Mythlore 117/118

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Mythlore 117/118, Volume 30, Issue 3/4
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Editor: Janet Brennan Croft
Publication information:
Publisher: Mythopoeic Society
Released: Spring/Summer 2012
Format: Paperback
Pages: 190

Mythlore 117/118 (Volume 30, Issue 3/4) is an issue of the Mythlore journal, published by the Mythopoeic Society.

Contents[edit | edit source]

Articles[edit | edit source]

  • Blomqvist, Rut. "The Road of Our Senses: Search for Personal Meaning and the Limitations of Myth in Neil Gaiman's American Gods."
  • Christopher, Joe R. "From Despoina to Δ."
  • Croft, Janet Brennan. "Psyche in New York: The Devil Wears Prada Updates the Myth."
  • Young, Joe. "Aphrodite on the Home Front: E.R. Eddison and World War II."
  • Carter, Steven Brett. "Faramir and the Heroic Ideal of the Twentieth Century; or, How Aragorn Died at the Somme."
  • Bruce, Alexander M. "The Fall of Gondolin and the Fall of Troy: Tolkien and Book II of The Aeneid."
  • Berman, Ruth. "Watchful Dragons and Sinewy Gnomes: C.S. Lewis's Use of Modern Fairy Tales."
  • Livingston, Michael. "The Myths of the Author: Tolkien and the Medieval Origins of the Word Hobbit."

Features[edit | edit source]

  • Croft, Janet Brennan. Editorial.

Reviews[edit | edit source]

  • The Christian Goddess: Archetype and Theology in the Fantasies of George MacDonald. Bonnie Gaarden. Reviewed by Scott McLaren.
  • Picturing Tolkien: Essays on Peter Jackson's The Lord of the Rings Film Trilogy. Janice M. Bogstad and Philip E. Kaveny, eds. Reviewed by Emily E. Auger.
  • Good Dragons are Rare: An Inquiry into Literary Dragons East and West. Fanfan Chen and Thomas Honegger, eds. Reviewed by David D. Oberhelman.
  • Critical Perspectives on Philip Pullman's His Dark Materials: Essays on the Novels, the Film and the Stage Productions. Steven Barfield and Katharine Cox, eds. Reviewed by Amy S. Rodgers.
  • From Elvish to Klingon: Exploring Invented Languages. Michael Adams, ed. Reviewed by Harley J. Sims.
  • Mythopoeic Narnia: Memory, Metaphor, and Metamorphoses in The Chronicles of Narnia. Salwa Khoddam. Reviewed by Holly Ordway.
  • Abiding in the Sanctuary: The Waite-Trinick Tarot: A Christian Mystical Tarot (1917-1923). Tali Goodwin and Marcus Katz. Preface by Mary K. Greer. Reviewed by Emily E. Auger.
  • Tolkien and Wales: Language, Literature, and Identity. Carl Phelpstead. Reviewed by Sara Brown.
  • North Wind: A Journal of George MacDonald Studies. #29 (2010). Edited by Fernando Soto and John Pennington. Reviewed by Janet Brennan Croft.
  • VII: An Anglo-American Literary Review. #28 (2011). Edited by Marjorie Lamp Mead et al. Reviewed by Janet Brennan Croft.
  • Tolkien Studies: An Annual Scholarly Review. #8 (2011). Edited by Douglas A. Anderson, Michael D.C. Drout, and Verlyn Flieger. Reviewed by Janet Brennan Croft.
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