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Elements Of The Idea Of The City In Charles Williams' Arthurian Poetry, Mariann Russell

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

Sees Williams’s Arthurian poems as a dialectic with a pattern of thesis, antithesis, and synthesis, the last related to the idea of coinherence. Examines Williams’s characteristic image of the City as it appears in the Arthurian poems.

Founder's Focus - Academia: Friend Or Foe?, Glen H. Goodknight

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

No abstract provided.

Lines, Joe R. Christopher

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

No abstract provided.

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 1: https://dc.swosu.edu/mythlore/vol6/iss3/2

Perchance To Touch: Tolkien As Scholar, Peter Milward

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

Recounts the author’s encounters with Tolkien’s written scholarship at Oxford, and attendance at a Tolkien lecture.

A Note On Mythopeic Holdingsin The Kerlan Collection, Ruth Berman

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

No abstract provided.

Dear Mistress Ellwood, Rhona Beare, James Irwin, Ian Myles Slater, M. M. Reid, Dinah J. Madcuff, Kathryn Lindskoog, Nancy-Lou Patterson, Benjamin Urrutia, Craig Smith, Cynthia Kihn, Elizabeth Blake

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

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An Inklings Bibilography (11), 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

Mythcon 10 - "The Silmarillicon", The Mythopoeic Society

Mythcon Programs

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An Inklings Bibliography (10), 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.

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.”

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

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.”

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.

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.

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.

Notes On Parzifal As The Holy Fool, James P. Wallace

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

Attempts to place the “divine folly” of von Eschenbach’s Parzifal within “various frameworks—Christian, Erasmusian, Hermetic, and Tarot."

The Lord Of The Rings As Saga, Gloriana St. Clair

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

Although other critics have described The Lord of the Rings as a fairy-story, epic, romance, or novel, the author believes saga is the most “comprehensive and appropriate” genre in which to place it.