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

One last cfp for the day:

CFP: Mythmoot VII: Defying and Defining the Darkness, June 25–28, 2020, Leesburg, VA, USA
https://www.fantastic-arts.org/2020/cfp-mythmoot-vii-defying-and-defining-the-darkness-june-25-28-2020-leesburg-va-usa/
February 1, 2020

Mythmoot VII: Defying and Defining the Darkness

“Look at how a single candle can both defy and define the darkness.”
— attributed to Anne Frank

When: June 25–28, 2020
Where: The National Conference Center
Leesburg, VA
USA

What is Mythmoot VII?

Mythmoot VII, with the theme of “Defying and Defining Darkness,” combines an academic conference, creative writing meet-up, and fan convention for a unique experience. Here at Mythmoot, we have room for serious scholarship in fields such as science fiction, high fantasy, horror, gothic, mythology, children’s literature, folklore.. .the list goes on. We also appreciate less academic, but no less enthusiastic, pursuits of all the above—such as demonstrations of how to knit the best fake candle ever, presentations theorizing the exact recipe for Peruvian Instant Darkness Powder, or papers dissecting the cultural background of Baron Harkonnen!

Call for Proposals:

Where there is light there is darkness—the two play off of each other. This concept appears throughout literature all over the world in yin and yang, good and evil, two sides of the same coin, and even in the literal sun rising and setting. How does one define the darkness? Can darkness only be defied once it is known? Should darkness even be defined or defied? We want to hear how you believe defining and defying the darkness interacts with the stories you love and how you would approach the topic.

We are accepting proposals for Papers, Panels, Workshops, and Creative Presentations about defying or defining the darkness (or tangential topics) in the following areas of study:

● Imaginative Literature (ex: Harry Potter, Dune, The Call of Cthulhu, Star Wars, Lord of the Rings, The Dresden Files, etc.)
● Tolkien and Inklings Studies
● Classic Literature from ancient times to the present
● Philology

If you are unsure whether your topic fits, send your proposal or a description of your idea to the listed submissions email, and we will let you know.

Individual presentations, whether creative or critical, will have 30 minutes—20 minutes for presentation and 10 for Q&A. (N.B. The “creative” category is not limited to original works but could include presenting or performing art, music, drama, or dance. If you have any questions about what you can present, please contact the submissions email.)

Panels must contain at least 3 papers and/or presenters and will be allocated 90 minutes total for presentations and Q&A.

Workshops must identify their own length (either 30 min, 60 min, or 90 min) and include justification for the requested time. Workshops may be run individually, but it is recommended that a workshop have at least two leaders. (Workshop examples: the knitting of Smaug hats, an interactive discussion on dragon species, etc.)

Papers will be presented in 90-minute sessions of 1 – 3 presenters. Each presenter will have 30 minutes (20 minutes for presentation and 10 minutes for questions) to present their paper.

Proposal Submittal:
Your submission to events@signumu.org must contain the following in the email: the type of submission, a title, a 300-word abstract or description, the name(s) of the presenter(s), and a two-sentence biography for each presenter. Title your email “Mythmoot VII Proposal”. All submissions must be received by 11:59 pm EST on March 13th, 2020.

No presentations will be given in absentia, and your submission to Mythmoot VII is considered an agreement to attend and present should your proposal be accepted. Each room will have a projector for presenter use.

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 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 The Pedagogy of Harry Potter (7/10/2018)

Another interesting call; sorry for posting it so close to the deadline.

The Pedagogy of Harry Potter
https://call-for-papers.sas.upenn.edu/cfp/2018/05/15/the-pedagogy-of-harry-potter

deadline for submissions: July 10, 2018

full name / name of organization: Marcie Panutsos Rovan and Melissa Wehler

contact email: 2marcie@gmail.com



J.K. Rowling’s Harry Potter is one of the most successful series of all time, and since its publication, has inspired scholars to analyze its engagement with gender, its relationship to mythology and fairy tales, and its literary and historical influences. Scholars have examined the impact that the books have had on popular culture, children’s literacy, and children’s literature. Collections have considered the series as a way of exploring politics, philosophy, religion, ethics, and psychology, among other fields. Yet, lost in all this scholarship has been a serious engagement with the way the series portrays education.

