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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.

Questionnaire

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

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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.

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.

Three Letters By J.R.R. Tolkien At The University Of Texas, Joe R. Christopher

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

Describes briefly three letters in the collection of the University of Texas at Austin: a 1939 letter to John Masefield, and two 1956 letters to Terence Tiller.

Lewis’ Time Machine And His Trip To The Moon, Robert Boenig

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

Explores Lewis’s (acknowledged) debt to H.G. Wells’s First Men in the Moon for Out of the Silent Planet. Suggests that “we can only understand Lewis’ fragmentary The Dark Tower by noticing a similar debt to Wells’ The Time Machine.”

Three Songs From The Bubbling Sky, Ian Mcmurdo

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

No abstract provided.

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.”

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

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

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Half There, Patricia E. Gunter

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., Thomas M. Egan, Joe R. Christopher

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

The Gift of Dreams, A Christian View. Kathryn Lindskoog. Reviewed by Nancy-Lou Patterson.

C.S. Lewis on Scripture. Michael J. Christensen. Reviewed by Nancy-Lou Patterson.

The Rainbow Goblins. Ul de Rico. Reviewed by Nancy-Lou Patterson.

Narnia Explored. Paul A. Karkainen. Reviewed by Nancy-Lou Patterson.

Pictures by J.R.R. Tolkien. Foreword and Notes by Christopher Tolkien. Reviewed by Nancy-Lou Patterson.

Reading With The Heart: The Way Into Narnia. Peter J. Schakel. Reviewed by Nancy-Lou Patterson.

Arthurian Legends: An Illustrated Anthology. Ed. by Richard Barber. Reviewed by Robert S. Ellwood, Jr..

Enchanted World: Pictures to Grow Up With. Bryan Holme. Reviewed by Robert S. …

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.

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.

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.”

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.

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.

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.

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.

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.

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.”

Editorial, 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, 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 …

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.

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.

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.

Robin's Summonses, Ruth Berman

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

No abstract provided.

Objective Measuring Techniques Applied To Illustrations In Children’S Picture Storybooks, Diane Brown Harrington

Graduate Research Papers

This research study was designed to determine if found and developed objective measuring techniques, using children's preferences and interests, were effective when applied to the illustrations of picture storybooks.

Using only fourteen books written and illustrated by Stan and Jan Berenstain, the five methods used to gather data for this study were: 1) applying the Picture Potency Formula to obtain the language stimulation value of each book; 2) Using a kindergarten child to determine if the essence of the story can be told by a child from lookin0 at the illustrations; 3) recording the number of times the main character(s) …