Mythlore 128 Volume 34, Issue 2

Spring/Summer 2016     (purchase below)

Table of Contents

Editorial
— Janet Brennan Croft

A Spenserian Returns to Earth: The Faerie Queene in C.S. Lewis's That Hideous Strength
— Paul Rovang

The Use of the Vertical Plane to Indicate Holiness in C.S. Lewis’s Space Trilogy
— Sarah Eddings

Seven for Seven: The Voyage of the “Dawn Treader” and the Literary Tradition
— Thomas L. Martin

C.S. Lewis’s Debt to Dante: The Voyage of the “Dawn Treader” and Purgatorio
— Mattison Schuknecht

C.S. Lewis’s Two Satyrs
— Joe R. Christopher

The Helmholtz, the Doctor, the Minotaur, and the Labyrinth
— Buket Akgün

Breaking the Dragon’s Gaze: Commodity Fetishism in Tolkien’s Middle-earth
— Steven Kelly

Mapping Gender in Middle-earth
— John Miller

The Black Speech: The Lord of the Rings as a Modern Linguistic Critique
— Cody Jarman

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Notes and Letters

• A Comment on “1904: Tolkien, Trauma, and its Anniversaries,” John Rosegrant
• Jean Louise to the Dark Tower Came, Debra Polesiak
• American Survivor: William Faulkner’s A Fable, Ryder W. Miller

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Reviews

• McLaren, Scott. Reviews of Charles Williams: The Third Inkling by Grevel Lindop, and The Chapel of the Thorn: A Dramatic Poem by Charles Williams, edited and introduced by Sørina Higgins.
• Choat, Rebekah. Review of Women and C.S. Lewis: What His Life and Literature Reveal For Today’s Culture; Carolyn Curtis and Mary Pomroy Key, eds.
• Stout, Andrew C. Review of Tolkien Among the Moderns, edited by Ralph C. Wood.
• Coker, Cait. Review of Tolkien by Raymond Edwards.
• Roberts, Brian. Review of Children Into Swans: Fairy Tales and the Pagan Imagination by Jan Beveridge.
• Orazi, Kelly. Reviews of Trilby / The Crumb Fairy by Charles Nodier, translated and adapted by Ruth Berman, and The Prince of the Aquamarines by Louise Cavalier Levesque, trans. and with an afterword by Ruth Berman.
• Larsen, Kristine. Review of The Lessons of Nature in Mythology by Rachel S. McCoppin.
• Croft, Janet Brennan. Reviews of Hither Shore v. 11 (2014), Seven: An Anglo-American Literary Review v.31 (2014), and Tolkien Studies: An Annual Scholarly Review v. XII (2015).
• Mirova, Emily Moniz. Review of The Skill of a Seeker: Rowling, Religion and Gen 9/11 by Marilyn R. Pukkila.
• Green, Melody. Review of Light: C.S. Lewis’s First and Final Short Story by Charlie W. Starr.
• Foster, Mike. Review of The Story of Kullervo by J.R.R. Tolkien, edited and introduced by Verlyn Flieger.
• Christopher, Joe R. Review of The Victorian Approach to Modernism in the Fiction of Dorothy L. Sayers by Aoife Leahy.
• Croft, Janet Brennan. Review of Reading Joss Whedon; Rhonda V. Wilcox, Tanya R. Cochran, Cynthea Masson, and David Lavery, eds.
• Green, Melody. Review of Discussing Mere Christianity: Exploring the History, Meaning and Relevance of C.S. Lewis’s Greatest Work by Devin Brown and Eric Metaxas, and C.S. Lewis’s Christian Apologetics: Pro and Con, ed. Gregory Bassham.

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