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Cavalier Treatment: Those Shakespearean Hags, Lee Speth

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

This is part 1 of a 2 part column.

Examines the usual critical reaction to the witches in Macbeth (that the Elizabethans believed sincerely in witches) by going back to Shakespeare’s source in Holinshed’s Chronicles. Part II adds evidence from Henry IV 1&2.

For part 2, go to https://dc.swosu.edu/mythlore/vol7/iss2/6

Guardaci Ben: The Visionary Woman In C.S. Lewis' Chronicles Of Narnia And That Hideous Strength, Nancy-Lou Patterson

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.

Examines the characters of visionary women—what Esther Harding calls the femme inspiratrice—in Lewis’s fiction. Part one focuses on Jane in That Hideous Strength. Part two focuses on Lucy in the Chronicles of Narnia.

Part 2: https://dc.swosu.edu/mythlore/vol6/iss4/7

Reviews, Nancy-Lou Patterson, George Colvin

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

The Hills of Faraway, A Guide to Fantasy. Diana Waggoner. Reviewed by Nancy-Lou Patterson.

The Whimsical Christian. Dorothy L. Sayers. Reviewed by Nancy-Lou Patterson.

Images of Salvation in the Fiction of C. S. Lewis. Clyde S. Kilby. Reviewed by Nancy-Lou Patterson.

The Taste for the Other - The Social and Ethical Thought of C. S. Lewis. Gilbert Meilaender. Reviewed by Nancy-Lou Patterson.

Maker and Craftsman, The Story of Dorothy L. Sayers. Alzina Stone Dale. Reviewed by Nancy-Lou Patterson.

Dragondrums. Anne McCaffrey. Reviewed by George Colvin.

An Introduction to Elvish. Edited by Jim Allen. Reviewed by George Colvin.

Kyria Sophia, Gracia Fay Ellwood

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

No abstract provided.

Consort, Virgin, Adventurer, Gracia Fay Ellwood

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

Proposes an additional term beyond Consort and Virgin for anima figures—Adventurer. As examples, considers Inanna from Sumerian myth at length, and several other figures from myth and legend and from Tolkien, Williams, and Lewis more briefly.

"If You Call Me Grandmother, That Will Do", Roderick Mcgillis

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

Studies an enigmatic character in MacDonald’s The Princess and the Goblin, the old woman in the tower. Notes some of the explanations offered for whom she represents, and discusses her function as embodying the reconciliation of opposites.

William Morris's The Wood Beyond The World: The Victorian World Vs. The Mythic Eternities, Clarence Wolfshohl

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

Analysis of the character of the maiden in The Wood Beyond the World. Notes that as a woman both chaste and possessed of wizardly powers—like her decidedly unchaste counterpart, the Mistress—she engenders a degree of tension and uncertainty until the end of the novel. Sees Morris’s attitudes toward sex and society in terms of his Victorian background.

The Lady Of La Salette, Gracia Fay Ellwood

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

No abstract provided.

Head Versus Heart In Dorothy L. Sayers' Gaudy Night, Margaret P. Hannay

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

Contends that in Gaudy Night “Sayers has so carefully woven together the setting, the theme and the plot that the mystery itself provides a major part of the commentary on the theme of intellectual integrity.” Another theme is the achievement of the “delicate balance” between head and heart.

Untitled Poem, James C. Walker

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

No abstract provided.

Dear Mistress Ellwood, Norman S. Power, Anne Scott, Frederic Luther, Edgar L. Chapman, George H. Thomson, Margaret L. Carter, Margaret R. Purdy, Ruth Berman, Valerie Hughes Protopapas, Mary Janis Johnson

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

No abstract provided.

Anima Figures In A Demonic Comedy In The Lewis Tradition: E.E.Y. Hales's Chariot Of Fire, Edgar L. Chapman

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

Calls Hales’s fantasy “a theological novel in the traditions of Lewis’s Ransom novels and The Great Divorce.” Sees Lewis as a “link between Hales’ novel and Christian poetic traditions in the epics of Dante and Milton.”

Two Faces Of Eve: Galadriel And Shelob As Anima Figures, Peter Damien Goselin

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

Examines Galadriel as a Jungian anima figure, and Shelob as her opposite, the shadow anima, in The Lord of the Rings. Further, “each characteristic of Galadriel and its perversion in Shelob can be related to the characteristics of the anima.”

Mrs. Moore As The Queen Of Underland, Michael C. Kotzin

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

Suggests that the character of the Queen of Underland in The Silver Chair was unconsciously based on C.S. Lewis’s companion Mrs. Janie Moore.

Creative Imagination In Joyce Cary's Trilogies, E. Christian

Loma Linda University Electronic Theses, Dissertations & Projects

This thesis describes Joyce Cary's theories of creative imagination and how the characters in his two trilogies reflect those theories. To Cary, creative imagination is essential for society's improvement. He believes that everyone--not just artists and writers--can have creative imagination, and in his novels he shows the results of living with and without it.

