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 109/110 Volume 28, Issue 3-4 (purchase below)
Table of Contents
J.R.R. Tolkien’s “Leaf by Niggle”: An Allegory in Transformation---Marie Nelson
Phantastical Regress: The Return of Desire and Deed in Phantastes and The Pilgrim’s Regress
---Jeffrey Bilbro
The Marriage of Heaven and Hell? Philip Pullman, C.S. Lewis, and the Fantasy Tradition
---Marek Oziewicz and Daniel Hade
C.S. Lewis’s “The Meteorite” and the Importance of Context
---Joe R. Christopher
Fairy and Elves in Tolkien and Traditional Literature
---Helios de Rosario Martínez
“Dwarves are Not Heroes”: Antisemitism and the Dwarves in J.R.R. Tolkien’s Writing
---Rebecca Brackmann
Rethinking Shylock’s Tragedy: Radford’s Critique of Anti-Semitism in The Merchant of Venice
---Frank P. Riga
Totemic Reflexes in Tolkien’s Middle-earth
---Yvette Kisor
The Voice of Saruman: Wizards and Rhetoric in The Two Towers
---Jay Ruud
The Shire Quest: The ‘Scouring of the Shire’ as the Narrative and Thematic Focus of The Lord of the Rings
---David M. Waito
Reviews
This issue we feature reviews of the following:- Where the Shadows Lie: A Jungian Interpretation of Tolkien’s The Lord of the Rings, by Pia Skogemann (Read Review)
- Finding Oz: How L. Frank Baum Discovered the Great American Story, by Evan I. Schwartz (Read Review)
- Out of My Bone: The Letters of Joy Davidman, edited by Don W. King (Read Review)
- Collected Poems, by Mervyn Peake (Read Review)
- C.S. Lewis on the Final Frontier: Science and the Supernatural in the Space Trilogy, by Sanford Schwartz (Read Review)
- Death and Fantasy: Essays on Philip Pullman, C.S. Lewis, George MacDonald, and R.L. Stevenson, by William Gray (Read Review)
- Stephen R. Donaldson and the Modern Epic Vision by Christine Barkley (Read Review)
- The Fantastic Horizon: Essays and Reviews, by Darrell Schweitzer (Read Review)
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