CFP Sons & Daughters of Narnia Conference (9/4/2023; Ireland 11/13-14/2023)

Sons & Daughters of Narnia: Tracing CS Lewis's Literary Influence into the 21st Century

deadline for submissions:
September 4, 2023

full name / name of organization:
Ulster University

contact email:
White-C36@ulster.ac.uk


source: https://call-for-papers.sas.upenn.edu/cfp/2023/03/05/sons-daughters-of-narnia-tracing-cs-lewiss-literary-influence-into-the-21st-century

This will be the 2nd Annual CS Lewis Symposium at Ulster University

To be held: 13-14, November 2023

Location: Ulster University, Coleraine, Northern Ireland (United Kingdom)

*Please Note: this will be an in-person event; at present, we cannot accommodate virtual/remote participation.

Keynote: to be delivered by Dr Malcolm Guite (Cambridge University) and Professor Jerry Root (Wheaton College)

Rationale:

This two-day, public-facing academic symposium aims to examine CS Lewis in the light of his influence upon 20th & 21st century writers— those working in genres as varied as children’s fiction, sci-fi, literary and cultural criticism, popular apologetics, and even poetry. The central organising metaphor for the event is that of genealogy—the passing down to successive generations of the essences, qualities and characteristics which one inherits. Drawing upon this central metaphor, we will examine both the way in which Lewis was shaped by his own set of literary influences, and how he transmitted (and transmuted) these influences, through his own work, to writers throughout the world—in a way which almost recalls T.S. Eliot’s description of literary communion in ‘Tradition and the Individual Talent’. Our hope is that this ‘Janus-like’ approach—looking simultaneously back to Lewis’s ‘forbears’, and forward to his ‘sons and daughters’— will offer scholars working in diverse areas of Lewis research ample opportunity to carve out topics suited to their own interests.

Call for Papers:

We invite proposals of up to 250 words for 20-minute papers on some aspect of our theme. Submissions are welcome from scholars at every career stage, from ECR to well-established. Please include a brief bio with submission.

Email proposals to: White-C36@ulster.ac.uk by 5pm 04 September 2023



Last updated March 8, 2023

Mythlore for Fall/Winter 2022

The Fall/Winter 2022 issue of Mythlore is now available. I've provided the full content below. Ordering information can be found on the Mythopoeic Society's website at this link.

Mythlore 141 Volume 41, Issue 1
Fall/Winter 2022

Table of Contents

Editorial
— Janet Brennan Croft

Notes of an Inklings Scholar: Musings on Myth and History, Promises and Secrecy, Ethical Reviewing, and the Limits of Authorial Intent
— David Bratman

David Lindsay’s The Violet Apple
— Eric Wills

History in the Margins: Epigraphs and Negative Space in Robin Hobb’s Assassin’s Apprentice
— Matthew Oliver

Echoing Ecopoetics: Fantasy Literature’s Background Sounds
— Catherine Olver

“Read this Book, and You Will Find All the Grand and Marvelous Things to be Found”: A Song of Ice and Fire and Medieval Travelogues
— Elisabeth Brander

Haunted Manikins and the Hero(es) Within: The Modern Romantic Hero as the Divinely Inspired Person Inside the Personality
— Mikaela von Kursell

“Delight in Horror”: Charles Williams and Russell Kirk on Hell and the Supernatural
— Camilo Peralta

Tellers of Dark Fairy Tales: Common Themes in the Works of Terence Fisher and C.S. Lewis
— G. Connor Salter

“What Happened to Battles are Ugly Affairs?”: Fighting Girls in the Films The Chronicles of Narnia, Chapters 1, 2, and 3
— Anne-Frédérique Mochel-Caballero

“The Evil Side of Heroic Life”: Monsters and Heroes in Beowulf and The Hobbit
— Catherine Hall

Goddess and Mortal: The Celtic and the French Morgan Le Fay in Tolkien’s Silmarillion
— Clare Moore

“Well, I’m Back”: Samwise Gamgee and the Future of Tolkien’s Literary Pastoral
— MG Prezioso

Notes

The Nurse of Elfland: Lizzie Endicott and C.S. Lewis — Reggie Weems
What Sam Said — David Bratman