Before she was a renowned children’s author, J.K. Rowling was an educator. She taught English as a foreign language in Portugal, then trained as an educator in Edinburgh. She taught French part-time in Edinburgh while writing the Harry Potter series. Her educational background left an indelible mark on her books. Hogwarts, the central location of the series, is first and foremost, a boarding school. Most of the characters within the text are either students or professors. While scholars have looked at the series’ relationship to other boarding school stories or considered how the series can be used in the classroom, there has been no focused analysis of the educational theories and practices depicted within the walls of Hogwarts.

In assembling a collection of essays, we would like to see a variety of topics related to the various pedagogical approaches (both successful and unsuccessful) and educational concerns depicted in the Harry Potter series. While authors are invited to draw on the film adaptations, we ask that essays focus on the book series.

Possible subjects might include:

• Mentorship
• Discipline and punishment
• Responses to bullying
• Teaching without technology
• Active learning strategies
• Process-based learning
• Standardized testing & the O.W.L/N.E.W.T. exams
• Teaching styles displayed by various characters
• Student support
• Classroom management
• Ethics and inclusivity
• Assessment of student learning
• Issues related to first-generation/ muggle-born students

Brief author biographies and abstracts (of 300-500 words in length) should be submitted via email to: 2marcie@gmail.com and melissawehler@gmail.com by July 10, 2018. Essays must be in American English and spellings, fully cited in accordance with the current MLA style manual. The length of each contribution should be roughly 6,000 to 6,500 words. The deadline for final chapter submission is November 30, 2018. Peer review will be conducted after the collection is submitted, currently scheduled for March 2019. The collection is under contract with McFarland.

Editor Biographies

Marcie Rovan, Ph.D., serves as an Assistant Professor of English and Director of First-Year Writing at Central Penn College, Summerdale, PA. She has a Ph.D. in literature from Duquesne University with a specialization in Children’s Literature. Her publications include a journal article, “The ‘Broken Mirror’: Casualties of Nation-Building in Train to Pakistan,” in Impressions and a book chapter, "What to do with Supergirl?: Fairy Tales Tropes, Female Power, and Conflicted Feminist Discourse" in a forthcoming collection of essays on Supergirl to be published by McFarland.

Melissa Wehler, Ph.D. serves as the Dean of Humanities and Sciences, Central Penn College, Summerdale, PA. Her publications include book chapters in various edited collections, including “‘We are allies, my dear’: Defining British and American National Identity in Downton Abbey” in Exploring Downton Abbey (2018), “The Haunted Hero: The Performance of Trauma in Jessica Jones” in Jessica Jones, Scared Hero: Essays on Gender Trauma and Addiction in the Netflix Series (2018), “‘Be wise. Be brave. Be tricky’: Neil Gaiman’s Extraordinarily Ordinary Coraline,” in A Quest of Her Own (2014), among others. She has several forthcoming publications including, co-editing a collection of essays on the television show Supergirl where her article “The Super “It” Girl: A New Brand for a Classic Icon” will also appear.

CFP 1997 – The Year that Made the Future: A Symposium (expired; Edhe Hill Univeristy, UK 10/26-28-2018)

This seems of potential interest; sorry for the late posting:

1997 – The Year that made the Future: A symposium
https://call-for-papers.sas.upenn.edu/cfp/2018/04/18/1997-%E2%80%93-the-year-that-made-the-future-a-symposium

deadline for submissions: June 8, 2018

full name / name of organization: Matthew Pateman Edge Hill University

contact email: matthew.pateman@edgehill.ac.uk



October 26 - 28, Edhe Hill Univeristy, UK


1997 was a hugely significant year in terms of shaping the modern world. There are iconic popular culture game-changers such as Harry Potter and Buffy the Vampire Slayer; Teletubbies and Titanic. Bollywood continued to make global inroads with films such as Dil To Pagal Hai,and video games became massive with the release of Grand Theft Auto. Fashion saw the murder of Vesrace, the rise of Alexander McQueen and Stella McCartney. The British Empire was being re-defined through appropriation in the Cool Britannia music scene (with McQueen’s complex union flag frock coat and Geri Helliwell’s nationalistic mini-dress), while the UK transferred Hong Kong back to mainland china. Tony Blair spoke of Princess Diana’s death and ushered in the centrist consensus, while a ceasefire in Northern Ireland suggested the chance of peace. The Deep Blue computer beat Grand Master Gary Kasparov at chess, and the domain names Google, Facebook and Netflix were registered; DVD players went on sale in the US for the first time. Stephen Lawrence was murdered in London and there was an overwhelming vote in the UK to ban handguns after the Dunblane massacre to mention nothing of global shifts in politics and trade, EU expansion, climate change agreements and so much else.


