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Owen Barfield In Southern California (2), Glen Goodknight

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

No abstract provided.

Exchange, Complementarity, Co-Inherence: Aspects Of Community In Charles Williams, Sister Mary Anthony Weinig

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

Discusses Williams’s ideas of exchange and coinherence in relation to community, particularly church. Argues that Williams’s works (fiction and non-fiction) exhibit not only a theology of romantic love “but also an ecclesiology and sacramental system.”

Cavalier Treatment: Once More Round The Cauldron, Lee Speth

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

This is part 2 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 1 see https://dc.swosu.edu/mythlore/vol6/iss3/5

Bureaucratization In The Lord Of The Rings, Thomas Gray

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

Discusses the rise of bureaucratic organization in the Third Age as a response to denser population and the needs of war and administration; considers the pitfalls and advantages of bureaucratic organization and Tolkien’s attitudes towards it.

Battle Hill: Places Of Transition In Charles Williams’ Descent Into Hell, Margaret R. Purdy

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

Notes that Williams uses many elements of the traditional ghost story in Descent Into Hell, especially in the story of the suicide. However, Williams “touches [the ghost story] with the numinous, giving its symbols a sacramental meaning.”

Myth In The Media, Glen Goodknight

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

No abstract provided.

Editorial, Gracia Fay Ellwood

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

No abstract provided.

Letters, Cathy Siemann, Margaret R. Purdy, Jane Batt, Alexei Kondratiev, Benjamin Urrutia, Margaret L. Carter, Rhona Beare, Marjorie Jacobs, Kathryn Lindskoog, Julia K. Williams, Thomas Gray, Laura Ruskin, Thomas M. Egan

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

No abstract provided.

Aragorn Gazes On Ruined Arnor, David Lenander

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

No abstract provided.

Origin Of The Name ‘Narnia’, Albert A. Bell Jr.

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

Contends that the origin of the name “Narnia” is to be found in classical Latin literature, where it is a place-name for an area about 50 miles from Rome.

An Inklings Bibliography (13), 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.

Love’S Alchemy: Jane In That Hideous Strength, Janice Neuleib

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

Notes that many students have trouble with the ending of That Hideous Strength because of Jane’s submission to Mark. Argues that the ending is inevitable and that Jane, in discovering caritas, “relinquished selfishness, not self.”

Cavalier Treatment: Questions Of Taste, Lee Speth

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

No abstract provided.

Mythcon: Random Thoughts, Christine Ione Smith

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

No abstract provided.

Editorial, Gracia Fay Ellwood

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

No abstract provided.

An Inklings Bibliography (12), 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.

Dorothy L Sayers At Fifty, Joe R. Christopher

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

No abstract provided.

Tolkien’S Lore: The Songs Of Middle-Earth, Diane Marchesani

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

Examines and categorizes the over sixty examples of folk-songs and poems in Middle-earth—songs of lore, ballads, ballad-style, and nonsense songs.

The Figure Of Taliessin, David A. Dowdy

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

No abstract provided.

The Uses Of Myth, Thomas Howard

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

Attempts to give a definition of myth, and the elements necessary for a mythic tale. Concludes the mythic narrative is necessary to evoke certain “notions” that cannot be expressed in the impoverished symbolism and imagery of modern literature.

Reviews, Nancy-Lou Patterson, Lee Speth

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

Shadows of Imagination - The Fantasies of C. S. Lewsis, J. R. R. Tolkien, and Charles Williams, with an Afterward on J.R.R. Tolkien's The Silmarillion by Peter Kreeft. Ed. by March R. Hillegas. Afterword by Peter Kneeft. Reviewed by Nancy-Lou Patterson.

Modern Fantasy - Five Studies. C. N. Manlove. Reviewed by Nancy-Lou Patterson.

Oz series. Frank Baum. Reviewed by Lee Speth

Real Presence, The Holy Spirit in the Works of C.S. Lewis . Leanne Payne. Reviewed by Nancy-Lou Patterson.

Past Watchful Dragons. Walter Hooper. Reviewed by Nancy-Lou Patterson.

They Stand Together: The Letters of C.S. Lewis to Arthur Greeves (1914 …

Christian Doctrines ‘Transposed’ In C.S. Lewis’ Till We Have Faces, Martha C. Sammons

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

Presents “Biblical principles that underlie Till We Have Faces,” which Lewis has “transposed,” giving the reader “a new way of looking at the Christian doctrines of the Fall, redemption and man’s relationship to God as a result of the Fall, and the future glory and perfection of the believer.”

Letters, Charles E. Nord, John D. Rateliff, Jessica Yates, Jonathan Mccoll, Thomas Santoski, Margaret L. Carter, John Fitzpatrick, Benjamin Urrutia, Euoemie Wildbody

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

No abstract provided.

Myth's Loss And The Remythologisers, Glen Goodknight

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

No abstract provided.

Robin's Summonses, Ruth Berman

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

No abstract provided.

Eowyn, Joe R. Christopher

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

No abstract provided.

A Brief Introduction To The History And Origin Of The Holy Grail Motif, Stephen Thorson

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

Alludes briefly to “different theories of the origin of the Holy Grail legend.” Focuses on post-Chrétien material for what it suggests about origins.

Sir Gawain's Missing Day, Joe Christopher

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

Notes a missing day in chronology of events at Morgan le Fay’s castle, and suggests a relation to themes of falseness in the poem.

Getting It Together: Lewis And The Two Hemispheres Of Knowing, Kathryn Lindskoog

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

Relates Lewis’s treatment of Reason and Imagination in his poem “Reason” to discoveries about right brain/left brain operation.

An Inklings Bibliography (8), 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.