Reviews

Tolkien, Race, and Racism in Middle-earth by Robert Stuart — Robert T. Tally, Jr.
Queering Faith in Fantasy Literature: Fantastic Incarnations and the Deconstruction of Theology by Taylor Driggers — C. Palmer-Patel
Friendship in The Lord of the Rings by Cristina Casagrande — Mark A. Brians II
Charles Williams and C.S. Lewis: Friends in Co-Inherence by Paul S. Fiddes — Tiffany Brooke Martin
The Writer’s Map: An Atlas of Imaginary Lands by Huw Lewis-Jones — Susan M. Moore
Dante’s Dream: A Jungian Psychoanalytical Approach by Gwenyth E. Hood — Liam Butchart
The Modern Myths: Adventures in the Machinery of the Popular Imagination by Phillip Ball — Janet Brennan Croft
Tolkien as a Literary Artist: Exploring Rhetoric, Language and Style in The Lord Of The Rings by Thomas Kullmann and Dirk Siepmann — Sharon L. Bolding
Two Sagas of Mythical Heroes: Hervor and Heidrek and Hrolf Kraki and His Companions translated and edited by Jackson Crawford, and Norse Mythology by Jackson Crawford — Phillip Fitzsimmons

Briefly Noted:

Is Superman Circumcised? The Complete Jewish History of the World’s Greatest Hero by Roy Schwartz — G. Connor Salter
Flying Snakes and Griffin Claws: And Other Classical Myths, Historical Oddities, and Scientific Curiosities by Adrienne Mayor — Janet Brennan Croft

Out Now - Mythlore 140

Mythlore 140 Volume 40, Issue 2

Spring/Summer 2022

source: https://www.mythsoc.org/mythlore/mythlore-140.htm.

Information on purchasing this issue appears on the Mythopoeic Society website. Click the link above for details. 

    

Table of Contents

Editorial

— Janet Brennan Croft

“One Aims at the Officers First”: Reassessing the Relationship of C.S. Lewis and T.S. Eliot

— Ben Reinhard

Being Psyche: The Jungian Soul in Glome

— Kelly Webber

Who is Merlin? A Closer Look at the Character in Charles Williams’s Taliessin Poetry

— Joseph Thompson

The Wheel of Power in HBO’s Game of Thrones

— Inbar Shaham

Sterner Stuff: Sansa Stark and the System of Gothic Fantasy

— Joseph Rex Young

A Lost Tale, A Found Influence: Earendel and Tinúviel

— Verlyn Flieger

Soup, Bones, and Shakespeare: Literary Authorship and Allusion in Middle-earth

— Owen Dugan and James Krasner

Tolkien and Bakhtin: Symphony of Time in The Lord of the Rings

— Olesky (Alex) Ostaltsev

Seeing Double: Tolkien and the Indo-European Divine Twins

— Kristine Larsen

Círdan the Shipwright: Tolkien’s Bodhisattva Who Brings Us to the Other Shore

— Douglas Charles Kane

Notes and Letters

A Note on Ursula K. Le Guin’s Daoist Interests — Robert Steed

The Tao Masters Who Walk Away from Omelas — Sabina Schrynemakers

A Queer Atheist Feminist Autist Responds to Donald Williams’s “Keystone or Cornerstone? A Rejoinder to Verlyn Flieger on the Alleged ‘Conflicting Sides’ of Tolkien’s Singular Self” — Robin A. Reid

Reviews

Abolishing Man in Other Worlds by Courtney Petrucci, Deeper Heaven: A Reader’s Guide by Christiana Hale, and A Compass for Deep Heaven edited by Diana Pavlac Glyer and Julianne Johnson — Josiah Peterson

No Ordinary People: 21 Friendships of C.S. Lewis by Joel D. Heck — James Stockton

The Undiscovered C.S. Lewis edited by Bruce R. Johnson — Melody Green

Correspondence: 1927-1987 by Joseph Campbell — Phillip Fitzsimmons

Pamela Colman Smith: Tarot Artist by Dawn C. Robinson, and Pamela Colman Smith: Artist, Feminist, and Mystic by Elizabeth Foley O’Connor — Emily E. Auger

Dorothy L. Sayers, A Biography by Colin Duriez, and Dorothy and Jack by Gina Dalfonzo — G. Connor Salter

Ethics and Form in Fantasy Literature by Lykke Guanio-Uluru — Phillip Fitzsimmons

Tolkien and the Sea: Proceedings edited by Richard Cranshaw and Shaun Gunner — Kris Swank

Pagan Saints in Middle-earth by Claudio A. Testi — Toni Thibodeaux

Middle-earth, or There and Back Again by Łukasz Neubauer — Giovanni Costabile

A Sense of Tales Untold by Peter Grybauskas — Robert T. Tally Jr.

Tolkien and the Classical World edited by Hamish Williams — Larry Swain

Musical Scores and the Eternal Present by Chiara Bertoglio — John Wm. Houghton

Leadership in Middle-earth by Michael J. Urick — Alana White

Now Available Mythlore 139

Recently received from the Mythopoeic Society was Mythlore issue 139 for Fall/Winter 2021. The issue can be purchased directly at https://www.mythsoc.org/mythlore/mythlore-139.htm. The contents listed below are from the same site.