This symposium will seek to address, celebrate, critique and understand 1997; to situate it at the birth of the 21st century in terms of the economic, political, cultural and technological events that it witnessed and produced. Wildly multi- and inter-disciplinary in nature, we welcome papers, panels, posters and presentations from any and all subject area as long as the key theme of the importance of 1997 in future developments related to the paper’s subject is addressed. Given the hoped for wide mix of subjects, we ask that you avoid overly-technical papers and assume an informed but non-specialist audience. Papers should be 20 minutes in length, and panel proposals should aim to last for one hour.


It is hoped that there will be screenings / soundings of some of the most memorable visual and audio culture from the year, as well as fashion and other memorabilia. Please feel free to bring your own.


Proposals should be sent to Professor Matthew Pateman by 8th June 2018. I hope to confirm acceptance or otherwise by July 12 with a final programme to be circulated by early September.

Proposals should be sent to matthew.pateman@edgehill.ac.uk.

CFP Magic and Witchcraft on Stage and Screen (6/27/2018; PAMLA 11/9-11/2018)

I'm doble posting this across our associated blogs. Sounds fun; too bad it is the same week as MAPACA.



Extended deadline: Magic and Witchcraft on Stage and Screen
https://call-for-papers.sas.upenn.edu/cfp/2018/06/01/extended-deadline-magic-and-witchcraft-on-stage-and-screen

deadline for submissions: June 27, 2018

full name / name of organization: Pacific Ancient and Modern Language Association (PAMLA)

contact email: lgreene@ewu.edu



Deadline extended to June 27, 2018



Proposals are invited for a Special Session of PAMLA (Pacific Ancient and Modern Language Association) 2018, which will meet November 9-11, 2018, in Bellingham, Washington. The conference theme is “Acting, Roles, Stages,” and we will be contributing papers on ways in which magic and witchcraft have been represented dramatically over the centuries.



In the 400 years between Macbeth and Harry Potter, the image of the witch has become more appealing and less frightening, more popular culture and less cultural nightmare. Magic has lost its association with conjuring demons and is portrayed as an innate or acquired skill, more mysterious than playing the piano but maybe not essentially different. Witches are not wicked, and magic is not a tool of the devil. This is a huge cultural shift.



This panel invites speakers in the fields of history, anthropology, drama, film, literature, and religious studies, as well as practitioners of magic and witchcraft, to contribute to our understanding of these phenomena and their changing roles in contemporary culture. Topics from film, drama, and literature might include but are not limited to the following:

• Macbeth
• Bell, Book, and Candle
• Bewitched
• Harry Potter
• The Craft
• Practical Magic

Panel participants must join PAMLA BY July 1, 2018, and must register and pay for the conference by October 1, 2018. Please submit proposals through the PAMLA website at www.pamla.org.

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.

Millennial Mythmaking: Essays on the Power of Science Fiction and Fantasy Literature, Films and Games

Been catching up on my McFarland collections. Perlich and Whitt offer a varied yet deeply informative set of essays.

Millennial Mythmaking: Essays on the Power of Science Fiction and Fantasy Literature, Films and Games
http://www.mcfarlandbooks.com/book-2.php?id=978-0-7864-4562-2
Edited by John Perlich and David Whitt

Print ISBN: 978-0-7864-4562-2
Ebook ISBN: 978-0-7864-5592-8
notes, bibliographies, index
212pp. softcover (6 x 9) 2010

Price: $39.95
Available for immediate shipment

About the Book
Contemporary myths, particularly science fiction and fantasy texts, can provide commentary on who we are as a culture, what we have created, and where we are going. These nine essays from a variety of disciplines expand upon the writings of Joseph Campbell and the hero’s journey. Modern examples of myths from various sources such as Planet of the Apes, Wicked, Pan’s Labyrinth, and Spirited Away; the Harry Potter series; and Second Life are analyzed as creative mythology and a representation of contemporary culture and emerging technology.

