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Middle-Earth’S Middleman: Exploring The Contradictory Positionalities Of Faramir In J.R.R. Tolkien’S 'The Lord Of The Rings', Kelsey A. Fuller-Shafer
Middle-Earth’S Middleman: Exploring The Contradictory Positionalities Of Faramir In J.R.R. Tolkien’S 'The Lord Of The Rings', Kelsey A. Fuller-Shafer
Journal of Tolkien Research
In the large pantheon of characters in The Lord of the Rings, Faramir stands out for his position of unbelonging, and is usually analyzed comparatively to other characters rather than in-depth in his own right. However, more focused considerations of Faramir can articulate the breadth of Tolkien’s influences that were incorporated into Middle-earth as well as the ways in which those influences conflicted with Tolkien's own moral compass, and thus needed to be openly challenged and modified. Those internal conflicts can be interrogated throughout Faramir’s contradictory positions within the literature, history, and societies that Middle-earth represents. His positioning in a …
Recognizing Traps And Frightening Wolves: Foxes And Lions As A Representative Of Machiavellian Political Ideology In Shakespeare’S Comedies, Grace A. Powell
Recognizing Traps And Frightening Wolves: Foxes And Lions As A Representative Of Machiavellian Political Ideology In Shakespeare’S Comedies, Grace A. Powell
Student Scholar Showcase
While William Shakespeare’s plays and sonnets have been discussed time and time again over the past few centuries, one topic that has been less traversed is the connection between his Comedies and Niccolò Machiavelli’s political ideologies. This project will explore references of lions and foxes in Shakespeare’s Comedies and the leaders and monarchs within them to determine how beliefs about Machiavelli’s political ideology influenced Shakespeare’s literature and became symbols for leadership and power. This project will be important for gaining historical context on Machiavellian political discourse and how it was represented in the contemporary dramatic literature of William Shakespeare. I …
Timeless Moments: Russell Kirk, Charles Williams, And Stephen King On The Afterlife, Camilo Peralta
Timeless Moments: Russell Kirk, Charles Williams, And Stephen King On The Afterlife, Camilo Peralta
Mythlore: A Journal of J.R.R. Tolkien, C.S. Lewis, Charles Williams, and Mythopoeic Literature
What happens to us after death is one of the oldest and most difficult questions. Even the standard response of many Christians, that we go to either Heaven, Hell, or Purgatory, can only partly satisfy, because while we experience the passing of time in a linear manner, those places are said to exist completely outside of time. How, then, can it make sense to speak of “going” to Heaven or Hell after death? Must we not always and forever be there—even during our lifetimes? Russell Kirk, a Catholic historian from Michigan who often speculated about the afterlife in his fiction …
Tolkien, Augustinian Theodicy, And 'Lovecraftian' Evil, Perry Neil Harrison
Tolkien, Augustinian Theodicy, And 'Lovecraftian' Evil, Perry Neil Harrison
Mythlore: A Journal of J.R.R. Tolkien, C.S. Lewis, Charles Williams, and Mythopoeic Literature
A number of scholars have commented upon Augustine of Hippo’s influence upon J.R.R. Tolkien’s portrayal of evil in his legendarium. However, in his seminal work J.R.R. Tolkien: Author of the Century, Tom Shippey pushes back against this perception, noting that there are some forms of evil in the legendarium that do not adhere to the Augustine’s belief that evil is merely a “twisting” of good. This article argues that Ungoliant is one such exception to the Augustinian paradigm because of the uncertainty regarding her origins.This uncertainty complicates the Augustinian view of evil that permeates the legendarium and instead echoes …
Pity, Power, And Tolkien's Ring: To Rule The Fate Of Many (2023) By Thomas P. Hillman, Marilyn R. Pukkila
Pity, Power, And Tolkien's Ring: To Rule The Fate Of Many (2023) By Thomas P. Hillman, Marilyn R. Pukkila
Journal of Tolkien Research
Book review, by Marilyn R. Pukkila, of Pity, Power, and Tolkien's Ring: To Rule the Fate of Many (2023) by Thomas P. Hillman
Concealment And Darkness In Horace Walpole’S The Castle Of Otranto, Alexandra G. Speck
Concealment And Darkness In Horace Walpole’S The Castle Of Otranto, Alexandra G. Speck
Global Tides
This paper examines the relationship between darkness and fear in Horace Walpole’s The Castle of Otranto, widely recognized as the first Gothic novel. Walpole wrote Otranto soon after the rise of Enlightenment thought, which stressed sensory observation as the foundation for human reason. Walpole engages with Enlightenment ideas through Otranto’s dark setting, which invokes fear and irrationality in the heroine, Isabella.