Mythlore 139 Volume 40, Issue 1 (Fall/Winter 2021)

Table of Contents

Editorial

— Janet Brennan Croft

All Worthy Things: The Personhood of Nature in J.R.R. Tolkien’s Legendarium

— Sofia Parrila

The Shape of Water in J.R.R. Tolkien’s The Lord of the Rings

— Norbert Schürer

Mirrors to the Underworld: Reflective Portals between Life and Death in the Harry Potter Series

— Trenton J. McNulty

Lewis and Clarke in the Caves: Art and Platonic Worlds in Piranesi

— Julie M. Dugger

Just Reading A Spell for Chameleon: An Appreciation with Caveats, and an Elegy

— Dennis Wilson Wise

Responsibility and Critical Thinking as Markers of Adulthood in Two Coming-of-Age Fantasy Series: Terry Pratchett’s Tiffany Aching Novels and Jonathan Stroud’s Bartimeus Trilogy

— Anna Köhler

The Conscience of Solomon Kane: Robert E. Howard’s Rhetorics of Motive, World, and Race

— Gabriel Mamola

But Where Shall Wisdom be Found? The Lord of the Rings and the Wisdom Literature of the Hebrew Bible

— Mattie E. Gustafson

“Taliessin in the Rose-Garden”: A Symbolic Analysis

— Joseph Thompson

The Enigmatic Loss of Proto-Hobbitic

— Thomas Honegger

How Tolkien Saved His Neck: A lusinghe Proposition to the Oxford Dante Society

— John R. Holmes

Notes and Letters

Keystone or Cornerstone? A Rejoinder to Verlyn Flieger on the Alleged “Conflicting Sides” of Tolkien’s Singular Self — Donald T. Williams

A Holiday by the Sea: In Search of Cair Paravel — Reggie Weems

Jane Austen’s Lady Susan as a Possible Source of Inspiration behind C.S. Lewis’s The Screwtape Letters — Song (Joseph) Cho

Review Essay

Women Tarot Artists Inspired by the Golden Dawn: Recent Publications — Emily E. Auger

Reviews

Tolkien’s Modern Reading by Holly Ordway — Kris Swank

The Flight of the Wild Gander by Joseph Campbell — Phillip Fitzsimmons

God and the Gothic by Alison Milbank — Douglas A. Anderson

The Saga of the Volsungs: With the Saga of Ragnar Lothrok, translated by Jackson Crawford — Phillip Fitzsimmons

Tolkien the Pagan? Reading Middle-earth through a Spiritual Lens, edited by Anna Milon — Alana White

Re-Orienting the Fairy Tale: Contemporary Adaptations across Cultures, edited by Mayako Murai and Luciana Cardi — Nada Kujundžić

George MacDonald’s Children’s Fantasies and the Divine Imagination by Colin Manlove — Tiffany Brooke Martin

The Cards: The Evolution and Power of Tarot by Patrick Maille — Emily E. Auger

Terry Pratchett’s Ethical Worlds, edited by Kristin Noone and Emily Lavin Leverett — Felicity Gilbert

Briefly Noted:

Thanks for Typing, edited by Jukliana Dresvina, and In and Out of Bloomsbury by Martin Ferguson Smith — Janet Brennan Croft

Encyclopedia of Mythical Objects by Theresa Bane — John Zacharias

The Shared Witness of C.S. Lewis and Austin Farrer by Phillip Irving Mitchell — Landon Loftin

Mythlore for Fall/Winter 2020

Here are the details on the most recent issue of Mythlore.

Purchase information is available on the content page.

 

Mythlore 137 Volume 39, Issue 1 (Fall/Winter 2020)

http://www.mythsoc.org/mythlore/mythlore-137.htm

Table of Contents

Editorial
— Janet Brennan Croft

A Cosmic Shift in The Screwtape Letters
— Brenton D.G. Dickieson

“I woulde be there / Byyonde the water”: Consolation in Pearl and The Silver Chair
— Tiffany E. Schubert

“No Sex Please, We’re Narnians”: Turkish Delight, Twelfth Night, and the Problem of Susan
— Andy Gordon

Useful Little Men: George R.R. Martin’s Dwarfs as Grotesque Realists
— Joseph Rex Young

The Inner Consistency of Mythology: The Mythological Kernel and Adaptation in The Golden Compass
— Douglas A. Barnim

Tom Bombadil and the Spirit of Objectivity
— Dani Inkpen

“Her Enchanted Hair”: Rossetti, “Lady Lilith,” and the Victorian Fascination with Hair as Influences on Tolkien
— Kathryn Colvin