Table of Contents

Acknowledgments vii
Preface: "There and Back Again…"      1

Contrasting Colors
1. Sorting Heroic Choices: Green and Red in the Harry Potter Septology
(KIRSTIN CRONN-MILLS and JESSICA SAMENS)      5
2. The Complexity of Evil in Modern Mythology: The Evolution of the Wicked Witch of the West
(JASON EDWARDS and BRIAN KLOSA)      32
3. Polysemous Myth: Incongruity in Planet of the Apes
(RICHARD BESEL and RENEE SMITH BESEL)      51

New Champions
4. The Hero with the Thousand-and-First Face: Miyazaki’s Girl Quester in Spirited Away and Campbell’s Monomyth
(DEE GEORTZ)      67
5. The Odyssey of Madame Souza: A Heroine’s Quest in The Triplets of Belleville
(DAVID WHITT)      83
6. Rethinking the Monomyth: Pan’s Labyrinth and the Face of a New Hero(ine)
(JOHN PERLICH)      100

No Boundaries
7. Actors and Their Mythic Heroes: From the Doctor to Captain Kirk
(DJOYMI BAKER)      129
8. Running Free in Angelina Jolie’s Virtual Body: The Myth of the New Frontier and Gender Liberaton in Second Life
(ELLEN GORSEVSKI)      146
9. So Where Do I Go from Here? Ghost in the Shell and Imagining Cyborg Mythology for the New Millennium
(JAY SCOTT CHIPMAN)      167

Epilogue: "Always in Motion Is the Future…"      193
About the Contributors      197
Index      199


About the Editors
John Perlich is a professor of communication studies at Hastings College in Hastings, Nebraska.
David Whitt is an associate professor of communication at Nebraska Wesleyan University in Lincoln, Nebraska.

CFP Alchemy in Harry Potter collection (3/1/15)

Alchemy in Harry Potter
Call for Papers Date: 2015-03-01
Date Submitted: 2014-12-16
Announcement ID: 218844
https://www.h-net.org/announce/show.cgi?ID=218844

Call for papers for a multidisciplinary/interdisciplinary collection of essays on alchemy in the Harry Potter novels.

In a 1998 interview with The Herald, J.K. Rowling said, "I've never wanted to be a witch, but an alchemist, now that's a different matter. To invent this wizard world, I've learned a ridiculous amount about alchemy. . . . I [had] to know in detail what magic can and cannot do in order to set the parameters and establish the stories' internal logic."


We are seeking papers for a collection of new essays on alchemy, broadly conceived, in the Harry Potter series. We welcome essays on alchemy itself and the alchemical symbolism in the novels.

And we welcome essays on the other transformations the series suggests. For one example, Rowling challenges readers to rethink how we use words like power, so by the end of the series Voldemort's brute strength looks more like a weakness and Luna's encouragement, "we're still here, we're still fighting," sounds like strength. For another, there are gendered transformations and explorations of race and class and a reevaluation of what makes one "successful." Different models of education, too, seem relevant to the "literary alchemy" broad model.

We prefer a focus mainly on the novels themselves, but from there, an article could certainly look into the films and fan phenomena.

We will accept full papers or proposals, which should be in Times New Roman, 12 pt. type, double spaced. Full papers should be no more than 25 pages, including references. Any citation style is fine at this point, although accepted chapters will need to be converted to Chicago style. Please send proposals (or full papers) to alchemy@monmouthcollege.edu by March 1, 2015. Full papers will be due by June 1, 2015.

We are in active conversation with Palgrave McMillan, which has expressed interest in the proposal and looks forward to sending it out for blind peer review. We plan to deliver the manuscript to Palgrave on July 15, 2015.


Dr. Anne Mamary (Philosophy & Religious Studies) & Dr. Christine D. Myers (History)
Monmouth College
700 E. Broadway
Monmouth, IL 61462

Email: alchemy@monmouthcollege.edu

CFP Harry Potter on the Page and on the Screen: Adaptation/Reception/Transformation (8/15/14)

One more for the week:

CFP: Harry Potter on the Page and on the Screen: Adaptation/Reception/Transformation
Source: http://fanstudies.wordpress.com/2014/07/13/cfp-harry-potter-on-the-page-and-on-the-screen-adaptationreceptiontransformation/

Harry Potter on the Page and on the Screen: Adaptation/Reception/Transformation

The eight film versions of the seven Harry Potter novels represent an unprecedented cultural event in the history of cinematic adaptation. The movie version of the first Harry Potter book, Harry Potter and the Philosopher’s/Sorcerer’s Stone, premiered in 2001, in between publication of the fourth and fifth books of this global literary phenomenon. As a result, the production and reception of both novel and movie series became intertwined with one another, creating multiple combination of fans who accessed the series first through the books, first through the movies, and in various other combinations. The decision to cast three young age appropriate actors who would mature along with their fictional counterparts further represents a cross-pollination of the interpretive process, as readers began experiencing the newly emerging novels in terms of the visual imagination of their screen experiences.

