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

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/.