Mythcon 29 – July 1998
Mythcon 29
C.S. Lewis:
A Centenary Celebration
Wheaton College
Wheaton, Illinois
Reports from Mythcon 29
- September 1998
- Joan Marie Verba: “The C. S. Lewis Centenary Conference”
- Berni Phillips: “Sue Dawe Taught Lee Speth Real Estate”
- November 1998
- Lee Speth: “Musings of a Pipe Smoking Man”
- Christiana Shepard and Cacie Miller: “Mythcon 29 Report”
- Berni Philips: Book Toss Report
Guests of Honor
Paul F. Ford, Lewis Scholar
Paul F. Ford is the author of A Companion to Narnia, the indispensible guide to C.S. Lewis’s created world, and Professor of Theology and Liturgy at St. John’s College in California. He is the founder of the Southern California C.S. Lewis Society.
Verlyn Flieger, Inklings Scholar
Verlyn Flieger has written Splintered Light: Logos and Language in Tolkien’s World, which demonstrates Tolkien’s use of the language theories of Owen Barfield. She has also presented such Barfield-related papers as “Nemerov and Barfield: the Poet Dreaming in the Scholar’s House” (1985) and “Owen Barfield in Elvish Words” (1996). Her latest book, A Question of Time: J.R.R. Tolkien’s Road to Fäerie, has just been published by Kent State University Press.