Mythlore 134

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Mythlore 134, Volume 37, Issue 2
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Editor: Janet Brennan Croft
Publication information:
Publisher: Mythopoeic Society
Released: Spring/Summer 2019
Format: Paperback
Pages: 240

Mythlore 134 (Volume 37, Issue 2) is an issue of the Mythlore journal, published by the Mythopoeic Society.

Contents[edit | edit source]

Articles[edit | edit source]

  • Reid, Robin Anne. "On the Shoulders of Gi(E)nts: The Joys of Bibliographic Scholarship and Fanzines in Tolkien Studies."
  • DuPlessis, Nicole M. "On the Shoulders of Humphrey Carpenter: Reconsidering Biographical Representation and Scholarly Perception of Edith Tolkien."
  • Inchbald, Guy W. B. "The Last Serialist: C.S. Lewis and J.W. Dunne."
  • Chisholm, Chad. "Saruman as 'Sophist' or Sophist Foil? Tolkien’s Wizards and the Ethics of Persuasion."
  • Montgomery, Abigail L. "Gunslinger Roland from Yeats’s Towers Came(?): A Little-Studied Influence on Stephen King’s Dark Tower Series."
  • Croft, Janet Brennan. "'Auntie, What Ails Thee?': The Parzival Question in Orphan Black."

Features[edit | edit source]

  • Croft, Janet Brennan. Editorial.
  • Croft, Janet Brennan. Mythlore at 50.
  • Berube, Pierre H. An Unsourced Poem in Lewis’s Great Divorce.
  • Berman, Ruth. Narnian Stars.
  • Croft, Janet Brennan. In Memoriam: Nancy-Lou Patterson.

Reviews[edit | edit source]

  • Fairy Tale: A Very Short Introduction by Marina Warner. Reviewed by Barbara L. Prescott.
  • The Inklings and King Arthur: J.R.R. Tolkien, Charles Williams, C.S. Lewis, and Owen Barfield on the Matter of Britain. Ed. Sørina Higgins. Reviewed by Jared Lobdell.
  • Tolkien, Self and Other: "This Queer Creature." by Jane Chance and Tolkien and Alterity. Eds. Christopher Vaccaro and Yvette Kisor. Reviewed by Jason Fisher.
  • The Lion in the Waste Lane: Fearsome Redemption in the Works of C.S. Lewis, Dorothy L. Sayers, and T.S. Eliot by Janice Brown. Reviewed by James Stockton.
  • Goddesses: Mysteries of the Feminine Divine by Joseph Campbell, Ed. Safron Rossi. Reviewed by Carl Badgley.
  • "The Sweet and the Bitter": Death and Dying in J. R. R. Tolkien's The Lord of the Rings by Amy Amendt-Raduege. Reviewed by Laura Lee Smith.
  • Fire and Snow: Climate Fiction from the Inklings to Game of Thrones by Marc DiPaolo. Reviewed by 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, foreword by Colin Duriez. Reviewed by Felicia Jean Steele.
  • C.S. Lewis: A Very Short Introduction by James Como. Reviewed by Zachary A. Rhone.
  • Pamela Colman Smith: The Untold Story by Stuart R. Kaplan with Mary K. Greer, Elizabeth Foley O'Connor, and Melinda Boyd Parsons. Reviewed by Emily E. Auger.
  • Women Who Fly: Goddesses, Witches, Mystics, and Other Airborne Females by Serinity Young. Reviewed by Felicity Gilbert.
  • The Place of the Lion and War in Heaven by Charles Williams. Reviewed by Janet Brennan Croft.
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