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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.

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.

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

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.

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.

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.

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.

C.S. Lewis And The Transcendence Of Irony, Roland M. Kawano

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

Takes off from H.L. Weatherby’s study of Lewis’s and Eliot’s relations to medieval literature, in suggesting that Lewis’s response to the modern gap between idea and image is to transcend irony in his own work. Discusses four aspects of Lewis: “the doctrine of stock responses, the reaction of Lewis to the doctrine of the unchanging human heart, the impersonal theory, and his experiment with various ways of reading."

Dear Mistress Ellwood, Virginia Ottoson, John Canaday, David T. Nethery, Margaret L. Carter, Nancy Perich Daly, Kathryn Lindskoog, Daile Nicholson

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

No abstract provided.

The Lion Of Judah, Ian Mcmurdo

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

No abstract provided.

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.

Launcelot Running, Robert Boenig

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

No abstract provided.

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 Jewels Of Messias: Images Of Judaism And Antisemitism In The Novels Of Charles Williams, Nancy-Lou Patterson

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

Reviews Williams’s portrayal of Jews in his novels and some of the erroneous notions of Jewish mysticism that may have influenced him. Expresses concern over the anti-Semitism expressed in these portrayals.

An Inklings Bibliography (9), 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.

Cavalier Treatment, Lee Speth

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

Notes the possibility of a parody of “Let Me Linger,” a 1937 poem by Mabel Ingalls Westott, in Mervyn Peake’s Titus Groan.

The Quest, Mary M. Stolzenbach

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

No abstract provided.

Land Of Faerie: The Disappearing Myth, Caroline Geer

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

Discusses various theories for the origins of fairies (and tales about them) in myth, history, and religion.

Some Elements Of Myth And Mysticism In C.S. Lewis’ Novel Till We Have Faces, Jean Marie Chard

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

Study of symbolism in Till We Have Faces, and its sources in various mystical traditions, alchemy, and psychology.

Reviews, George Colvin, Nancy-Lou Patterson, Lee Speth

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

Middle Earth. Simulations Publications Inc., Rob Mosca, Linda Mosca and Richard Berg, Howard Barasch. Reviewed by George Colvin.

J.R.R. Tolkien, A Biography. Humphrey Carpenter. Reviewed by Nancy-Lou Patterson.

The Longing for a Form, Essays on the Fiction of C.S. Lewis. Peter J. Schakel, ed.. Reviewed by Nancy-Lou Patterson.

Wonderful Wizard, Marvelous Land. Raylyn Moore, Preface by Ray Bradbury. Reviewed by Lee Speth.

"The Northern Literature" And The Ring Trilogy, Mariann Russell

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

Examines “the northern spirit” in Tolkien’s fiction, the tension between the spirit of “uttermost endurance in the service of indomitable will” and the prideful desire for reputation.

Star Calls, Gracia Fay Ellwood

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

No abstract provided.

A Note On Charles Williams’ The Place Of The Lion, Michael Haykin

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

Considers why Williams refers to a non-existent Gnostic tradition in a conversation between Anthony and Mr. Richardson. Is this mere error or purposeful?