Out Now - Mythlore for Spring - Summer 2024

Just released this week: Mythlore's special issue on "Fantasy Goes to Hell."

Copies of the complete issue can be purchased directly from the Mythopoeic Society. Individual pieces can be accessed from their archive at  SWOSU Digital Commons. 

Mythlore 144 Volume 42, Issue 2   

Spring/Summer 2024

Table of Contents

Introduction to the Special Issue: Fantasy Goes to Hell

— Janet Brennan Croft and Erin Gianinni

Tolkien, Augustinian Theodicy, and ‘Lovecraftian’ Evil

— Perry Neil Harrison

Substance Abuse: The Symbolic Geography of Hell in The Great Divorce

— Richard Angelo Bergen

Denial and Acceptance: A Core Myth of Orpheus and Eurydice in the Modern Lyric

— Brian O. Murdoch

Orpheus and the Harrowing of Hell in the Tale of Beren and Lúthien

— Giovanni Carmine Costabile

Two Roads to Hell: Rebirth and Relevance in Musical Adaptations of Katabatic Myth

— Jarrod DePrado

Timeless Moments: Russell Kirk, Charles Williams, and Stephen King on the Afterlife

— Camilo Peralta

Hell on His Mind: Dean Winchester’s Journey to Hell and Back

— Anna Caterino

“Hell is Only a Word, The Reality is Much, Much Worse”: Black Holes as Fantasy Gateways to Hell

— Kristine Larsen

Hell as an Exploration of Sin: A Comparison of Alan Moore’s Providence to Dante’s Inferno

— Zachary Rutledge

Notes and Letters

Dating “The Dark Tower”: C.S. Lewis, the Nazis, and the Jews — Lee Oser

Whatever Happened to The Princess Bride? Thoughts for Further William Goldman Research — G. Connor Salter

Some Observations on the Newspaper Reports on Tolkien’s Andrew Lang Lecture in 1939 — Matthew Thompson-Handell

In Memoriam: Peter J. Schakel — Janet Brennan Croft

In Memoriam: Richard (Dick) Plotz — Janet Brennan Croft

Reviews

Monster Midway: An Uninhibited Look at the Glittering World of the Carny by William Lindsay Gresham — G. Connor Salter

Fantasy: How It Works by Brian Attebery — Glenn R. Gray

Tarot and Other Meditation Decks: History, Theory, Aesthetics, Typology, 2nd edition, by Emily E. Auger — Laurel M. Stevens

The Archetype of the Dying and Rising God in World Mythology by Paul R. Rovang — James Hamby

The Inklings, the Victorians, and the Moderns: Reconciling Tradition in the Modern Age by Christopher Butynskyi — Hannah Frances Roux

Essays Triologue: Kepler, Twain, Lewis by Susan Dorman — Sharon L. Bolding

Pursuing an Earthy Spirituality: C.S. Lewis and Incarnational Faith by Gary S. Selby — Sarah O’Dell

The Literary Tarot, The Literary Tarot Classics Edition Guidebook, and Oracle’s Atlas: A Companion to the Literary Tarot Classics Edition from the Brink Literacy Project — Emily E. Auger

The Medieval Worlds of Neil Gaiman: From Beowulf to Sleeping Beauty by Shiloh Carroll — Kris Swank

J.R.R. Tolkien in Central Europe: Context, Directions, and the Legacy edited by Janka Kascakova and David Levente Palatinus — Nancy Martsch

Tolkien in the Twenty-First Century: The Meaning of Middle-Earth Today by Nick Groom — Laura N. Van Dyke

Ursula K. Le Guin’s “A Wizard of Earthsea”: A Critical Companion by Timothy S. Miller, and Ursula Le Guin’s Earthsea by John Plotz — David Bratman

Mystical Perelandra: My Lifelong Reading of C.S. Lewis & His Favorite Book by James Como — Eleanor Knobil

A Joyful Outpost: Exploring the Household Economy of the Beavers from The Lion, The Witch, and the Wardrobe, by Aaron Bair — Josiah Peterson

Journey Back Again: Reasons to Visit Middle-earth, Mythopoeic Press edition, edited by Diana Pavlac Glyer — Kristine Larsen

J.R.R. Tolkien’s The Hobbit: Realizing History Through Fantasy by Robert T. Tally Jr. — Bianca Beronio

Historical Dictionary of Fantasy Literature, 2nd edition, by Allen Stroud — Douglas A. Anderson

Briefly Noted:

101 Middle Eastern Tales and their Impact on Western Oral Tradition, by Ulrich Marzolph — Daniel C. Snell

The Road to Fair Elfland: Tolkien on Fairy-stories: An Extended Commentary, by Giovanni Carmine Costabile — Landon Loftin

Mythlore for Fall Winter 2023

 

The latest from the Mythopoeic Society. Available for purchase at their website.

