Mythlore
A scholarly, peer-reviewed journal devoted to the study of mythopoeic literature
A scholarly, peer-reviewed journal devoted to the study of mythopoeic literature
Mythlore 132 Volume 36, Issue 2
Spring/Summer 2018 (purchase below)
Table of Contents
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
- bC.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
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