The “Polish Inkling”: Professor Przemysław Mroczkowski as J.R.R. Tolkien’s Friend and Scholar
— Łukasz Neubauer

Tolkien’s Lost Knights
— Ben Reinhard

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Reviews

• Utopian and Dystopian Themes in Tolkien’s Legendarium, by Mark Doyle — Robert T. Tally Jr.
• Music in Tolkien’s Work and Beyond, edited by Julian Eilmann and Friedhelm Schneidewind — Megan N. Fontenot
• Hobbit Virtues: Rediscovering Virtue Ethics through J.R.R. Tolkien’s The Hobbit and The Lord of the Rings, by Christopher A. Snyder — Zachary D. Schmoll
• Michael Moorcock: Fiction, Fantasy and the World’s Pain by Mark Scroggins, and The Law of Chaos: The Multiverse of Michael Moorcock by Jeff Gardiner — David L. Emerson
• Myth-Building in Modern Media: The Role of the Mytharc in Imagined Worlds, by A.J. Black — Maria Alberto
• The Nibelungenlied: with The Klage, translated by William T. Whobrey — Larry J. Swain
• The Worlds of J.R.R. Tolkien: The Places That Inspired Middle-earth, by John Garth — Mike Foster
• Briefly Noted: A Dictionary of Symbols: Revised and Expanded, by Juan Eduardo Cirlot — Janet Brennan Croft
Reality, Magic, and Other Lies: Fairy-Tale Film Truths, by Pauline Greenhill — Alissa Renales

 

 

Mythlore Fall/Winter 2019

Here are the details on the latest issue of Mythlore. The issue can be purchased from the Mythopoeic Society at http://www.mythsoc.org/mythlore/mythlore-135.htm. The content is also accessible as part of the SWOSU Digital Commons at https://dc.swosu.edu/mythlore/vol38/iss1/.


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

Mythlore for Spring/Summer 2019 Now Available

The latest number of Mythlore has arrived. Full contents follow. The issue may be purchased direct at: http://www.mythsoc.org/mythlore/mythlore-134.htm.



Mythlore 134 Volume 37, Issue 2
Spring/Summer 2019


Table of Contents

Editorial
— Janet Brennan Croft

Mythlore at Fifty
— Janet Brennan Croft

On the Shoulders of Gi(E)nts: The Joys of Bibliographic Scholarship and Fanzines in Tolkien Studies
— Robin Anne Reid

On the Shoulders of Humphrey Carpenter: Reconsidering Biographical Representation and Scholarly Perception of Edith Tolkien
— Nicole M. duPlessis

The Last Serialist: C.S. Lewis and J.W. Dunne
— Guy Inchbald

Saruman as ‘Sophist’ or Sophist Foil? Tolkien’s Wizards and the Ethics of Persuasion
— Chad Chisholm

Gunslinger Roland from Yeat’s Towers Came(?): A Little-Studied Influence on Stephen King’s Dark Tower Series
— Abigail L. Montgomery

“Auntie, What Ails Thee?”: The Parzival Question in Orphan Black
— Janet Brennan Croft


Notes and Letters

An Unsourced Poem in Lewis’s Great Divorce, Pierre H. Berube

Narnian Stars, Ruth Berman

In Memoriam: Nancy-Lou Patterson, Janet Brennan Croft


Review Essays

Navigating the Carte du Tendre in Fairy Tale: A Very Short Introduction by Marina Warner, Barbara Prescott

Inklings, a King, and an Unsurprising Prize: The Inklings and King Arthur, edited by Sørina Higgins, Jared Lobdell


Reviews

Tolkien, Self and Other: “This Queer Creature” by Jane Chance and Tolkien and Alterity, edited by Christopher Vaccaro and Yvette Kisor, Jason Fisher

The Lion in the Waste Land: Fearsome Redemption in the Works of C.S. Lewis, Dorothy L. Sayers, and T.S. Eliot by Janice Brown, Jim Stockton

Goddesses: Mysteries of the Feminine Divine by Joseph Cambell, Carl Badgley

“The Sweet and the Bitter”: Death and Dying in J.R.R. Tolkien’s The Lord of the Rings by Amy Ament-Raduege, Laura Lee Smith

Fire and Snow: Climate Fiction from the Inklings to Game of Thrones, by Marc DiPaolo, Kristine Larsen

The Great Tower of Elfland: The Mythopoeic Worldview of J.R.R. Tolkien, C.S. Lewis, G.K.
Chesterton, and George MacDonald, by Zachary A. Rhone, Felicia Jane Steele

C.S. Lewis: A Very Short Introduction, by James Como, Zachary A. Rhone

Pamela Colman Smith: The Untold Story, by Stuart R. Kaplan et al., Emily E. Auger