Mythlore 143 Volume 42, Issue 1

Fall/Winter 2023    

Table of Contents

Editorial

— Janet Brennan Croft

The Posttraumatic Stress Disorder of Frodo Baggins

— Bruce Leonard

“It is ‘About’ Nothing But Itself”: Tolkienian Theology Beyond the Domination of the Author

— Tom Emanuel

“Or Break It”: The Cost of Silmarils and Sworn Oaths

— Alexander M. Bruce

Through Fire and Water: The Exodus of the Gondothlim

— Ethan Danner

“A Bleak, Barren Land”: Women and Fertility in The Lord of the Rings

— Dylan L. Henderson

Otherworldly but not the Otherworld: Tolkien’s Adaptation of Medieval Faerie and Fairies into a Sub-creative Elvendom

— Elliot Thomas Collins

Negative Estrangement: Fantasy and Race in the Drow and Drizzt Do’Urden

— Steven Holmes

Mythos to Myth to Mythopoeia: A Cyclical Process

— Ashna Mary Jacobs and Nirmala Menon

Notes and Letters

“A Fearful Weapon” — Verlyn Flieger

The Sun, The Son, and the Silmarillion: Christopher Tolkien and the Copernican Revolution of Morgoth’s Ring — Kristine Larsen

On the Rings of Power: Thoughts Inspired by Larry Burris’s “Sentience and Sapience in the One Ring” — Nancy Martsch

Nine Tolkien Scholars Respond to Charles W. Mills’s “The Wretched of Middle-earth: An Orkish Manifesto” — Robin Anne Reid, Bianca L. Beronio, Robert Stuart, Robert T. Tally Jr., Tom Ue, Cait Coker, Cami Agan, Charlotte Krausz, Helen Young

To the Editor — Charles A. Huttar

The C.S. Lewis Correspondence Project — Bruce R. Johnson

In Memoriam: Mike Foster — Janet Brennan Croft

Reviews

Inkling, Historian, Soldier, And Brother: A Life Of Warren Hamilton Lewis by Don W. King — David Bratman

“Uncle Curro”: J.R.R. Tolkien’s Spanish Connection by José Manuel Ferrández Bru — Nicole M. duPlessis

C.S. Lewis for Beginners by Louis Markos — Wendell Wagner

Jewish Fantasy Worldwide: Trends in Speculative Stories from Australia to Chile, edited by Valerie Estelle Frankel — G. Connor Salter

Tolkien Dogmatics: Theology through Mythology with the Maker of Middle-earth by Austin M. Freeman — Alex (Oleksiy) Ostaltsev

The Lion’s Country: C.S. Lewis’s Theory of the Real by Charlie W. Starr — Mark-Elliot Finley

How to Misunderstand Tolkien: The Critics and the Fantasy Master by Bruno Bacelli — Nancy Martsch

Death in Supernatural: Critical Essays, edited by Amanda Taylor and Susan Nylander — Martina G. Wise

Adapting Tolkien: Proceedings of the Tolkien Society Seminar 2020, edited by Will Sherwood — Alana White

East of the Wardrobe: The Unexpected Worlds of C.S. Lewis by Warwick Ball — Philip Irving Mitchell

Nólë Hyarmenillo: An Anthology of Iberian Scholarship on Tolkien, edited by Nuno Simões Rodrigues, Martin Simonson, and Angélica Varandas — Nancy Martsch

Sunbeams and Bottles: The Theology, Thought and Reading of C.S. Lewis by James Prothero — Suzanne Bray

The Great Tales Never End: Essays in Memory of Christopher Tolkien, edited by Richard Ovenden and Catherine McIlwaine — Cait Coker

Tending the Heart of Virtue: How Classic Stories Awaken a Child’s Moral Imagination, Second Edition, by Vigen Guroian — Sarah O’Dell

Robert Holdstock’s Mythago Woood: A Critical Companion by Paul Kincaid — Glenn R. Gray

After Humanity: A Guide to C.S. Lewis’s The Abolition of Man, by Michael Ward — Jeremy M. Rios

Briefly Noted:

The Fairy Tale World, edited by Andrew Teverson — Janet Brennan Croft

Mythlore for Spring/Summer 2023

The latest issue of Mythlore was recently released. Please support the journal by purchasing a print or digital copy. Ordering information is available from their website at this link.

