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| Mythlore 139 | |
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| Publication Information | |
| Editor | Janet Brennan Croft |
| Publisher | Mythopoeic Society |
| Released | Fall/Winter 2021 |
| Format | Paperback |
| Pages | 288 |
| Preceded by | Mythlore 138 |
| Followed by | Mythlore 140 |
Mythlore 139 (Volume 40, Issue 1) is an issue of the Mythlore journal, published by the Mythopoeic Society.
Contents
Articles
- Parrila, Sofia. "All Worthy Things: The Personhood of Nature in J.R.R. Tolkien’s Legendarium."
- Schürer, Norbert. "The Shape of Water in J.R.R. Tolkien’s The Lord of the Rings."
- McNulty, Trenton J. "Mirrors to the Underworld: Reflective Portals between Life and Death in the Harry Potter Series."
- Dugger, Julie M. "Lewis and Clarke in the Caves: Art and Platonic Worlds in Piranesi."
- Wise, Dennis Wilson. "Just Reading A Spell for Chameleon: An Appreciation with Caveats, and an Elegy."
- Köhler, Anna. "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 Bartimaeus Trilogy."
- Mamola, Gabriel. "The Conscience of Solomon Kane: Robert E. Howard’s Rhetorics of Motive, World, and Race."
- Gustafson, Mattie E. "But Where Shall Wisdom be Found? The Lord of the Rings and the Wisdom Literature of the Hebrew Bible."
- Thompson, Joseph. "‘Taliessin in the Rose-Garden’: A Symbolic Analysis."
- Honegger, Thomas. "The Enigmatic Loss of Proto-Hobbitic."
- Holmes, John R. "How Tolkien Saved His Neck: A lusinghe Proposition to the Oxford Dante Society."
Features
- Croft, Janet Brennan. Editorial.
- Williams, Donald T. Keystone or Cornerstone? A Rejoinder to Verlyn Flieger on the Alleged "Conflicting Sides" of Tolkien’s Singular Self.
- Weems, Reggie. A Holiday by the Sea: In Search of Cair Paravel.
- Cho, Song. Jane Austen’s Lady Susan as a Possible Source of Inspiration behind C.S. Lewis’s The Screwtape Letters.
Reviews
- Review Essay: Women Tarot Artists Inspired by the Golden Dawn: Recent Publications. Reviewed by Emily E. Auger.
- Tolkien’s Modern Reading by Holly Ordway. Reviewed by Kris Swank.
- The Flight of the Wild Gander by Joseph Campbell. Reviewed by Phillip Fitzsimmons.
- God and the Gothic by Alison Milbank. Reviewed by Douglas A. Anderson.
- The Saga of the Volsungs: With the Saga of Ragnar Lothbrok, translated by Jackson Crawford. Reviewed by Phillip Fitzsimmons.
- Tolkien the Pagan? Reading Middle-earth through a Spiritual Lens, edited by Anna Milon. Reviewed by Alana White.
- Re-Orienting the Fairy Tale: Contemporary Adaptations across Cultures, edited by Mayako Murai and Luciana Cardi. Reviewed by Nada Kujundžić.
- George MacDonald’s Children’s Fantasies and the Divine Imagination by Colin Manlove. Reviewed by Tiffany Brooke Martin.
- The Cards: The Evolution and Power of Tarot by Patrick Maille. Reviewed by Emily E. Auger.
- Terry Pratchett’s Ethical Worlds, edited by Kristin Noone and Emily Lavin Leverett. Reviewed by Felicity Gilbert.
- Briefly Noted: Thanks for Typing, edited by Jukliana Dresvina, and In and Out of Bloomsbury by Martin Ferguson Smith. Reviewed by Janet Brennan Croft.
- Briefly Noted: Encyclopedia of Mythical Objects by Theresa Bane. Reviewed by John Zacharias.
- Briefly Noted: The Shared Witness of C.S. Lewis and Austin Farrer by Phillip Irving Mitchell. Reviewed by Landon B. Loftin.