Mythlore articles from January 2006

Mythlore archives from January 2006

Editorial.(Editorial)
January 1, 2006... This issue of Mythlore is the last compiled under the able editorial leadership of Dr. Ted Sherman. Dr. Sherman's great achievement, beginning with his first issue in 1999, was to transform Mythlore into a solid scholarly peer-reviewed journal,...

Hermeticism and the metaphysics of goodness in the Novels of Charles Williams.(essay)(Critical essay)
January 1, 2006... Many readers have found Charles Williams's sustained use of hermetic themes and images too great for a full acceptance of his work. One of Williams's earliest formative encounters with these themes came sometime between 1912 and 1914 when he...

"The Golden Key": a double reading.(essay)(Critical essay)
January 1, 2006... "A genuine work of art must mean many things; the truer its art, the more things it will mean." ("Fantastic Imagination" 317) George MacDonald was a passionate Christian and a passionate Romantic, and his religious thought stretches...

"In my end is my beginning": the fin-negans motif in George MacDonald's At the Back of the North Wind.(essay)(Critical essay)
January 1, 2006... As waters haste unto their sea, And earth unto its earth, So let my heart return to thee, From whom it had its birth. The Vicar's Daughter I died a mineral and became a plant. I died a plant and rose an animal. I died an animal...

From Hades to heaven: Greek mythological influences in C. S. Lewis's The Silver Chair.(essay)(Critical essay)
January 1, 2006... In his Chronicles of Narnia, C. S. Lewis creates a world that teaches children about Christianity outside of a normal religious setting. His mythical stories steeped in Christian ideals present a fresh, magical world that breaks through normal...

Forbidden Forest, enchanted castle: Arthurian spaces in the Harry Potter novels.(essay)(Critical essay)
January 1, 2006... The huge success of the Harry Potter novels has triggered a series of reactions, some of which are reasonably predictable, such as the mass-media machinery that has been built around each successive publication of a new volume, welcomed every...

Haggard's She: Burke's Sublime in a popular romance.(essay)(H. Rider Haggard)(Critical essay)
January 1, 2006... "Enchantment is just what this writer exercised; he fixed pictures in our minds that thirty years have been unable to wear away," Graham Greene confessed in "Rider Haggard's Secret" (Greene 209). J.R.R. Tolkien and C.S. Lewis also affirmed the...

Heorot or Meduseld?: Tolkien's use of Beowulf in "The King of the Golden Hall".(J.R.R. Tolkien)(essay)(Critical essay)
January 1, 2006... In The Road to Middle-earth, T.A. Shippey observes that there is a strong association between the Riders of Rohan in Tolkien's The Lord of the Rings and the Anglo-Saxons of poetry and history, and more specifically that "the chapter 'The King...

Tolkien in the land of Arthur: the Old Forest episode from The Lord of the Rings.(J.R.R. Tolkien)(essay)(Critical essay)
January 1, 2006... For all its earlier medieval origins, serving--particularly in France--the needs of an essentially courtly and aristocratic society, Arthurian literature has far outlived that society. The old Matter of Britain has been incorporated into other...

Reimagining Rose: portrayals of Tolkien's Rosie Cotton in twenty-first century fan fiction.(J.R.R. Tolkien)(essay)(Critical essay)
January 1, 2006... An Incomplete Rose: "Nowhere Elaborated" When one considers the outstanding heroines of J.R.R. Tolkien's Middle-earth, Rosie Cotton may not come immediately to mind. Her competition is daunting, from the regal Galadriel and courageous...