Mythlore 142 Volume 41, Issue 2

Spring/Summer 2023

Table of Contents

Editorial
— Janet Brennan Croft

Terry Pratchett’s Witches Novels and the Consensus Fantasy Universe: A Feminist Perspective
— Clair Hutchings-Budd

Blood on the Snow, Soot on the Carpet: Belief as Pedagogy in Terry Pratchett’s Hogfather
— Michael A. Moir, Jr.

The Unicorn Trade: Towards a Cultural History of the Mass-market Unicorn
— Timothy Miller

The felix culpa in Tolkien’s Legendarium: A Catalyst for Character and Reader Transformation
— Nathan CJ Hood

The Stolen Gift: Tolkien and the Problem of Suicide
— Martin Lockerd

Mythopoesis in Tennyson’s Idylls of the King
— Rebecca A. Umland

Wizards and Woods: The Environmental Ethics of Tolkien’s Istari
— Kenton L. Sena and Philip J. Vogel

Gollum from Medieval Tragedy to Liberal Tragedy in J.R.R. Tolkien’s The Lord of the Rings
— Masoud Tadayoni and Mohsen Hanif

Delving Too Greedily: Analyzing Prejudice Against Tolkien’s Dwarves as Historical Bias
— Mitchell T. Dennis and Kenton L. Sena

Notes

• Sentience and Sapience in the One Ring: The Reality of Tolkien’s Master Ring — Larry Burriss
• The One Ring of King Solomon — Giovanni Carmine Costabile
• The Dragon and the Railway Station — Verlyn Flieger

Reviews

• Thinking Queerly: Medievalism, Wizardry, and Neurodiversity in Young Adult Texts by Jes Battis — Marisa Mills
• George MacDonald in the Age of Miracles: Incarnation, Doubt, and Reenchantment by Timothy Larsen — James Hamby
• Harry Potter and the Other: Race, Justice, and Difference in the Wizarding World edited by Sarah Park Dahlen and Ebony Elizabeth Thomas, and Open at the Close: Literary Essays on Harry Potter edited by Cecelia Koncharr Farr — Joseph Rex Young
• The Medieval Mind of C.S. Lewis: How Great Books Shaped a Great Mind by Jason M. Baxter — Josiah Peterson
• Discovering Dune: Essays on Frank Herbert’s Epic Saga edited by Dominic J. Nardi and N. Trevor Brierly — G. Connor Salter
• Mythmaking Across Boundaries edited by Züleyha Çetiner-Öktem — Sarah Beach
• The Lord of the Rings Tarot Deck and Guide by Casey Gilly and Tomás Hijo — Emily E. Auger
• The Map of Wilderland: Ecocritical Reflections on Tolkien’s Myth of Wilderness by Amber Lehning — Maria K. Alberto
• Primitive Mythology (The Masks of God, Volume 1) by Joseph Campbell — Phillip Fitzsimmons
• Superman in Myth and Folklore by Daniel Peretti, and The Mythology of the Superhero by Andrew R. Bahlmann — David Emerson
• Fairy Tales, Myth, and Psychoanalytic Theory: Feminism and Retelling the Tale by Veronica L. Schanoes — John Rosegrant
• The Leadership of C.S. Lewis: Ten Traits to Encourage Change and Growth by Crystal Hurd — Mark-Eliot Finley
• The Gallant Edith Bratt: J.R.R. Tolkien’s Inspiration by Nancy Bunting and Seamus Hamill-Keays — María Fernández Portaencasa
• Nancy-Lou Patterson Reviews Books by and About Dorothy L. Sayers, C.S. Lewis, J.R.R. Tolkien, Charles Williams, and Others by Nancy-Lou Patterson, edited by Emily E. Auger and Janet Brennan Croft — David Bratman
• The Transcendent Vision of Mythopoeic Fantasy by David S. Hogsette — Douglas A. Anderson
• Tolkien, Enchantment, and Loss: Steps on the Developmental Journey by John Rosegrant — Timothy K. Lenz

Briefly Noted:

• Ithell Colquhuon Taro as Color tarot deck and book by Ithell Colquhoun — Emily E. Auger

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

Now Available Mythlore 138

Mythlore 138 Volume 39, Issue 2

Spring/Summer 2021   

Available for purchase from the Mythopoeic Society at http://www.mythsoc.org/mythlore/mythlore-138.htm.