Tracking Walpole’s manipulation of light and darkness through the narrative, this paper illustrates how darkness inspires more fear in Isabella than either the novel’s infamous supernatural dangers or its human villain, Prince Manfred, who pursues her through …
Bibliography For "Pico Iyer Display", Isabella Piechota, Arianna Tillman, Kalea Brown
Bibliography For "Pico Iyer Display", Isabella Piechota, Arianna Tillman, Kalea Brown
Library Displays and Bibliographies
A bibliography created to support a display about Pico Iyer at the Leatherby Libraries during April 2024 at the Leatherby Libraries at Chapman University.
Carol Ann Duffy And War Weariness, Ava Hickman
Carol Ann Duffy And War Weariness, Ava Hickman
Student Writing
An analysis of Carol Ann Duffy's poems "War Photographer," "Last Post," and "Poker in the Falklands with Henry & Jim." These poems explore the effects of war on soldiers and civilians alike, detailing the psychological changes people go through during times of war.
“Éowyn It Was, And Dernhelm Also”: Reading The ‘Wild Shieldmaiden’ Through A Queer Lens., Sara Brown
“Éowyn It Was, And Dernhelm Also”: Reading The ‘Wild Shieldmaiden’ Through A Queer Lens., Sara Brown
Journal of Tolkien Research
The Éowyn we first meet in 'The Two Towers' is a woman who has been traumatised by the loss of her parents at a young age, the recent loss of her cousin Théodred, the apparent weakening of her uncle Théoden, and her inability to escape the lascivious gaze of Wormtongue. Marginalised by her gender and by social expectation, her desire to find purpose in her life as a shieldmaiden is repeatedly thwarted. Seeking to reclaim control over her life and to make her own choices, she rides out with the Rohirrim not as Éowyn, but as Dernhelm.
Past scholars have …
Beyond "His Native Town": Travel And Alienation In Mary Shelley's Frankenstein, Erin G. Quinn
Beyond "His Native Town": Travel And Alienation In Mary Shelley's Frankenstein, Erin G. Quinn
Criterion: A Journal of Literary Criticism
Mary Shelley’s 1818 novel Frankenstein features a surprisingly extensive variety of locations through which Victor Frankenstein travels, ranging from the vibrant cities of London and Oxford to the isolated Orkney islands and Arctic lands. Scholars have analyzed the roles which some of these settings, namely, the Alps and the Arctic, play in the novel, and many have noted the importance of travel to the text. However, little scholarship exists assessing how Victor’s travels as a whole impact him, as well as their collective purpose within the story. Given the prominence of travel in Shelley’s text, as well as the fact …
“Creating And Maintaining Black Life-Worlds”: The Black Aesthetics Of Bernardine Evaristo’S Blonde Roots And Girl, Woman, Other, Sharanya Dg
Criterion: A Journal of Literary Criticism
Black Aesthetics is the philosophical inquiry into the objects and practices of expressions coming from people who have been racialized as black. These expressive practices then lend to the creation of the life-worlds of people subjected to racist discourses. One such author in the contemporary English society, Bernadine Evaristo, responds to anti-black racist discourses by exploring the cultural plurality of British black life-worlds. This paper is a textual and formal analysis of two experimental novels of Evaristo to study how they distinctly present the quotidian lives of various characters in their racialised bodies to reflect on the sociocultural and political …
You’Re Invited! Collaborating With Faculty And Students To Create A Successful Library Event, Laura Semrau
You’Re Invited! Collaborating With Faculty And Students To Create A Successful Library Event, Laura Semrau
Transforming Libraries for Graduate Students
To celebrate the 400th anniversary of the printing of Shakespeare’s First Folio, the Baylor University Libraries hosted a three-day celebration; “Shakespeare 400” drew faculty members from six academic departments and leveraged the talents of both graduate and undergraduate students. The four main events drew a cumulative crowd of over 200 people. Graduate students contributed to the events through music performance, a dramatic reading, enthusiastic promotion, and engaged participation. This presentation will explore key take-aways for including graduate students in library events.
