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Monthly Archives: April 2016
Last Chance to Sign Up: Mythologies of Love and Sex (Signum University Class)
I am truly pleased to be offering a course at Signum University this coming Spring. This is my first time teaching at Signum, and I love the way they set up their courses: An inexpensive and accessible online program with … Continue reading
Posted in Fictional Worlds, News & Links, Reflections
Tagged C.S. Lewis, higher education, literature, love, myth, Mythgard Academy, mythology, mythopoiea, sex, Signum University
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Interview with William O’Flaherty, “C.S. Lewis Goes to Hell”
Readers of A Pilgrim in Narnia will know of my abiding interest in The Screwtape Letters. As the 75th anniversary of the first printing of the Letters is next Monday, we are taking a couple of weeks to celebrate this “positively diabolical” … Continue reading
How Screwtape was Introduced to the World
Next week we are celebrating the 75th anniversary of the book that made C.S. Lewis a household name: The Screwtape Letters. It was first serialized in The Guardian, a relatively minor Anglican weekly. Screwtape joins Charles Dickens‘ Bleak House, Frank Herbert’s Dune, and Stephen King‘s The Green Mile … Continue reading
Tolkien’s Road: A Film (Friday Feature)
A reader tipped me off to this little piece. While documentaries on J.R.R. Tolkien abound, and there are adaptations of his fiction, there have been few who have attempted to capture the story of the Mythmaker himself on film. Here … Continue reading
Posted in Feature Friday, News & Links
Tagged Addison's Walk, C.S. Lewis, Inklings, J.R.R. Tolkien, Middle Earth, myth, mythopoiea, Oxford, PTSD, The Book of Lost Tales, The Hobbit, Tolkien's Road, WWI
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The Shocking Reason Tolkien Finished The Lord of the Rings
J.R.R. Tolkien was a notoriously difficult writer to get to print. That The Hobbit found its way to store shelves was something of a publishing miracle, and it took Tolkien 15 years to write part two, “the new Hobbit,” which we … Continue reading
Posted in Fictional Worlds, On Writing, Original Research, Thoughtful Essays
Tagged Bandersnatch, C.S. Lewis, Charles Williams, Christopher Tolkien, Diana Pavlac Glyer, fictional worlds, J.R.R. Tolkien, Lord of the Rings, Middle Earth, mythopoiea, speculative fiction, The Company They Keep, The Hobbit, The Silmarilion, writing
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12 Reasons not to Write Lord of the Rings, or an Ode Against the Muses
I’ve never understood images of the Muses as seducers. Perhaps I am not truly inspired, but I get the same cold, clammy response from the Muses as I did from girls when I was in Junior High School. Fortunately, I … Continue reading
500 Posts!
Dear Reader, On Wednesday, in a rather inane reaction to David Foster Wallace’s impossible book, Infinite Jest, I hit 500 posts. I have talked about blogging here and here, so I won’t completely rehash the delights and difficulties of blogging. For … Continue reading
Posted in Reflections
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