Mythlore articles from June 22 2003

Mythlore archives from June 22 2003

The anatomy of a friendship: the correspondence of Ruth Pitter and C. S. Lewis, 1946-1962.
June 22, 2003... ALTHOUGH Ruth Pitter (1897-1992) is not well known, her credentials as a poet are extensive, and in England from the mid 1930s to the mid 1970s she maintained a modest yet loyal readership. In total she produced eighteen volumes of new and...

Wizards and wainscots: generic structures and genre themes in the Harry Potter series.(Critical Essay)
June 22, 2003... THE central theme of the twentieth-century genre fantasy novel epitomised by J. R. R. Tolkien's The Lord of the Rings is frequently described simply as the conflict between Evil and Good. In The Comedy of the Fantastic: Ecological Perspectives...

"The whole art and joy of words": Aslan's speech in the Chronicles of Narnia.(Critical Essay)
June 22, 2003... THERE are many instances in literature of characters stepping out of the books which create them. What I mean is that many people recognise and know about Robinson Crusoe, Oliver Twist, or Peter Pan who have certainly never read the stories in...

Brothers of Perpetual Responsibility: monasticism, memory, and penance in Cassutt, Donaldson, and Straczynski (1).(Michael Cassutt, Stephen R. Donaldson, J. Michael Straczynski)(Critical Essay)
June 22, 2003... MANY readers will remember Garrison Keillor's fictional parish in Lake Wobegon, "Our Lady of Perpetual Responsibility." Parody though this name is, it aptly captures a moral stance shared by ascetics in Michael Cassutt's "Perpetual Light,"...

A darker ignorance: C. S. Lewis and the nature of the fall.(Critical Essay)
June 22, 2003... Assuredly we bring not innocence into the world, we bring impurity much rather: that which purifies is trial, and trial is by what is contrary. That virtue therefore which is but a youngling in the contemplation of evil, and knows not the...

Astrid Diener, The Role of Imagination in Culture and Society: Owen Barfield's Early Work.(Book Review)
June 22, 2003... Leipzig Explorations in Literature and Culture 6. Glienicke/Berlin and Cambridge: Galda + Wilch Verlag, 2002. 224pp. ISBN 1931255067 Readers of this journal may recognize the name of the author of this new monograph investigating the early...

King, Roma, ed. To Michal from Serge: Letters from Charles Williams to His Wife Florence, 1939-1945.(Book Review)
June 22, 2003... Kent: Kent State UP, 2002. ix, 315pp. $65.00. ISBN: 0873387120 In this book King brings together an extremely important collection of letters written by Charles Williams during his years in Oxford: in total, it is a selection of 680 letters...