Children's and Young Adult Literature Commons^™

Light-Adapted Eye, Chris Willrich

The Mythic Circle

No abstract provided.

The Familiar Stranger, Sheri Gaia Chapin

The Mythic Circle

No abstract provided.

The Dragon Tree, Stepan Chapman

The Mythic Circle

No abstract provided.

Mythic Circle #23, Gwenyth E. Hood

The Mythic Circle

No abstract provided.

The Small Press Question, Trent Walters

The Mythic Circle

No abstract provided.

An Interview With John Marco, Trent Walters

The Mythic Circle

No abstract provided.

Gretel Has Little Red Riding Hood To Tea At The Ritz, Sarah E. Skwire

The Mythic Circle

No abstract provided.

Prehistoric Utah Sandbar, Christopher Mckitterick

The Mythic Circle

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Atlantis And The Why, Christopher Mckitterick

The Mythic Circle

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Four Poems By Father Nikodim, Father Nikodim

The Mythic Circle

No abstract provided.

Licking Clean The Bowl: Four Poems And Prose Poems, David C. Kopaska-Merkel

The Mythic Circle

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Fruit And Consequences, Lynn Maudlin

The Mythic Circle

No abstract provided.

Editorial, Theodore James Sherman

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

No abstract provided.

Editorial, Theodore James Sherman

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

No abstract provided.

From Isolation To Community: Ransom's Spiritual Odyssey, Devin Brown

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

Explores Ransom’s transformation from a position of isolation at the beginning of Out of the Silent Planet to his position as Head of the community of St. Anne’s in That Hideous Strength.

C.S. Lewis's Prufrockian Vision In The Great Divorce, Charles A. Huttar

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

Examines the influence of Eliot’s early poem “The Love Song of J. Alfred Prufrock” on Lewis’s dream vision fantasy The Great Divorce.

Top Ten Rejected Plot Twists From The Lord Of The Rings: A Textual Excursion Into The "History Of The Lord Of The Rings", David Bratman

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

Examines and details Tolkien’s developing understanding of the direction The Lord of the Rings should take—a window into the mind of a maker at work.

Meeting Morgan Le Fay: J.R.R. Tolkien's Theory Of Subcreation And The Secondary World Of Sir Gawain And The Green Knight, C. M. Adderley

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

Applies Tolkien’s theories of the artist as a sub-creator and of the artist’s creation as a secondary world to the Middle English alliterative poem Sir Gawain and the Green Knight.

Three Bridge-Builders: Priest-Craft In Till We Have Faces, David W. Landrum

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

Investigates Lewis’s portrayal of priests and the divine in Till We Have Faces.

What J.R.R. Tolkien Really Did With The Sampo?, Jonathan B. Himes

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

Examines and describes the methods and ways in which Tolkien used and modified the Finnish epic The Kalevala in his creation of the tales that became The Silmarillion.

Letters, William A.S. Sarjeant, Barbara L. Mccauley, Chuck Huttar, Terrence Neal Brown, Peter Schakel

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

No abstract provided.

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.

Book Talk In A Thematic Literature Unit, Cathy E. Dickerson

Graduate Research Papers

Discussions of literature may be viewed as a part of the social environment in which students can work together collaboratively to construct meaning. Book talk, or discussion, in a thematic unit encourages students to focus attention on the important ideas in their literature experiences, thus moving them beyond literal comprehension to inferential thinking.

The theme of survival was chosen to promote book talk. A web was created that visually mapped the different aspects of the topic. The book Hatchet, by Gary Paulsen, was chosen to introduce the unit and was read aloud to all children. This book became a foil …

Dead Mothers, Lonely Daughters : Negotiating Intersubjective Space In Young Adult Fiction, Anna-Claire Walsh

Theses : Honours

This thesis examines the effect of maternal absence on the ability of three central female characters to develop intersubjective relationships in three novels for young adults. The theoretical framework is Jessica Benjamin's psychoanalytic theory of 'intersubjectivity' which seeks to transcend split complementarities such as active-passive creating a model that synthesises traditionally opposed terms. Benjamin situates maternal subjectivity as the foundation from which a baby's identity is constructed and attributes women with both active and passive qualities. The relationship between mother and infant consequently acts as a paradigm for understanding the interaction between adult subjects in later life. Chapter One introduces …

The Portrayal Of Native American Women In Fiction Written For Young People, Linda L. Tyon

Graduate Research Papers

The purpose of this study was to examine how Native American women were portrayed in contemporary fiction written for young children. The study was limited to books published between 1989 and 1999. Content analysis was used to obtain data for this study. Twenty-three Native American female characters from twenty books were included in the population sample. The study was to determine if a majority of books would portray Native American women accurately based on current demographic data. It also sought to determine if the majority of contemporary fiction books would continue to display stereotypic portrayals of Native American women and …

A Queer Love : The Gay Male In Young Adult Literature, Skot John Arbery

Theses : Honours

The purpose of my thesis· A Queer Love: The Gay Male in Young Adult Literature -is to offer an analysis of seven young adult novels that incorporate the construction and representation of while male homosexuality. I intend to explore what it is that can be learnt from these texts about 'being gay'. It is my assertion that I will be able to show that, although taboos have been shifted in young adult literature to allow the exploration of issues relating to gay adolescence, that which is condoned as acceptable 'gay behavior' remains restricted. I propose that in order for gay …

The Commonplace Book: Charles Williams's Early Approach To The Arthurian Poetry, Georgette Versinger

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

Examines Williams’s handwritten notebook, in which he jotted ideas and references for his Arthurian poetry, for clues about influences, style, themes, and characters.

Editorial, Theodore James Sherman

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

No abstract provided.

Fantasy And Reality: J.R.R. Tolkien's World And The Fairy-Story Essay, Verlyn Flieger

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

Examines how Tolkien applied a central concept of “On Fairy-stories,” the idea that fantasy must be firmly based in reality, to his writing of The Lord of the Rings.

Three Views Of Faerie In C.S. Lewis's "The Queen Of Drum", Joe R. Christopher

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

Notes “The Queen of Drum” is nearly unique among Lewis’s works in offering a third choice—Heaven, Hell, and Elfland—rather than a strict either/or choice between heaven and hell.