Harry Potter on the Page and on the Screen: Adaptation/Reception/Transformation is an essay collection that proposes to explore the cultural, political, aesthetic, and pedagogical implications of the adaptation of this generation-defining young adult narrative in order to expand our scholarly understanding of this far-reaching international literary and cinematic event, consider what we can learn about the process of cinematic adaptation of literary sources, and facilitate the classroom exploration of the Harry Potter series.

Some questions that might be considered:

• How does the overlapping adaptation history of the Harry Potter series affect theoretical questions of fidelity, interpretation, and transformation in film adaptation studies?
• In what ways do the novel and movie series represent the same or different narrative universes?
• How does the dual experience of the novel and movies affect the reception process of Harry Potter fans?
• How do the different media versions of the Harry Potter series impact representations of gender, race, ethnicity, and sexuality?
• How was the dual development of the novel and film series affected by the concurrent development of Web 2.0 and interactive fan culture?
• How has the larger political and social context, particularly 9/11 and the wars of the 21st century, shaped the adaption and reception experience of Harry Potter?
• How have fan communities responded to issues of fidelity and interpretation within the film series? How have fan communities influenced the production process of the movie adaptations?
• How do specific examples of individual novel/movie adaptations represent different issues and developments related to the development of the dual media Harry Potter series?

Interested contributors may email inquiries or one page abstracts by 15 August 2014 to:

John Alberti
Department of English
Northern Kentucky University
Highland Heights KY 41099
alberti@nku.edu

Andy Miller
Department of English
Northern Kentucky University
Highland Heights KY 41099
millera@nku.edu

CFP From Here to Hogwarts (9/1/14)

[CFP] Harry Potter Studies Edited Volume
Call for Papers Date: 2014-09-01
Date Submitted: 2014-06-11
Announcement ID: 214407
Call for Chapter Proposals

From Here to Hogwarts is a proposed interdisciplinary, multi-contributer volume born of the burgeoning field of Harry Potter Studies and the community of collaborators that is developing within the Southwest Popular/American Culture Association.

This proposed volume will cover a range of topics within the works of J.K. Rowling. The Harry Potter series is such a rich text for analysis, particularly of social issues that can be extrapolated to real-world, non-fictional settings. The scholarship being produced surrounding the Harry Potter series is phenomenal.

As such, this call for chapters invites interested scholars to submit papers and/or proposals for publication consideration in this edited volume.

Contributions should use the works of JK Rowling (the Harry Potter series, or companion works such as The Tales of Beedle the Bard, Fantastic Creatures and Where to Find Them, or Quidditch Through the Ages) to address a social or political issue, such as race, class, gender, sexual orientation, societal structure, age, muggle vs. wizard relations, technology, religion, and so forth. All themes will be considered as related to the overall direction of the volume.

Proposals from any academic discipline will be considered. Emerging and early career scholars are especially encouraged to submit. Final papers should be no longer than 30 pages, including references, and should be scholarly in nature yet accessible in language and tone.

For consideration, please submit an abstract/proposal of no more than 500 words to Dr. Christopher Bell, University of Colorado at Colorado Springs, at cbell3@uccs.edu. Abstracts/proposals should be sent as Word Document attachments, and should include the author(s)’s name, affiliation, title and email contact information. Abstracts/proposals should be submitted no later than September 1, 2014. Final papers will be due January 1, 2015.

Please feel free to forward this call to any and all relevant listservs or discussion groups.

Christopher Bell, Ph.D.
University of Colorado Colorado Springs
Email: cbell3@uccs.edu

CFP Harry Potter Generation in Retrospect (1/15/15)

Edited Collection -- Into the Pensieve: The Harry Potter Generation in Retrospect. [DEADLINE: Jan 15, 2015]
full name / name of organization:
Balaka Basu, Emily Lauer
contact email:
hpgeneration.book@gmail.com

There now exists a generation who have grown up in a culture thoroughly permeated by Harry Potter, from the books to the movies and beyond. Now that the series has come to a close, it is time to take stock: how exactly has this generation of new adults been shaped and constructed by the cultural zeitgeist that is the Harry Potter universe? What future is there for Harry Potter studies? Are we still in the Harry Potter Age, or have we entered a Post-Potter age?

We seek essays of 6,000 - 7,000 words for this collection that address the idea of a Harry Potter Generation broadly, with perspectives including fan studies, pedagogy, and traditional theoretical lenses.

