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.

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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

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 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 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.