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Is Children's Literature Childish?, Glen Goodknight Oct 1993

Is Children's Literature Childish?, Glen Goodknight

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

Opening address at Mythcon 24. A discussion of the value of “children’s” literature supported by quotations from Tolkien’s “On Fairy-stories” and Lewis’s “On Three Ways of Writing for Children.”


Biblical Typology In Leguin's The Eye Of The Heron: Character, Structure, And Theme, Joel N. Feimer Oct 1993

Biblical Typology In Leguin's The Eye Of The Heron: Character, Structure, And Theme, Joel N. Feimer

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

Noting it is only one of many sources for her world-making, examines biblical typology and figural elements from Le Guin’s The Eye of the Heron.


All Hell Into His Knapsack: The Spirit Of Play In Two Fairy Tales, Howard Canaan Oct 1993

All Hell Into His Knapsack: The Spirit Of Play In Two Fairy Tales, Howard Canaan

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

Examines psychological motifs and representations of the journey into maturity in two little-known Grimm fairy tales.


An Ozdessey In Plato, Michael Johnson Oct 1993

An Ozdessey In Plato, Michael Johnson

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

Applies “a Platonic filter to the major plot line of The Wizard of Oz [...] construe[s] Baum’s book as if Plato had conceived it as one of his own myths.” Pays particular attention to Plato’s ideas of the human soul and psychology.


Letters, Patrick Wynne, Alexei Kondratiev, Joan Marie Verba Oct 1993

Letters, Patrick Wynne, Alexei Kondratiev, Joan Marie Verba

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

No abstract provided.


Tales Newly Told, Alexei Kondratiev Oct 1993

Tales Newly Told, Alexei Kondratiev

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

Wolfe, Gene. Nightside the Long Sun.


Stone Towers, Carl F. Hostetter, Patrick Wynne Oct 1993

Stone Towers, Carl F. Hostetter, Patrick Wynne

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

Proposes “Celtic and pre-Celtic origins for certain linguistic and legendary elements in a corpus whose sources” have been sought in Germanic myth and legend.


Nature And Technology: Angelic And Sacrificial Strategies In Tolkien's The Lord Of The Rings, Gwyneth Hood Oct 1993

Nature And Technology: Angelic And Sacrificial Strategies In Tolkien's The Lord Of The Rings, Gwyneth Hood

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

Responds to critics who call Tolkien anti-science and anti-technology by showing that creatures of Middle-earth manipulate their environments, but in less obvious ways. Contrasts the “angelic” methods of elves with the “sacrificial” strategy of mortals.


Touch Magic: The Importance Of Teaching Folktales To Emotionally Disturbed, Disabled Readers, Sandra J. Lindow Oct 1993

Touch Magic: The Importance Of Teaching Folktales To Emotionally Disturbed, Disabled Readers, Sandra J. Lindow

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

Recounts the efficacy of folk-tales in teaching reading and language skills to reading-disabled and emotionally disturbed children and adolescents.


An Inklings Bibliography (50), Joe R. Christopher, Wayne G. Hammond Oct 1993

An Inklings Bibliography (50), Joe R. Christopher, Wayne G. Hammond

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

Entries 42–59 in this series are written by Hammond (Tolkien material) and Christopher (Lewis and other material). See Hammond, Wayne G., for one later entry in this series.


In This Issue, Glen Goodknight Oct 1993

In This Issue, Glen Goodknight

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

No abstract provided.


Mythcon 24 - Down The Hobbit-Hole & Through The Wardrobe: Fantasy In Children's Literature, The Mythopoeic Society Aug 1993

Mythcon 24 - Down The Hobbit-Hole & Through The Wardrobe: Fantasy In Children's Literature, The Mythopoeic Society

Mythcon Programs

Mythcon XXIV is pleased to offer you a wide selection of daytime programming, including scholarly papers, panel discussions, readings, storytelling, and other events, beginning at 1:00 p.m. on Friday. We recommend studying our Pocket Program to choose the events you wish to attend each hour and to plan when to visit our Art Show and Dealers' Room.


