Volume 36, Number 2 Issue 132, Spring/Summer (2018)
Special issue on divination in fantasy, co-authored with Emily E. Auger
Mythlore is a scholarly, peer-reviewed journal published by the Mythopoeic Society that focuses on the works of J.R.R. Tolkien, C.S. Lewis, Charles Williams, and the genres of myth and fantasy. The full text of Mythlore from 2002 onward is available in several electronic databases from Gale, Ebsco, and ProQuest. Mythlore is also indexed in the Annual Bibliography of English Language and Literature, the Modern Language Association International Bibliography (MLA), and other sources.
See the Aims and Scope for the statement of editorial purpose of the journal.
Issue Art
Mythlore Art, Issue 132
Pat Wayne, Unknown ., and Arthur Rosengarten
Editorial Introduction
Articles
'Love of Knowledge is a Kind of Madness': Competing Platonisms in the Universes of C.S. Lewis and H.P. Lovecraft
Guillaume Bogiaris
Allegorical Reference to Oxford University through Classical Myth in the Early Poetry of Dorothy L. Sayers: A Reading of “Alma Mater” from OP.I..
Barbara L. Prescott
Bilbo Baggins and the Forty Thieves: The Reworking of Folktale Motifs in The Hobbit (and The Lord of the Rings)
Giovanni Carmine Costabile
Notes and Letters
Ursula K. Le Guin: an appreciation
David Bratman
Ursula K. Le Guin in Mythlore
Janet Brennan Croft
Book Reviews
Owen Barfield: Philosophy, Poetry, and Theology. Michael Vincent Di Fuccia
Tiffany Brooke Martin
Scotland's Forgotten Treasure: The Visionary Romances of George MacDonald. Colin Manlove
Bonnie Gaarden
English People. Owen Barfield; Narnia and the Fields of Arbol. Matthew Dickerson and David O'Hara; and The Mythic Dimension. Joseph Campbell
Phillip Fitzsimmons
C.S. Lewis and the Art of Writing: What the Essayist, Poet, Novelist, Literary Critic, Apologist, Memoirist, Theologian Teaches Us about the Life and Craft of Writing. Corey Latta
Tiffany Brooke Martin
C.S. Lewis and the Arts: Creativity in the Shadowlands. Ed. Rod Miller
Michael D. Prevett
Detecting Wimsey: Papers on Dorothy L. Sayer's Detective Fiction. Nancy-Lou Patterson. Ed. Emily E. Auger and Janet Brennan Croft
Joe R. Christopher
Special Section
Letting Sleeping Abnormalities Lie: Lovecraft and the Futility of Divination [Article]
Carol S. Matthews
Divination and Prophecy in JRR Tolkien's The Lord of the Rings: Some Observations [Notes]
Robert F. Tredray
Divination and Human Nature [Review]
Larry Swain
Editor
- Janet Brennan Croft, Rutgers University
- Emily E. Auger
- Phillip Fitzsimmons, Administrator of Mythlore and Society Archives, Southwestern Oklahoma State University
- Verlyn Flieger, University of Maryland, College Park
- Charles Huttar, Hope College
- Peter J. Schakel, Hope College
- Rev. John W. Houghton, The Hill School, Pottstown
- Richard C. West, University of Wisconsin, Madison
- Donna R. White, Arkansas Tech University
