Don’t the Great Tales Never End? Rímur, Late Medieval Iceland, and Tolkien
Galen Miller-Atkins
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In this essay the post-classical, legendary, and chivalric sagas (and their rímur counterparts) are explored for their mutual interdependence ...
Language in C.S. Lewis’ Space Trilogy
Maximilian Hart
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A fascinating discussion on C.S. Lewis' approach to language and language creation in Out of the Silent Planet, Perelandra and That Hideous St...
“Merry Old Englyn: the Familiar and the Strange in the Old English Rhyming Poem”
Patrick Lyon
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The Old English Rhyming Poem is one of the stranger and more overlooked entries in the corpus of OE poetry, often regarded as interesting but ...
Series Theory: Examining the Structure of the Modern Fantasy Epic
Elise Trudel Cedeño
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Series Theory is a new, critical approach to examining Modern Fantasy in a serial context. There are two disparate methods when analyzing fant...
Tenar the Triple Goddess of Earthsea
Susan Dillon
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“The strength of fantasy is the strength of the Self.” – Ursula K. Le Guin, Do-it-Yourself-Cosmology
In 1948, Robert Graves argued that ancien...
“Völsungs rímur: A New English Translation”
Galen Miller-Atkins
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Rímur are long, narrative poems developed in the late medieval period in Iceland. While they form an important link between early medieval Ice...