Women Who Fly: Goddesses, Witches, Mystics, and Other Airborne Females, by Serinity Young, Felicity Gilbert

Briefly Noted: The Place of the Lion and War in Heaven by Charles Williams, Janet Brennan Croft

Special Issue of Mythlore: Mythopoeic Children's Literature (deadline extended to 4/15/2019)

Special Issue of Mythlore: Mythopoeic Children's Literature
https://www.academia.edu/36864712/Special_Issue_of_Mythlore_Mythopoeic_Childrens_Literature

Special Issue of Mythlore, Fall 2019
Guest Edited by Donna R. White
** Deadline Extended: April 15, 2019 ** Final paper deadline: June 30, 2019 **


Mythlore, a journal dedicated to the genres of myth and fantasy (particularly the works of J.R.R. Tolkien and C.S. Lewis), invites article submissions for a special issue focused on children’s literature. Children’s fantasy has always been a part of mythopoeic literature, and Mythlore
has occasionally published articles about myth-building children’s writers such as J.K. Rowling and Nancy Farmer; however, this special issue will focus specifically on mythopoeic literature for children.


As always, we welcome essays on The Chronicles of Narnia and The Hobbit, but we also encourage articles that discuss the works of other mythopoeic writers for young readers.Classic works like
Peter Pan and The Wind in the Willows have clear mythopoeic elements,as do modern fantasies by Philip Pullman, Diana Wynne Jones, Lloyd Alexander, and many others. Studies of lesser-known writers like Carol Kendall are also welcome. 

To get an idea of the range of topics covered in Mythlore, visit the online archive at https://dc.swosu.edu/mythlore/ and consult the electronic index, which can be downloaded free at http://www.mythsoc.org/press/mythlore-index-plus.htm. Submission guidelines can be found at http://www.mythsoc.org/mythlore/mythlore-submissions.htm. 

Send queries and questions to Donna R. White, dwhite@atu.edu. Drafts and final papers should be submitted via https://dc.swosu.edu/mythlore/. 

Mythlore Fall/Winter 2018

Details on the latest number of Mythlore. Full ordering information at http://www.mythsoc.org/mythlore/mythlore-133.htm.


Mythlore 133 Volume 37, Issue 1
Fall/Winter 2018


Table of Contents Editorial
— Janet Brennan Croft

The Process of Salvation in Pearl and The Great Divorce
— Amber Dunai

Paradise Retold: Lewis’s Reimagining of Milton, Eden, and Eve
— Benita Huffman Muth

“No Pagan Ever Loved His God”: Tolkien, Thompson, and the Beautification of the Gods
— Megan Fontenot

Turning Back the Tides: The Anglo-Saxon Vice of Ofermod in Tolkien’s Fall of Arthur
— Colin J. Cutler

Nazis in the Shire: Tolkien and Satire
— Jerome Donnelly

Tolkien’s Gimpy Heroes
— Victoria Holtz Wodzak

A Cloud of Witnesses: External Mediation in Frodo’s Journey to Rivendell and Beyond
— Carl P. Olson

A Modern Fairy-story: Jonathan Strange & Mr Norrell Seen through the Prism of Tolkien’s Classic Essay
— Douglas Charles Kane

The Romance and the Real: A.S. Byatt’s Possession: A Romance
— Jordana Long

Neil Gaiman’s American Gods: A Postmodern Epic for America
— Susan Gorman

Paul Edwin Zimmer’s Alliterative Style: A Metrical Legacy of J.R.R. Tolkien and Poul Anderson
— Dennis Wilson Wise


Notes and Letters

• Back to the Beginning: Rudyard Kipling’s Story of the Invention of Writing, Marie Nelson
• On Julian Eilmann’s J.R.R. Tolkien: Romanticist and Poet, Reviewed by Kris Swank in Mythlore #132, Nancy Martsch
• Bilingual Puns in The Lord of the Rings, Pierre H. Berube
• Reviews
• Phantastes: Annotated Edition by George MacDonald, edited by John Pennington and Roderick McGillis, Tiffany Brooke Martin
• The Faun’s Bookshelf: C.S. Lewis on Why Myth Matters by Charlie H. Starr, Louis Markos
• Christian Mythmakers: C.S. Lewis. Madeleine L’Engle, J.R.R. Tolkien, C.S Lewis, et al. (2nd ed.) by Rolland Hein, Sharon L. Bolding
• Death and Immortality in Middle-earth, edited by Daniel Helen, Mike Foster
• The Gothic Fairy Tale in Young Adult Literature: Essays on Stories from Grimm to Gaiman, edited by Joseph Abbruscato and Tanya Jones, Maria Alberto
• Both Sides of the Wardrobe: C.S. Lewis, Theological Imagination, and Everyday Discipleship, edited by Rob Fennell, S. Dorman
• Discworld and the Disciplines: Critical Approaches to the Terry Pratchett Works, edited by Anne Hiebert Alton and William C. Spruiell, Janet Brennan Croft
• The Hobbit and Tolkien’s Mythology, edited by Bradford Lee Eden, David L. Emerson
• Medievalism in A Song of Ice and Fire and Game of Thrones by Shiloh Carroll, Joseph Young
• Poetry and Song in the Works of J.R.R. Tolkien, edited by Anna Milon, Diane Joy Baker
• Briefly Noted: Tolkien: Maker of Middle-earth, edited by Catherine McIlwaine; The Complete Fairy Tales by Charles Perrault, edited by Christopher Betts; The Mabinogion, translated by Sioned Davies; Janet Brennan Croft

