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The Silver Chair And Plato's Allegory Of The Cave: Archetypes Of Spiritual Liberation, Courtney Lynn Simmons, Joe Simmons

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

Compares The Silver Chair and the allegory of the cave in Plato’s Republic, identifying eight commonalities. Asserts they have a common motif, “the spiritual quest for existential meaning where the divine and the terrestrial combine.”

"Sister Picture Of Dorian Grey": The Image Of The Female In Fritz Leiber's Conjure Wife, Bruce Byfield

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

Analyzes Leiber’s Conjure Wife in terms of its significance in his development as a writer. Focuses on rationality in magic and gender roles, and their relationship to Jungian concepts of conscious and unconscious.

Devil, Trickster And Fool, Tim Callahan

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

Discusses the Trickster and Fool figure in world folklore and mythology as well as selected fantasy literature.

Fantasy Characterization: The Example Of Tolkien, Dwayne Thorpe

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

Distinguishes the aesthetic requirements of fantasy as a genre and how they differ from those of mimetic fiction. Analyzes the success of The Lord of the Rings in meeting those requirements, particularly in characterization and inner consistency.

The Now Of Salvation: Thoughts On Charles Williams' "Et In Sempiternum Pereant", Stuart Kenny

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

Analysis of Williams’s short story, noting how the symbolism of time is connected to salvation or damnation.

Sailing West: Tolkien, The Saint Brendan Story, And The Idea Of Paradise In The West, Norma Roche

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

Discusses the idea of a paradise in the West—its mythological and literary sources, its relationship to history, and Tolkien’s use of it in the poem “Imram.”

Chronological Snobbery, Glen H. Goodknight

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

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Reviews, Paula Disante, Nancy-Lou Patterson, Chris Seeman

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

The 1992 J.R.R. Tolkien Calendar. Illus. by Ted Nasmith. Reviewed by Paula DiSante.

Word and Story in C.S. Lewis. Ed. Peter J. Schakel and Charles A. Huttar. Reviewed by Nancy-Lou Patterson.

Dorothy L. Sayers, Solving the Mystery of Wickedness. Mitzi Brunsdale. Reviewed by Nancy-Lou Patterson.

The Lord of the Rings (Original Motion Picture Soundtrack). Leonard Rosenman. Reviewed by Chris Seeman.

The Many Faces Of The Hero In The Lord Of The Rings, Stephen Potts

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

Guest of Honor address at Mythcon 22. Reviews various definitions and characteristics of the hero according to several folklorists and psychologists. Discusses Aragorn, Gandalf, Frodo, and Sam as heroes according to these definitions.

By "Significant" Compounding "We Pass Insensibly In The World Of Epic", J. S. Ryan

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

Relates Tolkien’s thoughts expressed in the essay “Prefatory Remarks on the Prose Translation of Beowulf” to the style of The Hobbit, particularly the use of compound words or kennings.

Et Cetera, Marshall University

Et Cetera

Founded in 1953, Et Cetera is an annual literary magazine that publishes the creative writing and artwork of Marshall University students and affiliates. Et Cetera is free to the Marshall University community.

Et Cetera welcomes submissions in literary and film criticism, poetry, short stories, drama, all types of creative non-fiction, photography, and art.

Merlin's Winter / Eurydice In The Real World / Walking On Water, Clelie Rich

The Mythic Circle

Merlin's Winter: Your season is over now. The Lady of the Lake has closed her villas for the winter Eurydice In The Real World: Orpheus crept unseen into his afterlife through the early dark Walking On Water: Sunset bleeds across the sky, stains my fingers saffron and peaches.

Now And Then / Wind, Maybe / Once Upon, Walter Kuchinsky

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Now and Then: Birds, there in the air and fish, there in the sea then, as now, as then are really one for me Wind, Maybe: Didn’t hear anything, last night Once Upon: ONCE UPON a late night, easy chair, living room, Pheasant Glen

The Rune Master, Conda V. Douglas

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Emerad stood upon the tower, watch­ing the far-off wisps of smoke from the battlefield.

Only Half A Moon Outside, Zan Agzigian

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he mumbled low, hidden in past footsteps, beaming through the tom branches needling his head

Editorial, Tina Cooper, Christine Lowentrout

The Mythic Circle

Welcome to The Mythic Circle #11. This issue offers some variations on a theme of Winter-into-Spring, particularly Doug Rossman’s notable "The Theft of the Sun"; let us know if you enjoy the seasonal parallelism. You’ll also notice that we continue to run a lot of poetry, including a series of poems by Dirk Verhulst which delicately probe the terror in everyday life, and a wryly lyrical series by Clelie Rich.

The Prodigal Son's Older Brother Wonders About The Right And Left Path, Dirk J. Verhulst

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I recognized first the old limp as you walked over the horizon on the road which disappears directly to the left of the sun

Seamist For Two Voices, Clelie Rich

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Who waits by the seashore, there on the rocks, grey and cold and forlorn?

Letters Of Comment, Joe Christopher, Angelee Sailer Anderson, Joan Marie Verba, Erin Lale, Anne Valley, Gwenyth E. Hood, Charles R. Schabel

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Letters of Comment, sent in from readers in Mythic Circle #11

The Silencebringers, David Sparenberg

The Mythic Circle

The man who loves the earth whose love is genuine

Red Hawk Song / Mount Lowe 1978 / Higher, David Sparenberg, Paul Newman

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Red Hawk Song: I admit that I love you. My heart sings strongly through the fires of my body. Mount Lowe 1978: Ruins rambled, too well sifted Higher: Watching the crows' realm, treetop mopers amidst cloud erasers of the blue.

Signs Of The Times, Gwenyth E. Hood

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The Cherry spread her blossoms in the fall White and dainty among the golden leaves, Before the deep-red-ivy coated wall

Medicine Cord, David Sparenberg

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I grasp in my hands today the tail feather of a hawk

Enforced Adaptation, V. W. Massie

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Coryann Sayre woke to blessed silence. Then she remembered; there was cotton in her ears.

The Light That Was Lorainne, Dan O'Keefe

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One second, I sat alone in my bedroom, in my wheelchair. I stared out the only window at a neighbor across the street mowing her lawn.

Sun-Time, Suzanne Burgoyne Dieckman

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Mryeshta sat on the riverback, watching skyrr birds skim over the water in little leafy boats. The sun sat high in the sky.

Cat's Paw, Amy Wolf

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The frozen expanse of Balion Wood was silent, save for deerskin boots crunch­ing against snow.

The Theft Of The Sun, Douglas A. Rossman

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It is told that when the great skald Dag Ormseeker was but a mere lad, his mother, the swan-maiden Hervor, sent him off to live with her brother, Ragnar Rune-Wise, the fatherless boy having reached an age when he required the kind of training that only a man could provide.

One Sunday My Son / Cassandra, Dirk J. Verhulst

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One Sunday My Son: One Sunday my son ran into the orchard behind the house. Cassandra: You have heard the children cry from the water below the rock: the earth red with blood from the feast of the father.

Civic Hospital, Emergency Ward / Reluctant Spring, Dirk J. Verhulst

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Civic Hospital, Emergency Ward: In the waiting room my wife rests her pain on my shoulder; the broken bones are hidden below the surface of her skin. Reluctant Spring: This spring the birds fly low above the trees; their new green skin not yet able to hide the bones of branches.