Possible themes might include, but are not limited to:

- Fan studies, including fandom communities and productions, and those authors writing now whose work was inspired by the Harry Potter phenomenon.
- The narrative and genre concerns of the series and how they may affect a generation of readers.
- The role(s) of history and the present in the series itself.
- Pedagogical concerns - as professors, how do we engage with an assumption of cultural knowledge of Harry Potter in the classroom?
- Global approaches, especially post-colonial - how has the Harry Potter phenomenon shaped experience outside of Great Britain and North America?
- Merchandising and versioning - how have the movies or the shopping opportunities shaped the idea of what role Harry Potter can play in consumers’ lives?
- Experiences of children who did not read the books, or who were discouraged from doing so.

Email queries are very welcome at any time; send completed papers as attachments in Word format to Balaka Basu and Emily Lauer at hpgeneration.book@gmail.com by January 15, 2015.


By web submission at 05/13/2014 - 23:58

Fan CULTure: Essays on Participatory Fandom in the 21st Century

Fan CULTure: Essays on Participatory Fandom in the 21st Century 

Edited by Kristin M. Barton and Jonathan Malcolm Lampley
Foreword by Stephen J. Sansweet
Published by McFarland

Print ISBN: 978-0-7864-7418-9
Ebook ISBN: 978-1-4766-0459-6
bibliographies, index
212pp. softcover (6 x 9) 2014
Price $40.00

About the Book
Fan CULTure explores how present-day fans interact with the films, television shows, books, and pop culture artifacts they love. From creating original works of fanfiction to influencing the content of major primetime series through social media, fans are no longer passive consumers. They have evolved into active participants in creating and shaping these works. The all-new essays in this collection provide in-depth analyses of how fans interact with such popular franchises as Harry Potter, Lost, Supernatural, Lord of the Rings and Joss Whedon’s Serenity, and examines as well topics not based on media-like fans of the LEGO building blocks, Disneyland, and NFL quarterback Tim Tebow.

About the Editors
Kristin M. Barton is an associate professor and chair of the Department of Communication at Dalton State College in Dalton, Georgia. He lives in Woodstock, Georgia. Jonathan Malcolm Lampley, a prolific contributor to many popular-culture periodicals and publications, is a professor of English and film at Dalton State College in Georgia.

Table of Contents

Foreword (http://www.mcfarlandbooks.com/excerpts/978-0-7864-7418-9.Foreword.pdf)
Stephen J. Sansweet 1
Introduction (http://www.mcfarlandbooks.com/excerpts/978-0-7864-7418-9.Introduction.pdf)
Kristin M. Barton 5

Section 1: Fan Productions
Can’t Stop the Sequel: How the Serenity-Inspired Browncoats: Redemption Is Changing the Future of Fan Films (Kristin M. Barton) 9
Dark Shadows Fandom, Then and Now (1966-2013) (Jeff Thompson) 23
Spellbound: An Analysis of Adult-Oriented Harry Potter Fanfiction (Don Tresca) 36
Recut Film Trailers, Nostalgia and the Teen Film (Kathleen Williams) 47

Section 2: Social Media
Bringing Piety Back: Tim Tebow, Sports and American Culture (Susan Orenstein) 61
Fan-Made Time: The Lord of the Rings and The Hobbit (Owain Gwynne) 76
The Fandom Is Out There: Social Media and The X-Files Online (Bethan Jones) 92
Alternate Reality Games, Narrative Disbursement and Canon: The Lost Experience (Kent Aardse) 106

Section 3: Fan-Influenced Content
Block Party: A Look at Adult Fans of LEGO (Jennifer C. Garlen) 119
A New Kind of Pandering: Supernatural and the World of Fanfiction (Anissa M. Graham) 131 (http://www.mcfarlandbooks.com/excerpts/978-0-7864-7418-9.Pandering.pdf)
Desiring the Tangible: Disneyland, Fandom and Spatial Immersion (Meyrav Koren-Kuik) 146
Chuck Versus the Advertiser: How Fan Activism and Footlong Subway Sandwiches Saved a Television Series (Kristin M. Barton) 159
"Guys, where are we?" Podcasts, Online Video and Lost’s Participatory Culture (Michael Graves) 173

Afterword: The Past and Future of Fandom Studies (Jonathan Malcolm Lampley) 191

About the Contributors 197
Index 199

Film and History 2012 Conference

The 2012 Film and History Conference meets later this month from 26-30 September 2012 at the Hyatt Regency Downtown in Milwaukee, Wisconsin. There are a number of papers and emtire sessions devoted to the fantastic. The complete program can be accessed at http://www.filmandhistory.org/conference/conference2012.php.