Mythlore 132 Contents

Catching up again. Here are the details of the Spring/Summer 2018 issue of Mythlore. Ordering information at http://www.mythsoc.org/mythlore/mythlore-132.htm.


Mythlore 132 Volume 36, Issue 2
Spring/Summer 2018


Editorial
— Janet Brennan Croft

Tyrion Lannister: A Fulcrum of Balance in George R.R. Martin’s A Song of Ice and Fire
— Patricia Monk

“Love of Knowledge is a Kind of Madness”: Competing Platonisms in the Universes of C.S. Lewis and H.P. Lovecraft
— Guillaume Bogiaris

Allegorical Reference to Oxford University through Classical Myth in the Early Poetry of Dorothy L. Sayers: A Reading of “Alma Mater” from OP. I.
— Barbara L. Prescott

On Superhero Stories: The Marvel Cinematic Universe as Tolkienesque Fantasy
— A.G. Holdier

Bilbo Baggins and the Forty Thieves: The Reworking of Folktale Motifs in The Hobbit (and The Lord of the Rings)
— Giovanni Carmine Costabile


Notes and Letters

Ursula K. Le Guin: An Appreciation, David Bratman
Ursula K. Le Guin in Mythlore, Janet Brennan Croft
“The Valley of the Na,” Pat Wynne, from Mythlore #56 (Winter 1988)
Reviews
J.R.R. Tolkien: Romanticist and Poet by Julian Eilmann, Kris Swank
C.S. Lewis and Christian Postmodernism by Kyoko Yuasa, Peter G. Epps
Owen Barfield: Philosophy, Poetry, and Theology by Michael Vincent Di Fucca, Tiffany Brooke Martin
Scotland’s Forgotten Treasure: The Visionary Romances of George MacDonald by Colin Manlove, Bonnie Gaarden
English People by Owen Barfield, Narnia and the Fields of Arbol by Matthew Dickerson and David O’Hara, and The Mythic Dimension by Joseph Campbell, Phillip Fitzsimmons
C.S. Lewis and the Art of Writing by Corey Latta, Tiffany Brooke Martin
C.S. Lewis and the Arts: Creativity in the Shadowlands, edited by Rod Miller, Michael David Prevett
Game of Thrones Versus History: Written in Blood by Brian Pavlac, Joseph Young
Detecting Wimsey: Papers on Dorothy L. Sayers’s Detective Fiction by Nancy-Lou Patterson, edited by Emily E. Auger and Janet Brennan Croft, Joe R. Christopher
Goddess and Grail: The Battle for Arthur’s Promised Land by Jeffrey John Dixon, Kris Swank





SPECIAL SECTION ON DIVINATION IN FANTASY

Introduction: Divination and Prophecy in Mythopoeic Fantasy
— Emily E. Auger

Letting Sleeping Abnormalities Lie: Lovecraft and the Futility of Divination
— Carol S. Matthews

Tarot and T.S. Eliot in Stephen King’s Dark Tower Novels
— Emily E. Auger

The Unlikely Milliner and the Magician of Threadneedle-street
— K.A. Laity


Notes
An Annotated List of Fantasy Novels Incorporating Tarot (1968-1989), Emily E. Auger
Divination and Prophecy in The Lord of the Rings: Some Observations, Robert Field Tredray

Reviews
Divination and Human Nature by Peter T. Struck, Larry Swain
The Tarot of the Future by Arthur Rosengarten, Emily E. Auger 

Mythlore 131 Contents

Catching up. Here are the contents to the Fall/Winter 2017 number of Mythlore. The issue can be purchased from the Mythopoeic Society at http://www.mythsoc.org/mythlore/mythlore-131.htm.