Saint Tiffany And The Dragon, Bruce Mccandless Iii Jul 1993

Saint Tiffany And The Dragon, Bruce Mccandless Iii

The Mythic Circle

No abstract provided.


The Last Paragraph, C. R. Schabel Jul 1993

The Last Paragraph, C. R. Schabel

The Mythic Circle

No abstract provided.


The Two Bridegrooms, Angelee Sailer Anderson Jul 1993

The Two Bridegrooms, Angelee Sailer Anderson

The Mythic Circle

There was a maid to love inclined; Cared not where she might linger, If one fair circlet she could find To set around her finger.


The White Geese, D. Lynn Smith Jul 1993

The White Geese, D. Lynn Smith

The Mythic Circle

No abstract provided.


The First King Of The Island, Erin Lale Jul 1993

The First King Of The Island, Erin Lale

The Mythic Circle

Out of the north came a bitter wind, And with it long, long ships. Out of the north with a frosty cry, Pale gold sailors slipped.


Shore Song, Barbara Jarvik Jul 1993

Shore Song, Barbara Jarvik

The Mythic Circle

Drayley Dray came on a Thursday Where Lacey Lamb sang starry-eyed, "Tell a story now till Friday, While I sift stones left by the tide."


Skull Grip / Circle Way, Janet Elliott Waters Jul 1993

Skull Grip / Circle Way, Janet Elliott Waters

The Mythic Circle

Skull Grip: But then, Athena sprang from a headache. This stabbing pain, like slivers of glass flints, could be birth pangs. Circle Way: I, Hunter, arrow cast I know your magic ways I track your secret ways


Letters Of Comment, Charles De Lint, Thomas Egan, Gwenyth E. Hood, Erin Lale, Ron Blizzard Jul 1993

Letters Of Comment, Charles De Lint, Thomas Egan, Gwenyth E. Hood, Erin Lale, Ron Blizzard

The Mythic Circle

No abstract provided.


Artorius Wyvernis, Amy Wolf Jul 1993

Artorius Wyvernis, Amy Wolf

The Mythic Circle

Leigh squinted as she rounded a grassy corner, dazzled by the brightness of another L.A. day.


A Little Help, Joan Marie Verba Jul 1993

A Little Help, Joan Marie Verba

The Mythic Circle

The sky was a deep blue over the green canopy of the forest, above Bronwen’s head.


Psyche's Marriage, Joe R. Christopher Jul 1993

Psyche's Marriage, Joe R. Christopher

The Mythic Circle

No abstract provided.


Memory's Lover, With Two Catalogues, Joe R. Christopher Jul 1993

Memory's Lover, With Two Catalogues, Joe R. Christopher

The Mythic Circle

No abstract provided.


Hermes' Sister, Joe R. Christopher Jul 1993

Hermes' Sister, Joe R. Christopher

The Mythic Circle

No abstract provided.


Two Young Women, Arnold Cheyney Jul 1993

Two Young Women, Arnold Cheyney

The Mythic Circle

No abstract provided.


Underground, K. A. Harbour Jul 1993

Underground, K. A. Harbour

The Mythic Circle

No abstract provided.


Editorial, Tina Cooper, C.I.S. Lowentrout Jul 1993

Editorial, Tina Cooper, C.I.S. Lowentrout

The Mythic Circle

Welcome to The Mythic Circle #15. It’s hard to believe that we’ve actually published fifteen issues. Thanks to all you authors and subscribers, especially those who have stayed with us from the beginning!


Sonnet For Strider, Angelee Sailer Anderson Jul 1993

Sonnet For Strider, Angelee Sailer Anderson

The Mythic Circle

From nose to velvet ears to proud tail-tip, In one hue, teddy bear-like, you’re arrayed:


Ka, Dwight E. Humphries Jul 1993

Ka, Dwight E. Humphries

The Mythic Circle

I fear nothing In this life or The next if I’m Allowed judgment to Become as Osiris;