Mythlore 138 Volume 39, Issue 2

Spring/Summer 2021     (purchase below)

Table of Contents

Editorial
— Janet Brennan Croft

Special Issue Contents: Honoring Ursula K. Le Guin: Citizen of Mondath

Introduction to the Special Issue: The Art, the Craft, the Tale of Vision and Re-vision: Ursula K. Le Guin Shows the Way
— Melanie A. Rawls

Aspects of Worldbuilding: Taoism as Foundational in Ursula K. Le Guin’s Earthsea Saga
— Dennis Friedrichsen

Magic, Witchcraft, and Faërie: Evolution of Magical Ideas in Ursula K. Le Guin’s Earthsea Cycle
— Oleksandra Filonenko

The Taoist Myths of Winter: Mythopoesis in The Left Hand of Darkness
— Derance A. Rolim Filho

Who is There? Subjectivity, Transformation, and the Child’s Journey in Ursula K. Le Guin’s The Tombs of Atuan
— Meghgann Cassidy

“Beware Her, the Day She Finds Her Strength!”: Tehanu and the Power of the Marginalized to Affect Social Change in Ursula K. Le Guin’s Earthsea Saga
— Jon Alkorta Martiartu

The Four Deaths of Ged
— John Rosegrant

Special Issue Notes:
— The Practical Geography of Always Coming Home, David Bratman
— Ursula’s Bookshelf, Kris Swank

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Notes and Letters

• Regarding “The ‘Polish Inkling,’” David Bratman
• In Memoriam: Richard C. West, Janet Brennan Croft

Reviews

• Tolkien’s Lost Chaucer, by John M. Bowers — Joe R. Christopher
• Tarot, by Jessica Hundley, and Astrology, by Andrea Richards — Emily E. Auger
• Crossing a Great Frontier: Essays on George MacDonald’s Phantastes, edited by John Pennington — Tiffany Brooke Martin
• Re-Enchanted: The Rise of Children’s Fantasy Literature in the Twentieth Century , by Maria Sachiko Cecire — T.S. Miller
• Rebirth in the Life and Works of Beatrix Potter, by Richard Tuerk — John Rosegrant
• The Art of the Occult: A Visual Sourcebook for the Modern Mystic, by S. Elizabeth — Emily E. Auger
• The Oxford Handbook of Victorian Medievalism, edited by Joanne Parker and Corinna Wagner — Alana White
• Journey Back Again: Reasons to Revisit Middle-earth, edited by Diana Pavlac Glyer — Megan N. Fontenot
• Waking the Dead: George MacDonald as Philosopher, Mystic, and Apologist , by Dean Hardy — Jeremy M. Rios
• Splendour in the Dark: C.S. Lewis’s Dymer in His Life and Work, edited by Jerry Root — Melody Green
• Fantasies of Time and Death: Dunsany, Eddison, Tolkien, by Anna Vaninskaya — Sarah R.A. Waters
• Briefly Noted: Fafnir: Nordic Journal of Science Fiction and Fantasy Research — Janet Brennan Croft

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