Mythlore 129 Volume 35, Issue 1

Fall/Winter 2016     (purchase below)

Table of Contents

Editorial
— Janet Brennan Croft

The Face of the Materialist Magician: Lewis, Tolkien, and the Art of Crossing Perilous Streets
— Robert Boenig

Chesterton’s Ballad of the White Horse: From Conception to Critical Reception
— Nicholas Milne

Locating Lakeside, Wisconsin: Neil Gaiman’s American Gods and the American Small-town Utopia
— Jake La Jeunesse

“It Was Allowed to One”: C.S. Lewis on the Practice of Substitution
— Andrew C. Stout

Anthony Boucher’s Greatest Horror Story
— Joe R. Christopher

Literary Dependence in the Fiction of C.S. Lewis: Two Case Studies
— Thomas Schmidt

The Disabled Hero: Being and Ethics in Peter Jackson’s The Lord of the Rings
— Todd A. Comer

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Notes and Letters

• A reply to Rosegrant, Nancy Bunting

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Reviews

• Bratman, David: The Evolution of Modern Fantasy: From Antiquarianism to the Ballantine Adult Fantasy Series. Jamie Williamson.
• Martin, Tiffany Brooke: Bandersnatch: C.S. Lewis, J.R.R. Tolkien, and the Creative Collaboration of the Inklings. Diana Pavlac Glyer.
• Abbott, Alana Joli: The Inklings Coloring Book. James A. Owen.
• Foster, Mike: High Towers and Strong Places: A Political History of Middle-earth. Timothy R. Furnish.
• Lüthi, Daniel: Romance of the Grail: The Magic and Mystery of Arthurian Myth. Joseph Campbell.
• Wise, Dennis Wilson: Wizards vs. Muggles: Essays on Identity and the Harry Potter Universe. Edited by Christopher E. Bell.
• Rovang, Paul R.: Reflecting the Eternal: Dante’s Divine Comedy in the Novels of C.S. Lewis. Marsha Daigle-Williamson.
• Jarman, Cody: Mythic Worlds, Modern Words: Joseph Campbell on the Art of James Joyce. Joseph Campbell.
• Bolding, Sharon: Basic Categories of Fantastic Literature Revisited. Edited by Andrzej Wicher, Piotr Spyra and Joanna Matyjaszczyk.
• Swank, Kris: The Surprising Imagination of C.S. Lewis: An Introduction. Jerry Root and Mark Neal; and Ransoming the Waste Land: Papers on C.S. Lewis’s Space Trilogy, Chronicles of Narnia, and Other Works. Nancy-Lou Patterson. Edited by Emily E. Auger and Janet Brennan Croft.
• Hurd, Crystal: Harry Potter and the Classical World: Greek and Roman Allusions in J.K. Rowling’s Modern Epic. Richard Spencer.
• Martin, Tiffany Brooke: C.S. Lewis and his Circle: Essays and Memoirs from the Oxford C.S. Lewis Society. Edited by Roger White, Judith Wolfe, and Brendan N. Wolfe.
• Choat, Rebekah: C.S. Lewis Goes to Hell: A Companion and Study Guide to The Screwtape Letters. William O’Flaherty.
• Green, Melody: Approaches to Teaching Tolkien’s The Lord of the Rings and Other Works. Edited by Leslie A. Donovan.
• Fisher, Jason: A Companion to J.R.R. Tolkien. Edited by Stuart D. Lee.
• Croft, Janet Brennan. VII: Journal of the Marion E. Wade Center (Seven), edited by Marjorie Lamp Mead. v.32 (2015); and Waymeet for Tolkien Teachers, edited by Leslie Donovan.

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