Mythlore articles from June 22 2004

Mythlore archives from June 22 2004

His Dark Materials: a look into Pullman's interpretation of Milton's Paradise Lost.(Philip Pullman, John Milton)
June 22, 2004... WILLIAM Blake, Percy Bysshe Shelley, Mary Shelley, Alexander Pope, John Keats, Lord Byron, and Philip Pullman. What do all of these writers have in common? Some of their works were strongly influenced by the writings of John Milton, especially...

A note on Charles Williams's Phillida.
June 22, 2004... As is generally known from Alice Mary Hadfield's Charles Williams: An Exploration of his Life and Work (Chs. 4-5), Charles Williams had an intense but "never fully sexual" office romance with Phyllis Jones, the librarian at Amen House (Bosky...

Lewis's Screwtape Letters: the Ascetic Devil and the Aesthetic God.(C.S. Lewis)(Critical essay)
June 22, 2004... IN his very popular book The Screwtape Letters C. S. Lewis portrays his principal evil character as inculcating to fledgling disciples the "realism, dignity, and austerity of Hell" (50), whereas God, the opponent of evil, is pictured as "being...

The Lord of the Rings as elegy.(Critical essay)
June 22, 2004... "'I will tell you the tale of Tinuviel,' said Strider, '[...] It is a fair tale, though it is sad, as are all the tales of Middle-earth, and yet it may lift up your hearts.'" J.R.R. Tolkien, The Lord of the Rings (1) "By 1918 all but...

A larger world: C.S. Lewis on Christianity and Literature.(Critical essay)
June 22, 2004... "Now, good Cesario, but that piece of song, That old and antique song we heard last night, Methought it did relieve my passion much, More than light airs and recollected terms Of these most brisk and giddy-paced times." --Duke Orsino of...

"The young perish and the old linger, withering": J.R.R. Tolkien on World War II.(Critical essay)
June 22, 2004... Introduction J. R. R. Tolkien wrote much of The Lord of the Rings during World War II, but he denied that his work had any allegorical relationship to the war. In the Foreword to the second edition, he asserts that The crucial chapter...

So familiar, yet so strange: mythic shadows of the medieval Gawain romance in Iris Murdoch's Green Knight.(Critical essay)
June 22, 2004... THE British novelist Iris Murdoch is, undoubtedly, one of the most prolific mythopoetic writers of the twentieth century. From her philosophical writings, which are deeply imbued with Platonic myths, to her novels, dialogues, and dramas, which...