself, by means of stars, to the universe." The question immediately arises as to how a Dutch poet, and particularly one living in the Old World city of Amsterdam, relates to an American myth. What, in other words, does a Dutchman returning to his home in Holland nave to do with the New World?

A Taxonomical Study Of Literary Criticism, Joanne M. Shroba-Wehner

Theses

This paper explores the foundational influence of Plato and Aristotle on the development of literary criticism, tracing how their contrasting philosophies have shaped Western literary theory through successive historical periods. Plato’s skepticism toward mimetic art and his emphasis on divine inspiration set the stage for a long tradition of Platonic influence, later adapted by thinkers such as Sir Philip Sidney, Wordsworth, and Shelley. These Neoplatonists reinterpret Plato’s ideas, often granting greater value to poetic imagination and emotional resonance.

In contrast, Aristotle’s systematic approach to poetics—centered on imitation, catharsis, and structured drama—formed the bedrock for classical and neoclassical criticism. His ideas …

Anvil Of Roses, Thomas Hornsby Ferril

Ahsahta Press

Thomas Hornsby Ferril, 1896–1988, was a major figure in literary circles of the American West for nearly half a century. Winner of the 1926 Yale Younger Poets award for High Passage, and honored by such poets as Carl Sandburg and Robert Frost, Ferril created poetry that is musical, metrical, and meant to be read aloud. Anvil of Roses was Ferril’s sixth collection of poetry and demonstrates his comprehension of and love for the landscape and mythology of the West. With clarity, precision, and, above all, music, Ferril's work speaks of love, war, the world, and all things human. Ahsahta …

The Clock Of Moss, Judson Crews

Ahsahta Press

The Clock of Moss is a work of the Southwest, which Crews introduces to us in its ancient setting, land that “has altered …[but] it seems never altered.” The first section of the book, “In the Explorer’s Hand,” introduces the natural world and the human communities of the land, from Penitentes to farmers to Native Americans. The poems arrive through a range of characters and the landscapes they inhabit—characters who would be at home in the work of Faulkner or O’Connor except, as one of them says, “…naked with a / bandolier and a six-shooter/ You would know it was …

Nothing More Real Than Nothing: The Unnamable As Self-Annihilating Fiction, Shawn Rosenheim

Honors Papers

Nature abhors nothing; it is the mind which cannot bear to live in a state of suspension, in absence, in a vacuum. The very existence of fiction testifies to man's need for intricate models through which he may fashion and explore his life. In the last eighty years, a great deal of research has been devoted to discovering the ways in which fictions are structured; the ways, that is, in which literature replaces chaos not with content, but with form; with elaborate verbal webs that hold in abeyance the hollow of life without language. Russian formalism, mythcriticism like Northrop Frye's, …

Products And Processes: Levels Of Art In Pale Fire, Jon Hamilton

Honors Papers

Vladimir Nabokov, as critics have often pointed out, neatly contained his greatest concerns within the realm of his twin obsessions, books and butterflies. In many ways, in fact, his two passionate interests proved redundant--an overlapping of which he grew increasingly aware during his life. According to Nabokov, a work of art exists at the imaginary point where language and lepidoptery intersect. Here, he says, "there is a kind of merging between the two things, between the precision of poetry and the excitement of pure science." But perhaps Nabokov best described the merger when he expressed in one medium the importance …

A Synthesis Of Theme And Style: "Prelude" As A Turning Point In The Fiction Of Katherine Mansfield, Peggy Orenstein

Honors Papers

Katherine Mansfield's contribution to modern British fiction has been virtually ignored in recent years; the two major periods of critical attention to her work were in the 1920's (right after her death) and the early 1950's. Critics of both groups have given extensive consideration to Mansfield's experimentation--independent of Virginia Woolf and James Joyce--with interior monologue, shifting narrative perspective and moments of revelation However, analyses of Mansfield have predominantly ignored her concerns as a woman writer. Mansfield examines women's roles and women's sexuality in nearly all of her stories; she probes women's circumstances from their own perspective and shows the effect …

The Child Is Mother Of The Woman: Parenting And Self-Parenting In Emma And Middlemarch, Andrea E. Lehman

