Showing posts with label Chronicles of Narnia. Show all posts
Showing posts with label Chronicles of Narnia. Show all posts

Sunday, November 6, 2022

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

Sunday, June 7, 2015

Vader, Voldemort and Other Villains: Essays on Evil in Popular Media

Here's a second McFarland collection for the night. Heit offers readers a nice mix of the mundane and the fantastic.

Vader, Voldemort and Other Villains: Essays on Evil in Popular Media
http://www.mcfarlandbooks.com/book-2.php?id=978-0-7864-5845-5
Edited by Jamey Heit

Print ISBN: 978-0-7864-5845-5
Ebook ISBN: 978-0-7864-8510-9
notes, bibliographies, index
233pp. softcover (6 x 9) 2011

Price: $35.00
Available for immediate shipment

About the Book
What is evil? How do we understand it in our culture? The thirteen essays in this critical volume explore the different ways in which evil is portrayed in popular culture, particularly film and novels. Iconic figures of evil are considered, as is the repeated use of classic themes within our intellectual tradition. Topics covered include serial killers in film, the Twilight series, the Harry Potter series, Star Wars, and more. Collectively, these essays suggest how vital the notion of evil is to our culture, which in turn suggest a need to reflect on what it means to value what is good.

Table of Contents

Acknowledgments      vii
Preface      1
Introduction      3

1. The Aesthetic of Evil      13
DANIEL A. FORBES
2. The Devil Made Me Do It! The Devil in 1960s-1970s Horror Film      28
ANTOINETTE F. WINSTEAD
3. Frankenstein’s Legacy: The Mad Scientist Remade      46
KRISTINE LARSEN
4. Focus on the Family: Good and Evil Vampires in the Twilight Saga      64
A.J. GRANT
5. The Dichotomy of the Great Mother Archetype in Disney Heroines and Villainesses      80
SARAH LYNNE BOWMAN
6. Exploring the Relay Gaze in Hollywood Cinema: Serial Killers and the Women Who Hunt Them      97
SARAH LAFFERTY
7. Wanting the White Witch      113
BRYAN DOVE
8. Paradise Inverted: Philip Pullman’s Use of High Fantasy and Epic Poetry to Portray Evil in His Dark Materials      125
E. QUINN FOX
9. Sim Evil: Avatars and the Ethical Game Mechanic      145
KELLY KELLEWAY
10. Making Modern Evil: Terrorism, Torture, and the Creation of Evil in 24      162
MICHAEL J. LEWIS
11. No Laughing Matter: The Joker as a Nietzschean Critique of Morality      175
JAMEY HEIT
12. I Am Your Father: The Villain and the Future Self      189
NATHANIEL VAN YPEREN
13. Hearts of Darkness: Voldemort and Iago, with a Little Help from Their Friends      202
KEN ROTHMAN

Epilogue      218
About the Contributors      221
Index      223

About the Editor
Jamey Heit is the co-founder and CEO of Essay Assay, Inc., an automated assessment company. An active researcher and writer in cultural studies, he teaches humanities courses online at Walden University.