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Mythlore 141
Publication Information
EditorJanet Brennan Croft
PublisherMythopoeic Society
ReleasedFall/Winter 2022
FormatPaperback
Pages292
Preceded byMythlore 140
Followed byMythlore 142

Mythlore 141 (Volume 41, Issue 1) is an issue of the Mythlore journal, published by the Mythopoeic Society.

Contents

Articles

  • Bratman, David. "Notes of an Inklings Scholar: Musings on Myth and History, Promises and Secrecy, Ethical Reviewing, and the Limits of Authorial Intent."
  • Wills, Eric. "David Lindsay's The Violet Apple."
  • Oliver, Matthew. "History in the Margins: Epigraphs and Negative Space in Robin Hobb’s Assassin’s Apprentice."
  • Olver, Catherine. "Echoing Ecopoetics: Fantasy Literature's Background Sounds."
  • Brander, Elisabeth. "’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."
  • von Kursell, Mikaela E.S. "Haunted Manikins and the Hero(es) Within: The Modern Romantic Hero as the Divinely Inspired Person Inside of the Personality."
  • Peralta, Camilo. "’Delight in Horror’: Charles Williams and Russell Kirk on Hell and the Supernatural."
  • Salter, Gabriel C. "Tellers of Dark Fairy Tales: Common Themes in the Works of C.S. Lewis and Terence Fisher."
  • Mochel-Caballero, Anne-Frédérique. "’What happened to battles are ugly affairs?’: Fighting Girls in the Films The Chronicles of Narnia, Chapters 1, 2 and 3."
  • Hall, Catherine. "’The Evil Side of Heroic Life’: Monsters and Heroes in Beowulf and The Hobbit."
  • Moore, Clare. "Goddess and Mortal: The Celtic and the French Morgan le Fay in Tolkien’s Silmarillion."
  • Prezioso, MG. "Well, I’m Back: Samwise Gamgee and the Future of Tolkien’s Literary Pastoral."

Features

  • Croft, Janet Brennan. Editorial.
  • Weems, Reggie. The Nurse of Elfland: Lizzie Endicott and C.S. Lewis.
  • Bratman, David. What Sam Said.

Reviews

  • Tolkien, Race, and Racism in Middle-earth by Robert Stuart. Reviewed by Robert T. Tally Jr.
  • Queering Faith in Fantasy Literature: Fantastic Incarnations and the Deconstruction of Theology by Taylor Driggers. Reviewed by C. Palmer-Patel.
  • Friendship in The Lord of the Rings by Cristina Casagrande. Reviewed by Mark A. Brians II.
  • Charles Williams and C.S. Lewis: Friends in Co-Inherence by Paul S. Fiddes. Reviewed by Tiffany Brooke Martin.
  • The Writer's Map: An Atlas of Imaginary Lands by Huw Lewis-Jones. Reviewed by Susan M. Moore.
  • Dante's Dream: A Jungian Psychoanalytical Approach by Gwenyth E. Hood. Reviewed by Liam Butchart.
  • The Modern Myths: Adventures in the Machinery of the Popular Imagination by Phillip Ball. Reviewed by 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. Reviewed by Sharon L. Bolding.
  • Two Sagas of Mythical Heroes: Hervor and Heiðrek and Hrólf Kraki and His Champions, translated and edited by Jackson Crawford, and Norse Mythology by Jackson Crawford. Reviewed by Phillip Fitzsimmons.
  • Briefly Noted: Is Superman Circumcised? The Complete Jewish History of the World’s Greatest Hero by Roy Schwartz. Reviewed by Gabriel C. Salter.
  • Briefly Noted: Flying Snakes and Griffin Claws: And Other Classical Myths, Historical Oddities, and Scientific Curiosities by Adrienne Mayor. Reviewed by Janet Brennan Croft.
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