Honors Papers

In order to examine the significance of "parent-child" relationships vis á vis the growing autonomy of Emma Woodhouse and Dorothea Brooke, we must first look at them as daughters in relation to parents, real or surrogate, ineffectual or influential. Next, to what extent do these two women act as counsellors and parents for siblings and friends, and how does their attitude to that role change? Last, both these novels feature heroines whose husbands or future husbands are much older than they are, and who assume parental roles with them. How does each heroine relate to this father/lover figure? Is he …

2. Listening Woman, Screenplay Draft By Lionel E. Siegel (July 1983)., Lionel E. Siegel

Listening Woman Screenplays

This screenplay draft is a revised version written by Lionel E. and dated, July 28, 1983.

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Studies in Scottish Literature

No abstract provided.

Tradition And Transformation In The Poetry Of Robert Henryson, Evelyn S. Newlyn

Studies in Scottish Literature

No abstract provided.

"Not The Truth": The Doubleness Of Hogg's Confessions And The Eighteenth-Century Tradition, David Oakleaf

Studies in Scottish Literature

No abstract provided.

The Criticism Of Fiction In Tait's Edinburgh Magazine, 1832-1850, Odile Boucher

Studies in Scottish Literature

No abstract provided.

The Distinctive Character Of Douglas's Eneados, Florence Ridley

Studies in Scottish Literature

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The Social Ethos Of Mackenzie's The Man Of Feeling, R. Peter Burnham

Studies in Scottish Literature

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"Syne Maryit I A Marchand" Dunbar's Manit Wemen And Their Audience, Shaun Mccarthy

Studies in Scottish Literature

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Allusions To Dr. Faustus In James Hogg's A Justified Sinner, David Groves

Studies in Scottish Literature

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The Complete Macdiarmid, Ruth Mcquillan

Studies in Scottish Literature

No abstract provided.

Scottish Fiction 1980-81: The Importance Of Alasdair Gray's Lanark, Douglas Gifford

Studies in Scottish Literature

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Contributors

Studies in Scottish Literature

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Book Reviews

Studies in Scottish Literature

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Editorial, Glen Goodknight

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

No abstract provided.

The Artist As Magician: Yeats, Joyce, And Tolkien, Dominic Manganiello

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

Examines the significance of symbolism of transcendence in several works by Yeats and Joyce, and ties this to theories of consolation and eucatastrophe in Tolkien’s “On Fairy-stories.” Finds Tolkien’s theory of sub-creation more fulfilling than their view of the artist as a creator.

The Nature Of Dreams In The Lord Of The Rings, Karl Schoor

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

Lists the dreams in The Lord of the Rings and speculates on their nature, origin, and purpose. Considers how they enhance the plot and tone.

The Toad-Sister, Alice P. Kenny

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

No abstract provided.

Reviews, Nancy-Lou Patterson, Benjamin Urrutia, Roderick Mcgillis, Lee Speth

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

Studies in the Literary Imagination. Vol. XIV, No. 2. Fall, 1981. Georgia State University. Ed. by Rayond Carter Sutherland. Reviewed by Nancy-Lou Patterson.

The Mists of Avalon. Marion Zimmer Bradley. Reviewed by Benjamin Urrutia.

The Harmony Within: The Spiritual Vision of George MacDonald. Rolland Hein. Reviewed by Roderick McGillis.

C.S. Lewis and the Church of Rome. Christopher Derrick. Reviewed by Lee Speth.

Between Heaven and Hell. Peter Kreeft. Reviewed by Nancy-Lou Patterson.

New Myths For Old, Part Ii, Alex Kondratiev

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

THIS IS A TWO-PART ARTICLE. IN ORDER TO READ OR DOWNLOAD THE OTHER PART, FOLLOW THE LINK AT THE END OF THIS ABSTRACT.

Discusses two of the noted forgers of ancient Celtic documents who influenced the Celtic Revival of the nineteenth century and whose inventions influence our perceptions of Celtic literature and mythology (and fantasy writers) even today.

Part 1:https://dc.swosu.edu/mythlore/vol10/iss1/10

October Hymn, Karla Rusa

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

No abstract provided.