Mythlore 131 Volume 36, Issue 1
Fall/Winter 2017
Table of Contents

Editorial
— Janet Brennan Croft

Treasure in the Archives: A Celebration of Archival Collections
— Laura Schmidt

“Things That Were, and Things That Are, and Things That Yet May Be”: The J.R.R. Tolkien Manuscript Collection at Marquette University
— William M. Fliss

Into the Wild Woods: On the Significance of Trees and Forests in Fantasy Fiction
— Weronika Łaszkiewicz

“Countries of the Mind”: The Mundane, the Fantastic, and Reality in the Landscapes of Diana Wynne Jones’s Hexwood and Garth Nix’s Old Kingdom Series
— Brittani Ivan

“Morning Stars of a Setting World”: Alain de Lille’s De Planctu Naturæ and Tolkien’s Legendarium as Neo-Platonic Mythopoeia
— Christopher Vaccaro

“A Warp of Horror”: J.R.R. Tolkien’s Sub-creation of Evil
— Richard Angelo Bergen

“Your Mother Died to Save You”: The Influence of Mothers in Constructing Moral Frameworks for Violence in Harry Potter
— Margaret S. Mauk

J.R.R. Tolkien and the 1954 Nomination of E.M. Forster for the Nobel Prize in Literature
— Dennis Wilson Wise

Maleldil and Reader Response in C.S. Lewis’s Out of the Silent Planet
— Thomas Rand

Three Rings for the Elven-kings: Trilogizing Tolkien in Print and Film
— Robert T. Tally


Notes and Letters
Hugo Dyson: An Update, David Bratman
Robert E. Havard: A Closer Look at the “Medical Inkling,” Sarah O’Dell
Memories of Clyde Kilby, Mike Foster
A Note on a Name, Verlyn Flieger
Letter to the Editor, J. Aleksandr Wootton

Reviews
Beren and Lúthien, Katherine Neville
Tolkien’s Theology of Beauty, Phillip Irving Mitchell
The Fantastic of the Fin de Siècle, Douglas A. Anderson
Laughter in Middle-earth, Janet Brennan Croft
Celtic Myth in Contemporary Children’s Fantasy, Glenn R. Gray
From Peterborough to Faery, David Emerson
The Ravenclaw Chronicles and Harry Potter for Nerds II, Jennifer W. Spirko
Deeper Magic, Diane Joy Baker
The Invention of Angela Carter, Dennis Wilson Wise
Forgotten Leaves: Essays from a Smial, Cait Coker
Tolkien Studies v.XIII, North Wind v.35, and VII v.33, Janet Brennan Croft

Briefly Noted, Janet Brennan Croft, Mike Foster

CFP Mythopoeic Children’s Literature, Special Issue of Mythlore (3/30/2019)

CFP: Mythopoeic Children’s Literature, Special Issue of Mythlore
https://www.fantastic-arts.org/2018/cfp-call-for-papers-mythopoeic-childrens-literature-special-issue-of-mythlore/
September 14, 2018

Call for Papers: Mythopoeic Children’s Literature, Special Issue of Mythlore

Fall 2019 Guest Edited by Donna R. White ** Draft Deadline: March 30, 2019 ** Final paper deadline: June 30, 2019 **

Mythlore, a journal dedicated to the genres of myth and fantasy (particularly the works of J.R.R. Tolkien and C.S. Lewis), invites article submissions for a special issue focused on children’s literature.

Children’s fantasy has always been a part of mythopoeic literature, and Mythlore has occasionally published articles about myth- building children’s writers such as J.K. Rowling and Nancy Farmer; however, this special issue will focus specifically on mythopoeic literature for children. As always, we welcome essays on The Chronicles of Narnia and The Hobbit, but we also encourage articles that discuss the works of other mythopoeic writers for young readers. Classic works like Peter Pan and The Wind in the Willows have clear mythopoeic elements, as do modern fantasies by Philip Pullman, Diana Wynne Jones, Lloyd Alexander, and many others. Studies of lesser known writers like Carol Kendall are also welcome. To get an idea of the range of topics covered in Mythlore, visit the online archive at https://dc.swosu.edu/mythlore/ and consult the electronic index, which can be downloaded free at http://www.mythsoc.org/press/mythlore-index-plus.htm Submission guidelines can be found at http://www.mythsoc.org/mythlore/mythlore-submissions.htm.

