Mythlore 115/116 Volume 30, Issue 1-2     (purchase below)

Table of Contents

Editorial
---Janet Brennan Croft

“Beowulf: The Monsters and the Critics” Seventy-five Years Later
---Michael D.C. Drout

Thresholds to Middle-earth: Allegories of Reading, Allegories for Knowledge and Transformation
---Andrew Hallam

The Pearl Maiden’s Psyche: The Middle English Pearl and the Allegorical-Visionary Impulse in Till We Have Faces
---T.S. Miller

Is a “Christian” Mystery Story Possible? Charles Williams’s War in Heaven as a Generic Case Study
---Sørina Higgins

Into the Lion’s Den: Joy Davidman and Metro-Goldwyn-Mayer
---Don W. King

Christian, Norse, and Celtic: Metaphysical Belief Structures in Nancy Farmer’s The Saxon Saga
---Marek Oziewicz

The Great War and Narnia: C.S. Lewis as Soldier and Creator
---Brian Melton

The Lord of the Rings’ Interlace: The Adaptation to Film
---Emily Auger

Reviews

• The Making of a Mystic: New and Selected Letters of Evelyn Underhill. Ed. Carol Poston. (Read Review by Joe R. Christopher)
• From Girl to Goddess: The Heroine’s Journey Through Myth and Legend. By Valerie Estelle Frankel. (Read Review by Janet Brennan Croft)
• The Wizard of Oz and Philosophy: Wicked Wisdom of the West. Ed. Randall E. Auxier and Phillip S. Seng. (Read Review by Ruth Berman)
• C.S. Lewis’s Lost Aeneid: Arms and the Exile. Edited with an Introduction by A.T. Reyes. (Read Review by Richard C. West)
• The Ring and the Cross: Christianity and The Lord of the Rings. Edited by Paul E. Kerry. (Read Review by Harley J. Sims)
• Fastitocalon: Studies in Fantasticism Ancient to Modern 1.2 (2010); Journal of Inklings Studies 1.1 (March 2011); VII: An Anglo-American Literary Review 27 (2010); and Tolkien Studies: An Annual Scholarly Review 7 (2010). (Reviewed by Janet Brennan Croft)
• Tolkien and the Study of His Sources: Critical Essays. Edited by Jason Fisher. (Read Review by Mike Foster.)

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