The success of Shakespeare 400 was largely due to collaborations between the library, faculty members, and graduate …
Tolkien: Uomo, Professore, Autore (2023), Ivano Sassanelli
Tolkien: Uomo, Professore, Autore (2023), Ivano Sassanelli
Journal of Tolkien Research
Book review, by Ivano Sassanelli, of Tolkien: Uomo, Professore, Autore (2023)
Tolkien And The Relation Between Sub-Creation And Reality (2023), Edited By Guiseppe Pezzini And Eden O'Brien, John Wm. Houghton
Tolkien And The Relation Between Sub-Creation And Reality (2023), Edited By Guiseppe Pezzini And Eden O'Brien, John Wm. Houghton
Journal of Tolkien Research
Book review, by John Wm. Houghton, of Tolkien and the Relation between Sub-Creation and Reality (2023), edited by Guiseppe Pezzini and Eden O'Brien
Sauron: Weirdly Sexy, Robert T. Tally Jr.
Sauron: Weirdly Sexy, Robert T. Tally Jr.
Journal of Tolkien Research
A popular meme depict Galadriel and Frodo admitting that Sauron is "weirdly sexy," a humorous allusion to The Rings of Power’s Halbrand. The show's controversial revelation of Halbrand as Sauron highlights the differences between Tolkien’s construction of Second and Third Age Sauron as an attractive or admirable leader compared to Peter Jackson’s portrayal of him as a monster or disembodied fiery eyeball. This, in turn, has implications for the geopolitical order of Middle-earth in which many people legitimately might wish to be on Sauron’s side. Acknowledging Sauron's "sexiness" may allow us to see Tolkien's world system in a new …
Miscellaneous, Bruce R. Johnson
Miscellaneous, Bruce R. Johnson
Sehnsucht: The C. S. Lewis Journal
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Review Of Further Up And Further In, Bruce R. Johnson
Review Of Further Up And Further In, Bruce R. Johnson
Sehnsucht: The C. S. Lewis Journal
Review of Further Up and Further In. Written and performed by Max McLean. Phoenix, AZ: Herberger Theater, 18 March 2023.
Review Of Bareface, David Bates
Review Of Bareface, David Bates
Sehnsucht: The C. S. Lewis Journal
Review of C. S. Lewis, Bareface (Proposed title for Till We Have Faces). Produced by Ballet 5:8. Choreography and Lighting by Julianna Rubio Slager. Costumes by Lorianne Robertson. Props by Sarah L. Freeman. Chicago, United States: Harris Theatre, 22 April 2023.
Review Of The Nature Of Middle-Earth, Brenton D.G. Dickieson
Review Of The Nature Of Middle-Earth, Brenton D.G. Dickieson
Sehnsucht: The C. S. Lewis Journal
Review of J. R. R. Tolkien, The Nature of Middle-earth, ed. by Carl Hostetter (New York: Mariner Books, 2021). 464 pages, including appendices and index. $32.00. ISBN 9780358454601.
Review Of A Narnian Vision Of The Atonement: A Defense Of The Ransom Theory, William Gentrup
Review Of A Narnian Vision Of The Atonement: A Defense Of The Ransom Theory, William Gentrup
Sehnsucht: The C. S. Lewis Journal
Review of Charles Taliaferro, A Narnian Vision of the Atonement: A Defense of the Ransom Theory (Eugene, OR: Cascade Books, 2022). 134 pages. $37.00. ISBN 9781666796537.
Review Of The Lion's Country: C.S. Lewis's Theory Of The Real, David N. Beckmann
Review Of The Lion's Country: C.S. Lewis's Theory Of The Real, David N. Beckmann
Sehnsucht: The C. S. Lewis Journal
Review of Charlie W. Starr, The Lion’s Country: C. S. Lewis’s Theory of the Real (Kent, OH; Kent State University Press, 2022). 132 pages. $18.95. ISBN 9781606354537.
Review Of The Man Born To Be King: Wade Annotated Edition, Barbara L. Prescott
Review Of The Man Born To Be King: Wade Annotated Edition, Barbara L. Prescott
Sehnsucht: The C. S. Lewis Journal
Review of Dorothy L. Sayers, The Man Born to Be King: Wade Annotated Edition, ed. by Kathryn Wehr (Downers Grove, IL: InterVarsity Press, 2023). 464 pages. $43.49. ISBN 9781514005330.