Send queries and questions to Donna R. White, dwhite@atu.edu. Drafts and final papers should be submitted via https://dc.swosu.edu/mythlore/

CFP Mythopoeic Children's and Young Adult Literature (Spec Issue of Mythlore) (3/30/2019)

Mythopoeic Children's and Young Adult Literature
https://call-for-papers.sas.upenn.edu/cfp/2018/06/18/mythopoeic-childrens-and-young-adult-literature

deadline for submissions: March 30, 2019

full name / name of organization: Mythopoeic Society

contact email: dwhite@atu.edu



Call for Papers: Mythopoeic Children’s and Young Adult Literature



Special Issue of Mythlore, Fall 2019

Guest Edited by Donna R. White

** Draft Deadline: March 30, 2019

** Final paper deadline: June 30, 2019



Mythlore, a journal dedicated to the genres of myth and fantasy (particularly the works of J.R.R. Tolkien and C.S. Lewis), invites article submissions for a special issue focused on children’s literature. Children’s fantasy has always been a part of mythopoeic literature, and Mythlore has occasionally published articles about myth-building children’s writers such as J.K. Rowling and Nancy Farmer; however, this special issue marks the first time we have focused specifically on mythopoeic literature for children and young adults.



As always, we welcome essays on The Chronicles of Narnia and The Hobbit, but we also encourage articles that discuss the works of other mythopoeic writers for young readers. Classic works like Peter Pan and The Wind in the Willows have clear mythopoeic elements, as do modern fantasies by Philip Pullman, Diana Wynne Jones, Lloyd Alexander, and many others. Studies of lesser known writers like Carol Kendall are also welcome.



To get an idea of the range of topics covered in Mythlore, visit the online archive at https://dc.swosu.edu/mythlore/

and consult the electronic index, which can be downloaded free at http://www.mythsoc.org/press/mythlore-index-plus.htm

Submission guidelines can be found at

http://www.mythsoc.org/mythlore/mythlore-submissions.htm



Send queries and questions to Donna R. White, dwhite@atu.edu.

Drafts and final papers should be submitted via https://dc.swosu.edu/mythlore/

Mythlore 130 Now Available

Sorry for not having posted in a while.

Here is a quick update on the latest number of Mythlore. It can be ordered direct from the Mythopoeic Society at http://www.mythsoc.org/mythlore/mythlore-130.htm.

Contents are as follows:


Mythlore 130, Volume 35, Issue 2 (Spring/Summer 2017)

Editorial
— Janet Brennan Croft

“Time to Prepare a Face”: Mythology Comes of Age
— Andrew Lazo

To Grow Together, or To Grow Apart: The Long Sorrow of the Ents and Marriage in The Lord of the Rings.
— Nicole duPlessis

“Enough about Whores”: Sexual Characterization in A Song of Ice and Fire.
— Joseph Young

“It Had Been His Virtue, and Therefore Also the Cause of His Fall”: Seduction as a Mythopoeic Accounting for Evil in Tolkien’s Work.
— Maria Alberto

The Name of the Ring: or, There and Back Again.
— Janet Brennan Croft

Tolkien’s Allusive Backstory: Immortality and Belief in the Fantasy Frame.
— Wayne A. Chandler and Carrol L. Fry

Utopia in Deep Heaven: Thomas More and C.S. Lewis’s Cosmic Trilogy
.— Benjamin C. Parker

From the Ineluctable Wave to the Realization of Imagined Wonder: Tolkien’s Transformation of Psychic Pain into Art.
— John Rosegrant

A Common Language of Desire: The Magicians, Narnia, and Contemporary Fantasy.
— Kelly Kramer

Reviews

• Fisher, Jason: A Secret Vice: Tolkien on Invented Languages. J.R.R. Tolkien. Ed. Dimitra Fimi and Andrew Higgins.
• Fitzsimmons, Philip: The ‘Great War’ of Owen Barfield and C.S. Lewis: Philosophical Writings 1927-1930. Edited by Norbert Feinendegen and Arend Smilde Joy and Poetic Imagination: Understanding C.S. Lewis’s “Great War” with Owen Barfield and its Significance for Lewis’s Conversion and Writings. Stephen Thorson.
• Larsen, Kristine: The Hero’s Quest and the Cycles of Nature: An Ecological Interpretation of World Mythology. Rachel S. McCoppin.
• Brown, Nancy Marie: Elf Queens and Holy Friars: Fairy Beliefs and the Medieval Church. Richard Firth Green.
• Cochran, James M.: Outlaw Heroes as Liminal Figures of Film and Television. Rebecca A. Umland.
• Martin, Tiffany Brooke: C.S. Lewis at Poets’ Corner. Edited by Michael Ward and Peter S. Williams.
• Foster, Mike: A Well of Wonder: Essays on C.S. Lewis, J.R.R. Tolkien, and the Inklings. Clyde S. Kilby.
• Croft, Janet Brennan: Fastitocalon: Studies in Fantasticism Ancient to Modern. Vol. 6, nos. 1 and 2, 2016. Hither Shore: Interdisciplinary Journal on Modern Fantasy Literature. Vol. 12, 2015.