Call for Papers of Interest

From H-Announce. Hyperlinks are to the posted CFP.

Ghost Stories: Hauntings and Echoes in Literature and Culture (McGill English Graduate Conference CFP, Deadline 15 November 2011)
Quebec, Canada
Call for Papers Date 2011-11-15 (in 13 days)



The co-editors of a multi-volume set on EVIL IN AMERICAN POP CULTURE would like to invite contributors for chapters on specific aspects of evil in American pop culture.
Publication Date 2011-10-10 (today!)



CFP Paranormal Literature, Television, and Film Special Topic Panel(s) in Vampire in Literature, Culture and Film Area of The National Popular Culture and American Culture Association Annual Conference 2012 (April 11-14, 2012)
Massachusetts, United States
Call for Papers Date 2011-12-15



PCA/ACA 2012 National Conference, The Vampire in Literature and Film: Buffy & Angel
Massachusetts, United States
Conference Date 2012-04-14



CFP: True Blood SW/TX PCA/ACA (12/1/11; 2/8-11/12)
New Mexico, United States
Call for Papers Date 2011-12-01 (in 29 days)



CFP: Paranormal Mysteries (theme issue of _Clues: A Journal of Detection_)
Call for Papers Date 2011-12-29



A Brand of Fictional Magic: Imaginative Empathy in Harry Potter
United Kingdom
Call for Papers Date 2011-11-15 (in 13 days)



CFP: Catastrophic Translation, Translating Catastrophes @ ACLA 2012
Rhode Island, United States
Call for Papers Date 2011-11-15 (in 13 days)



Art in Translation: International Conference on Language and the Arts
Iceland
Call for Papers Date 2011-11-30 (in 28 days)



POW! IN THE EYE OF THE MOON! Conference on French Science Fiction
Saskatchewan, Canada
Call for Papers Date 2012-01-01



Mythology in Contemporary Culture, Popular Culture Association Annual Conference, Boston, April 11 - 14, 2012
Massachusetts, United States
Call for Papers Date 2011-12-15



CFP: Fairy Tales, Popular Culture Association, Boston, April 11-14
Massachusetts, United States
Call for Papers Date 2011-12-15



Weird Council: An International Conference on the Writing of China Miéville
United Kingdom
Conference Date 2012-09-15



Call for Papers: SW/TX PCA/ACA Children’s/Young Adult Literature and Culture Area
New Mexico, United States
Call for Papers Date 2011-12-01 (in 29 days)



Call for papers: Capturing Witches: Histories, Stories, Images
United Kingdom
Call for Papers Date 2011-12-01 (in 29 days)


James Bond and Popular Culture
New Mexico, United States
Conference Date 2011-12-01 (in 29 days)


Call for Submissions for Edited Collection: Post-9/11 British and American Literature: Ten Years Later
Publication Date 2011-12-01 (in 29 days)


CFP: Fan Production and the Fantastic (10/31/11; ICFA, 3/21/12 – 3/25/12)
Florida, United States
Call for Papers Date 2011-10-31 (today!)

CFP Potterwatch 2011 Conference (8/15/11)

http://call-for-papers.sas.upenn.edu/node/42065

[UPDATE] Potterwatch 2011: Accepting proposals until August 15
full name / name of organization:
Potterwatch and
contact email:
unccpotterconference@gmail.com
Harry Potter and Crossover Audiences
the 2011 PotterWatch Conference
at the University of North Carolina at Charlotte
October 1, 2011
Charlotte, NC

The Harry Potter series has been translated into more than 60 languages, inspired a multi-million dollar theme park, and prompted the creation of an “International Quidditch Association” comprised of hundreds of teams. What began as a British children’s book became an international best-selling series. Much of the success of the novels can be attributed to crossover appeal—how Harry is loved by audiences of a variety of ages, genders, and religions. How do the books speak to so many different, sometimes opposing, audiences? Why do we love Harry so much?

Together, PotterWatch, the official Harry Potter club of UNC Charlotte, and the Children's Graduate Literature Organization of UNC Charlotte will be hosting an academic conference focusing on the theme of audiences within the Harry Potter series and fandom. We invite submissions of paper and panel proposals that address the theme of audience and crossover appeal in relation to the Harry Potter series, looking at reader response from a variety of academic perspectives.

