Mythlore 135 Volume 38, Issue 1
Fall/Winter 2019
Table of Contents
Editorial
— Janet Brennan Croft
The Arch and the Keystone
— Verlyn Flieger
An Unexpected Poet: The Creative Works of Dr. Robert E. Havard
— Sarah O’Dell
Notes and Letters
In Memoriam: Jared Lobdell, Richard C. West
Innocence in Lewis’s Perelandra and Twain’s King Arthur’s Court, S. Dorman
Extreme Minimalism in The Lord of the Rings, Pierre H. Berube
Mirkwood, John V. Orth
Reviews
Doors In: The Fairy Tale World of George MacDonald, by Rolland Hein, Joe Young
The Lamp-Post of the Southern California C.S. Lewis Society, Janet Brennan Croft
Fantastic Creatures in Mythology and Folklore: From Medieval Times to the Present Day, by Juliette Wood, Tiffany Brooke Martin
H.P. Lovecraft: Selected Works, Critical Perspectives and Interviews on His Influence, edited by Leverett Butts, Perry Neil Harrison
The Echo of Odin: Norse Mythology and Human Consciousness, by Edward W.I. Smith, Emily E. Auger
The Fame of C.S. Lewis: A Controversialist’s Reception in Britain and America, by Stephanie L. Derrick, Chad Chisholm
Gods and Robots: Myths, Machines, and Ancient Dreams of Technology, by Adrienne Mayor, Emily E. Auger
Special Issue Contents:
Mythopoeic Children’s Literature
Introduction
— Donna White
The Child’s Voyage and the Immram Tradition in Lewis, Tolkien, and Pullman
— Kris Swank
Doubles at Work: The Three Rovers in J.R.R. Tolkien’s Roverandom
— Jennifer Marchant
The Talking Beasts as Adam and Eve: Lewis and the Complexity of “Dominion”
— Jean E. Graham
Pyramids in America: Rewriting the “Egypt of the West” in Rick Riordan’s The Kane Chronicles Series
— Heather L. Cyr
A Sense of Darker Perspective: How the Marauders Convey Tolkien’s “Impression of Depth” in Harry Potter and the Prisoner of Azkaban
— Katherine Sas
Dobby the Robot: The Science Fiction in Harry Potter
— Emily Strand
“What Man am I?” The Hero’s Journey, the Beginning of Individuation, and Taran Wanderer
— Liam Butchart
Blowing the Morte: The Rites of Manhood in William Rayner’s Stag Boy
— Christophe Van Eecke
Death, Hope, and Wholeness in Owen Barfield’s Fairy Tales
— Tiffany Brooke Martin
Notes
Mythology in Children’s Animation, David L. Emerson
Reviews
War, Myths, and Fairy Tales, edited by Sara Buttsworth and Maartje Abbenhuis, Felicia Jean Steele
Shapers of American Childhood: Essays on Visionaries from L. Frank Baum to Dr. Spock to J.K. Rowling, edited by Kathy Merlock Jackson and Mark I. West, David Lenander
Justice in Young Adult Speculative Fiction: A Cognitive Reading, by Marek Oziewicz, Zachary Dilbeck
Marvelous Geometry: Narrative and Metafiction in Modern Fairy Tale, by Jessica Tiffin, Felicia Jean Steele
The Pleasures of Metamorphosis: Japanese and English Fairy Tale Transformations of “The Little Mermaid”, by Lucy Fraser, Bianca Beronio
Girl Warriors: Feminist Revisions of the Hero’s Quest in Contemporary Popular Culture, by Svenja Hohenstein, Maria Alberto
The Fabulous Journeys of Alice and Pinocchio: Exploring Their Parallel Worlds, by Laura Tosi with Peter Hunt, Bianca Beronio