Review Of C.S. Lewis In America: Readings And Reception, 1935-1947, Gina Dalfonzo
Review Of C.S. Lewis In America: Readings And Reception, 1935-1947, Gina Dalfonzo
Sehnsucht: The C. S. Lewis Journal
Review of Mark Noll, C. S. Lewis in America: Readings and Reception, 1935 –1947 (Donovan Grove, IL: InterVarsity Press, 2023). 176 pages. $20.00. ISBN 9781514007006.
Review Of Mere Evangelism, Monique Stam
Review Of Mere Evangelism, Monique Stam
Sehnsucht: The C. S. Lewis Journal
Review of Randy Newman, Mere Evangelism, (Charlotte, NC: The Good Book Company, 2021). 160 pages. $16.99. ISBN 9781784986445.
Review Of The Case For Aslan: Evidence For Jesus In The Land Of Narnia, Brian C. Roden
Review Of The Case For Aslan: Evidence For Jesus In The Land Of Narnia, Brian C. Roden
Sehnsucht: The C. S. Lewis Journal
Review of David Marshall, The Case for Aslan: Evidence for Jesus in the Land of Narnia (Tampa, FL: DeWard Publishing Company, 2022). 219 pages. $14.99. ISBN 9781947929210.
Review Of Inkling, Historian, Soldier, And Brother: A Life Of Warren Hamilton Lewis, Crystal Hurd
Review Of Inkling, Historian, Soldier, And Brother: A Life Of Warren Hamilton Lewis, Crystal Hurd
Sehnsucht: The C. S. Lewis Journal
Review of Don King, Inkling, Historian, Soldier, and Brother: A Life of Warren Hamilton Lewis (Kent, OH: Kent State University Press, 2023). 193 pages, including Epilogue, Notes, Bibliography, and Index. $45.00. ISBN 9781606354506.
Review Of The Abolition Of Man: The Deluxe Edition, John Stanifer
Review Of The Abolition Of Man: The Deluxe Edition, John Stanifer
Sehnsucht: The C. S. Lewis Journal
Review of Carson Grubaugh, Midjourney AI, Sean Michael Robinson, and Luciano Floridi, The Abolition of Man: The Deluxe Edition (St. Paul, Minnesota: Living the Line, 2023). 228 pages, including an Afterword to each issue and essays. $35.00. ISBN 9781736860571.
Review Of The Major And The Missionary: The Letters Of Warren Hamilton Lewis And Blanche Biggs, Crystal Hurd
Review Of The Major And The Missionary: The Letters Of Warren Hamilton Lewis And Blanche Biggs, Crystal Hurd
Sehnsucht: The C. S. Lewis Journal
Review of Diana Glyer, ed., The Major and the Missionary: The Letters of Warren Hamilton Lewis and Blanche Biggs (Nashville: Rabbit Room Press, 2023). 277 pages, including “Afterword” and Index. $18.00. ISBN 9781951872205.
Review Of The Chronicles Of Transformation: A Spiritual Journey With C.S. Lewis, Josiah Peterson
Review Of The Chronicles Of Transformation: A Spiritual Journey With C.S. Lewis, Josiah Peterson
Sehnsucht: The C. S. Lewis Journal
Review of Leonard J. DeLorenzo, ed. The Chronicles of Transformation: A Spiritual Journey with C.S. Lewis (San Francisco: Ignatius, 2022). 251 pages. $17.95. ISBN 9781621645351.
Surprised By Similarity: C.S. Lewis And Thomas Merton On The Self, John M. Gillespie
Surprised By Similarity: C.S. Lewis And Thomas Merton On The Self, John M. Gillespie
Sehnsucht: The C. S. Lewis Journal
Although they never corresponded, and they never met, the Anglican professor C.S. Lewis and the Trappist monk Thomas Merton nevertheless wrote in strikingly similar terms of the “true self,” or a person redeemed by Christ, and a “false self,” the rebellious person one believes themselves to be, but is not. There is very little academic work on the confluence of Lewis and Merton, and none thus far that specifically addresses their shared concept of the self. The aim of this paper is to address this gap in scholarship and, through an intertextual investigation of each man’s major works, fill it. …