Suggested topics include:
• Harry Potter from an international perspective
• Religious responses to the series
• Generational appeal (the “crossover” novel)
• group response to Harry Potter (fan clubs, Quidditch, book/movie premieres, etc.)
• is Harry Potter a “boy’s book?”

To be considered for presentation, please submit a 500-word abstract for individual papers or panel proposals to unccpotterconference@gmail.com by August 15, 2011. Please include the paper title, your name (and names of all panel presenters if applicable), your institution, and your affiliation (faculty, student, other). Individual presentations should be 10-15 minutes in length, while panel presentations should last for 45 minutes. Graduate and undergraduate students are encouraged to submit proposals.

CFP It All Ended: Harry Potter and Popular Culture Conference (UK) (12/2/11)

http://call-for-papers.sas.upenn.edu/node/42038

It All Ended: Harry Potter and Popular Culture
full name / name of organization:
De Montfort University, Leicester, UK
contact email:
jrussell@dmu.ac.uk
It All Ended.
Harry Potter and Popular Culture.

A one-day conference hosted by De Montfort University, Leicester, UK.

Friday 29th February 2012.

J.K. Rowling’s Harry Potter novels and Warner Bros’ film adaptations constitute one of the most successful media franchises of the modern age. Now that both books and films have reached a spectacular conclusion, this conference aims to assess Harry Potter’s place in popular culture.

We welcome papers which look at any aspect of the Potter phenomenon, from creative, artistic or industrial evaluations, through to case studies of related products and fan communities.

Proposals (of no more than 300 words) should be sent to:

James Russell
jrussell@dmu.ac.uk
by Friday 2 December 2011.

CFP A Brand of Fictional Magic: Imaginative Empathy in Harry Potter (11/15/11)

http://www.h-net.org/announce/show.cgi?ID=186435

Call for Papers:
A Brand of Fictional Magic: Imaginative Empathy in Harry Potter

A two day conference hosted by the School of English, University of St Andrews
17-18 May 2012, Kennedy Hall, St Andrews, Scotland

The relentless success of J. K. Rowling’s Harry Potter series (1997-2007) evokes words like ‘phenomenon’ and ‘catastrophe’. With the conclusion of the film franchise and the launch of Pottermore.com, the series is receiving increased academic consideration in conferences, articles, and monographs. However, relatively little work has been done directly engaging with the series as a literary text. This conference attempts to begin redressing that lack.

Rowling’s combination of fantasy and school-story genres, her use of folkloric archetypes and mythopoeic symbolism, and her social and religious messages render the Harry Potterbooks a point of interest—and controversy—to scholars from a wide range of disciplines. This conference seeks to critically explore Rowling’s concept of imaginative empathy, the ability to ‘learn and understand, without having experienced’. Of particular interest are ways in which the power of empathy, in addition to its being of socio-political necessity, might be read as Rowling’s ‘brand of fictional magic’.

We invite papers and panels that engage with the text to discuss the centrality of empathy to the economies of the creative artist. We particularly encourage submissions from scholars working in children's and YA literature; also welcome are papers from scholars interested in relating Harry Potter to their own areas of research.

Relevant topics might include:

• The poetics of empathy
• Symbolic or archetypal depictions of empathy
• Readings of the series as children’s or YA literature
• Mythopoesis and the re-appropriation of folklore
• Medievalism and depictions of the Middle Ages in the Wizarding World
• Space, landscape, or architecture
• Representations and uses of socialization or maturation
• Depictions of education and pedagogy, empathetic or bounded
• Rowling’s concepts of “mental agoraphobia” and “willful unimagination”
• Literary influences on the series
• Textual or semiotic analysis of the narrative
• Genre criticism, viz., Gothic, Fantasy, Fairy Tale, School Story, Dystopia, et al.
• Narrative voice and authority
• Political empathy, class action, or solidarity

Keynote speakers will be John Granger and Jessica Tiffin.

Papers will be 20 minutes, and may discuss any of the seven books individually or the series as a whole. Please submit a 300-word (max.) abstract in .doc, .docx., or .pdf format with a short CV to John Patrick Pazdziora (jpp6@st-andrews.ac.uk) by 15 November 2011.

John Patrick Pazdziora
School of English
Castle House
University of St Andrews
KY16 9AL
Scotland
Email: jpp6@st-andrews.ac.uk