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Programming
The following papers have been accepted for Mythcon 43.
David Oberhelman
From Iberian to Ibran and Catholic to Quintarian: Lois McMaster Bujold’s Alternate History of the Spanish Reconquest in the Chalion Series
Faith Harkey
“Lit like a burning city”: the Words We Use to Describe Spiritual Experience
Natalia Tuliakova
Asian Legends in European Context: D. Mamin-Sibiryak’s “Legends”
Brian Godawa
Leviathan vs. the Storm God: Biblical Authors’ Appropriation and Subversion of Ancient Near Eastern Mythopoeia
Janet Croft
Tolkien’s Faerian Drama: Origins and Valedictions
Madhumita Dutta
Archetypal Myth and a Modern Epic—A Reading of Sri Aurobindo’s epic Savitri: a Legend and a Symbol
Hussein Zamani
A Mythological Reflection on Modern Literature
Arden Smith
“Mr. Took and Mr. Brandybuck, and this is Sam Gamgee. My name is Yamanoshita.”
Megan Grove
The Earth and the Self are Dragons—Chinese Ritual, Tolkienian Subcreation, and the Mythopoeic Pursuit of Understanding
Don Williams
Coming Home: The Influence of Chesterton’s The Everlasting Man on C. S. Lewis.
Andrew Hallam
Thresholds to the Marvelous? Allegory and Irony in Jim Butcher’s The Dresden Files
Valerie Estelle Frankel
Unbound: Comparing Eastern and Western Cinderella Novelizations
Eleanor M. Farrell and Lynn Maudlin
Auspicious Guardian, Dreadful Wyrm: Eastern and Western Views of the Dragon
Kelly Cowling
Things as They Are Meant to Be Seen: The Inklings and Aesthetic Theory
Marjorie Ellenwood
The Problem of Calormen in Narnia: Racism and Islamophobia in C.S. Lewis and Recognizing Ancient Egyptian Influences
Natalie Romero
Music in the Void: Creation by Song in The Silmarillion and The Magician’s Nephew
Kendra Kravig
One Name to Rule Them All: The Magic of Names and Its Connection to Religion in The Lord of the Rings
Sam McBride
Imperfection, Folly, and Unaligned Evil in Middle-earth
Coral Lumbley
Tolkien and the Transgressive Body: Subversions of Hetero-normativity in the Races of Middle-earth
David Bratman
Mervyn Peake: Western Fantasist from China
Tony Zbaraschuk
Frodo, Lord of the Ring
Kelly Orazi
Through the Wardrobe and Under-Hill: World and Setting in Children’s Fantasy Literature
Jim Stockton
Telmarines, and Calormens, and Jinns! Oh, My!: Reflections on a Politically Incorrect Narnia in a Post-colonial Era
Sean Ryan Robinson
Out of the Wardrobe
Alyssa House-Thomas
The Wondrous Orientalism of Lord Dunsany
Rebecca Renee Hess
Katniss Everdeen, Girl on Fire: The Ambiguous Gender Role of the Female Hero
Scott Holbrook-Foust
Two Trees Twining: Rays of Light in the Northern Night
Penelope Holdaway
The Phoenix and the Leaf
Sarah E. Thomson
This also is he: Charles Williams’ Introductory Voice
Laura Smith
Who Moved My Hoard: The Reluctant Traveler Meets the Dragon
Alex Taylor
O Most Noble Greenness: Language, Tradition, and the Making of Myth in Yuki Urushibara’s Mushishi
Matthew Minner
The Sword and the Brush: Introduction to Chinese Wuxia
Danielle Crawford
Renegotiating the Politics of Myth: Asian American Identity in Amy Tan’s The Hundred Secret Senses
Jason Fisher
J.R.R. Tolkien: The Foolhardy Philologist
