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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

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

Kyria Sophia, Gracia Fay Ellwood

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

No abstract provided.

"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.

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.

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.

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."

Affairs, Gracia Fay Ellwood

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

No abstract provided.

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.

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.

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.

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.

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.

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.

The Literary Characteristics Of Books Popular With Fourth And Fifth Graders At Hudson Elementary School, Marilyn H. Lilja

Graduate Research Papers

The report of a study conducted in the fall of the 1978-79 school year by the elementary media specialist at Hudson, Iowa Elementary School to determine what literary characteristics were found in books which were currently popular with the Hudson fourth and fifth grade students. The literature reviewed discussed the criteria of literary quality developed by other authors. A set of ten criteria with which to judge literary quality was developed by the researcher. A survey was taken to determine the fifteen most popular books among these students. The books were then read by the researcher and evaluated in terms …

A Content Analysis Of The Portrayal Of The Emotionally Disturbed In Books Popular With Adolescents, Judith A. Heusinkveld

Graduate Research Papers

The major purposes of this research were to analyze the portrayal of emotionally disturbed characters in books which adolescents are reading and to attempt to determine if this portrayal was realistic and balanced in terms of the entire group of books. A panel of experts was used to obtain a sample of ten books. The portrayals of twelve characters from these ten books were analyzed using an inventory of twelve elements which were derived from traditional stereotypes of the emotionally disturbed. The results of this analysis suggested that, for the most part, a realistic and generally balanced portrayal of emotionally …

Biographical Profiles Of The Caldecott Illustrators, Patricia Bernard

Graduate Research Papers

This research study is a biographical profile of the Caldecott illustrators up to 1979. The purpose of this study was to see if commonalities existed in the backgrounds of those illustrators chosen to receive the Caldecott award.

Animal Stereotypes In Children’S Picture Books, Jeanna L. Massman

Graduate Research Papers

This research was a content analysis concerned with the stereotyping of animals in children's literature. Five hypotheses were formulated on the topic. These hypotheses examined the relationship between type of characterization (animal as animal, animal as animal but talking, animal as human being) and stereotyping. The relationship between role of character (major or minor) and stereotyping and the degree of stereotyping and realism, in general, prevalent in children's picture books. The animals picked for analysis were bears, foxes, mice and rabbits. The total population of books was taken from five sources and a stratified random sample was drawn. A total …

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.

Endymion, Joe R. Christopher

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

No abstract provided.

Levels Of Symbolic Meaning In Pearl, Laurence J. Krieg

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

Using Tolkien’s translation, examines three levels of meaning in the Middle English poem. Calls it a poem “into which is woven an intense and organic symbolism of the Christian doctrine of death and eternal life.”

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?