Table of Contents

Editorial
— Janet Brennan Croft

Special Issue Contents: Honoring Ursula K. Le Guin: Citizen of Mondath

Introduction to the Special Issue: The Art, the Craft, the Tale of Vision and Re-vision: Ursula K. Le Guin Shows the Way
— Melanie A. Rawls

Aspects of Worldbuilding: Taoism as Foundational in Ursula K. Le Guin’s Earthsea Saga
— Dennis Friedrichsen

Magic, Witchcraft, and Faërie: Evolution of Magical Ideas in Ursula K. Le Guin’s Earthsea Cycle
— Oleksandra Filonenko

The Taoist Myths of Winter: Mythopoesis in The Left Hand of Darkness
— Derance A. Rolim Filho

Who is There? Subjectivity, Transformation, and the Child’s Journey in Ursula K. Le Guin’s The Tombs of Atuan
— Meghgann Cassidy

“Beware Her, the Day She Finds Her Strength!”: Tehanu and the Power of the Marginalized to Affect Social Change in Ursula K. Le Guin’s Earthsea Saga
— Jon Alkorta Martiartu

The Four Deaths of Ged
— John Rosegrant

Special Issue Notes:
— The Practical Geography of Always Coming Home, David Bratman
— Ursula’s Bookshelf, Kris Swank

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Notes and Letters

• Regarding “The ‘Polish Inkling,’” David Bratman
• In Memoriam: Richard C. West, Janet Brennan Croft

 

Reviews

• Tolkien’s Lost Chaucer, by John M. Bowers — Joe R. Christopher
• Tarot, by Jessica Hundley, and Astrology, by Andrea Richards — Emily E. Auger
• Crossing a Great Frontier: Essays on George MacDonald’s Phantastes, edited by John Pennington — Tiffany Brooke Martin
• Re-Enchanted: The Rise of Children’s Fantasy Literature in the Twentieth Century , by Maria Sachiko Cecire — T.S. Miller
• Rebirth in the Life and Works of Beatrix Potter, by Richard Tuerk — John Rosegrant
• The Art of the Occult: A Visual Sourcebook for the Modern Mystic, by S. Elizabeth — Emily E. Auger
• The Oxford Handbook of Victorian Medievalism, edited by Joanne Parker and Corinna Wagner — Alana White
• Journey Back Again: Reasons to Revisit Middle-earth, edited by Diana Pavlac Glyer — Megan N. Fontenot
• Waking the Dead: George MacDonald as Philosopher, Mystic, and Apologist , by Dean Hardy — Jeremy M. Rios
• Splendour in the Dark: C.S. Lewis’s Dymer in His Life and Work, edited by Jerry Root — Melody Green
• Fantasies of Time and Death: Dunsany, Eddison, Tolkien, by Anna Vaninskaya — Sarah R.A. Waters
• Briefly Noted: Fafnir: Nordic Journal of Science Fiction and Fantasy Research — Janet Brennan Croft

 

 

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

 

 

CFP Ursula K. Le Guin Spec. Issue of Mythlore (updated 12/20/2020)

I couldn't find an updated text, but Mythlore has recently revised its deadline for a special issue commemorating the life and works of Ursula K. Le Guin.

A PDF version of the revised call can be accessed here.


This was the last version of the call:
https://call-for-papers.sas.upenn.edu/cfp/2020/02/12/deadline-extended-honoring-ursula-k-le-guin-citizen-of-mondrath


DEADLINE EXTENDED: Honoring Ursula K. Le Guin: Citizen of Mondrath


deadline for submissions:
May 25, 2020


full name / name of organization:
Mythlore, a journal of C.S. Lewis, J.R.R. Tolkien, Charles Williams, and Mythopoeic Literature


contact email:
mythlore@mythsoc.org

Call for Papers for Special Issue of Mythlore, Fall 2020:

Honoring Ursula K. Le Guin: Citizen of Mondrath

Guest Edited by Melanie A. Rawls



Proposal deadline March 25, Draft deadline June 25, Final paper deadline August 25

PROPOSAL DEADLINE EXTENDED to MAY 25



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 Ursula K. Le Guin, grandmaster of mythopoeic fantasy.

We welcome essays on the following topics: Le Guin’s Earthsea series, the three novels of the “Annals of the Western Shore,” namely Gifts, Voices, and Powers, the young adult novel The Beginning Place, and her fantasy short stories.

Le Guin’s masterwork Always Coming Home has a special place in Mythopoeic Society history, as it was the topic of a panel when she was Guest of Honor at Mythcon 19 in 1988. Though this work is not considered strictly fantasy, it clearly has mythopoeic elements, and we welcome articles on this text

Other potential topics for articles include:

• Good and evil in Le Guin’s worlds
• Gender
• Power and its uses and abuses
• Jungian and Taoist elements in Le Guin’s writing

We also call for articles on her critical essays that examine mythopoeic writing and any of her poetry or non-fantasy writing that has mythopoeic themes and imagery. We welcome articles that explore Le Guin’s influence on the fantasy genre as a whole and on other writers, as well as articles exploring how other writers influenced Le Guin (Le Guin claimed Philip K. Dick and Walter M. Miller as influences in an interview).



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.

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.