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A Survey Of Adolescent Reading Habits And Influences : A Study In Selected Parochial Secondary Schools, Sylvia J. Davis

Loma Linda University Electronic Theses, Dissertations & Projects

Adolescent literature, written by authors with a concern for the illiteracy in the United States, and read by students growing in their ability to comprehend life, is a vital link in the personal exploration and adjustment needed by young persons as they proceed into adulthood. Many polls have been conducted by teachers and librarians to learn which authors and topics are meaningful to the young student at the secondary level. It is hoped that this study might assist the teacher in understanding the reading habits of students in a parochial atmosphere by providing a background to evaluate assignments given and …

Cavalier Treatment: Those Shakespearean Hags, Lee Speth

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

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.

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.

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

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.

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.

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.”

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.

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.

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.

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.

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.

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.

Launcelot Running, Robert Boenig

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

No abstract provided.

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.

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.