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 66 Volume 17, Issue 4 (purchase below)
Summer 1991
Table of Contents
Articles
- Potts, Stephen. “The Many Faces of the Hero in The Lord of the Rings.”
- Simmons, Courtney Lynn, and Joe Simmons. “The Silver Chair and Plato’s Allegory of the Cave: Archetypes of Spiritual Liberation.”
- Roche, Norma. “Sailing West: Tolkien, the Saint Brendan Story, and the Idea of Paradise in the West.”
- Byfield, Bruce. “‘Sister Picture of Dorian Grey’: The Image of the Female in Fritz Leiber’s Conjure Wife.”
- Callahan, Tim. “Devil, Trickster and Fool.”
- Thorpe, Dwayne. “Fantasy Characterization: The Example of Tolkien.”
- Kenny, Stuart. “The Now of Salvation: Thoughts on Charles Williams’s ‘Et In Sempiternum Pereant’.”
- Ryan, J. S. “By ‘Significant’ Compounding ‘We Pass Insensibly in the World of Epic’.”
Features
- GoodKnight, Glen H. Editorial Introduction: Chronological Snobbery.
- Christopher, Joe R., and Wayne G. Hammond. An Inklings Bibliography (43).
- Letters.
Reviews
- The 1992 J.R.R. Tolkien Calendar. Illus. by Ted Nasmith. Reviewed by Paula DiSante.
- Word and Story in C.S. Lewis. Ed. Peter J. Schakel and Charles A. Huttar. Reviewed by Nancy-Lou Patterson.
- Dorothy L. Sayers, Solving the Mystery of Wickedness. Mitzi Brunsdale. Reviewed by Nancy-Lou Patterson.
- The Lord of the Rings (Original Motion Picture Soundtrack). Leonard Rosenman. Reviewed by Chris Seeman.
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