Joyce Cary was born in 1888, in Ireland. His mother died when he was nine, but his close-knit family gave him the security he needed to develop his creativity. As a boy he voraciously read adventure stories and led a gang. Throughout his life he dealt …

The Theory Of Contraries In Robert Frost's Narratives, Peggy E. Wahlen

Loma Linda University Electronic Theses, Dissertations & Projects

Robert Frost's theory of contraries pervades both his short, lyric poems and his longer, narrative poems. This theory, which is the idea that life consists of two opposing elements, is recognized by the critics to be one of the most common themes running through his lyric poems. However, the narrative poems are almost exclusively approached critically from the standpoint of form and style.

This thesis shows that the theory of contraries is an important concept in the narratives. The framework of Frost's theory has been applied to three areas pertinent to his treatment of the men and women in his …

Spring Into Summer : A Novel, Jeff Wuorio

Senior Scholar Papers

Spring into Summer is a novel based on my experiences as a student living in London for a year. The central character, an American under-graduate student studying history, attempts to complete a piece of work by his older brother who is killed in a car accident several months prior to his brother's departure for England. The narrative traces the younger brother's efforts and eventual failure to work on the history; in so doing, he also fails to become more like his older brother whom he greatly loved and admired. Thus, a doppelganger, or "Double" of sorts is used.

Most of …

High Anxiety, Andy Plante

Senior Scholar Papers

No abstract provided.

After The Parade, Robert Benson

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Three Of Faulkner's Aberrant Women, Ginny Powell

Masters Theses & Specialist Projects

Because human nature is so often irrational and passional, William Faulkner many times offers portraits of people who are the antithesis of rationality and morality. Thus, it is not surprising to observe Faulkner's extensive use of aberrant, or deviant, characters, especially aberrant women, since the author generally associates this group with the volatile, passional elements in life. These disturbingly abnormal women possess as a group certain characteristics that become a remarkably consistent pattern in the Faulknerian canon.

Faulkner's aberrant women invariably have at least one trait in common: they become destructive forces that bring about the ruin of others and …

Eliot's Use Of Contemporary Political Events In Middlemarch, Sara Winstead

Masters Theses & Specialist Projects

In the consideration of most critics and scholars. Middlemarch by George Eliot is a catalog of the Victorian era, depicting with clarity the concerns of the period as they appeared in all levels of social, economic, and political life. Although the form of the book is that of the novel, dealing primarily with the development of characters and their relationships, the author includes a sufficient number of references to contemporary political events to merit in-depth study of the purpose of these references. This paper locates and explains the references to contemporary political events in Middlemarch, it discusses the ways …

Ivy Leaves, 1978-1979, Ivy Leaves Editorial Staff

Ivy Leaves

The 1979 edition of the Anderson College journal of art and literature, Ivy Leaves.

The names of the known editors for this issue of Ivy Leaves were Karen Henderson, Jeff Brown, Harold Rice, Dana Shaw, Kevin Sighter, Roger Turner, Dennis James, Dr. Ray P. Rust, Dave Everett, and Dr. A. Frank Bonner. Cover art was by Sandra Weathers and Mary Shooter.

Yeats And The Noh Drama, Elizabeth Rogers Hayes

Archived Theses and Dissertations

No abstract provided.

Two Anti-Heroes: Leopold Bloom And Sai'd Aboul NaḥS, Samia Mehrez

Archived Theses and Dissertations

No abstract provided.

Language Motivation And Language Needs Of Secretarial Studies Students: A Study Made On A Sample Of The Public School Graduates Studying In The Secretarial Studies Program At The American University In Cairo, Wafaa Sami El-Mancabadi

Archived Theses and Dissertations

No abstract provided.

Sources Of Determinism In American Naturalistic Fiction And Theodore Dreiser's Place In The Movement, Nevine Ghourab

Archived Theses and Dissertations

No abstract provided.

Heraldry In The Arthuriad: A Brief Survey, Antoinette H. Brenion, Ian Myles Slater

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

Examines heraldic devices of Arthur and several of his knights, attempting to “give probable religious meanings of each.” Accompanied by a bibliographic note by Ian Myles Slater.

Affairs, Gracia Fay Ellwood

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

No abstract provided.

Reviews, Nancy-Lou Patterson, Robert S. Ellwood Jr., Daile Nicholson

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

A Severe Mercy. Sheldon Vanauken. Reviewed by Nancy-Lou Patterson.

The Joyful Christian. C. S. Lewis. Reviewed by Nancy-Lou Patterson.

Science Fiction: An Illustrated History. Sam J. Lundwall. Reviewed by Robert S. Ellwood Jr.

The Fantasy Book: An Illustrated History from Dracula to Tolkien. Franz Rottensteiner. Reviewed by Robert S. Ellwood Jr.

Lightening From a Clear Sky. Richard Mathews. Reviewed by Nancy-Lou Patterson.

The Inklings. Humphrey Carpenter. Reviewed by Nancy-Lou Patterson.

The Lion, the Witch, and the Wardrobe. Produced by Bill Melendez Productions. Reviewed by Daile Nicholson.

The Influence Of Vergil's Aeneid On The Lord Of The Rings, David Paul Pace

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

Examines selected parallels between characters and events in The Lord of the Rings and The Aeneid. Argues that although medieval sources are the most significant for The Lord of the Rings, among classical influences “the Aeneid shares more common elements with LotR than either the Iliad or the Odyssey.