Volume 15 Number 3 Article 9 Spring 3-15-1989 An Inklings Bibliography (34) Joe R. Christopher Wayne G. Hammond Pat Allen Hargis Follow this and additional works at: https://dc.swosu.edu/mythlore Part of the Children's and Young Adult Literature Commons Recommended Citation Christopher, Joe R.; Hammond, Wayne G.; and Hargis, Pat Allen (1989) "An Inklings Bibliography (34)," Mythlore: A Journal of J.R.R. Tolkien, C.S. Lewis, Charles Williams, and Mythopoeic Literature: Vol. 15 : No. 3 , Article 9. Available at: https://dc.swosu.edu/mythlore/vol15/iss3/9 This Article is brought to you for free and open access by the Mythopoeic Society at SWOSU Digital Commons. It has been accepted for inclusion in Mythlore: A Journal of J.R.R. Tolkien, C.S. Lewis, Charles Williams, and Mythopoeic Literature by an authorized editor of SWOSU Digital Commons. An ADA compliant document is available upon request. For more information, please contact [email protected]. To join the Mythopoeic Society go to: http://www.mythsoc.org/join.htm Mythcon 51: A VIRTUAL “HALFLING” MYTHCON July 31 - August 1, 2021 (Saturday and Sunday) http://www.mythsoc.org/mythcon/mythcon-51.htm Mythcon 52: The Mythic, the Fantastic, and the Alien Albuquerque, New Mexico; July 29 - August 1, 2022 http://www.mythsoc.org/mythcon/mythcon-52.htm Abstract For entries 34–41 in this series, Hammond reviews Tolkien titles, Christopher reviews the Lewis material, and Hargis reviews Williams and the other Inklings. This article is available in Mythlore: A Journal of J.R.R. Tolkien, C.S. Lewis, Charles Williams, and Mythopoeic Literature: https://dc.swosu.edu/mythlore/vol15/iss3/9 MYTHLORE 57: Spring 1989 Page 61 Sin Innings Bib (34) Compiled by Joe Christopher, ‘Wayne Q. Mammond, and Tat Allen Slargis [Introduction: This installment represents the first epic writer." His "pronouncements on Old and Middle full installment of the newly refigured Inklings' Bib­ English Literature," chiefly "Beowulf: The Monsters and liography. In this issu e, D r. C hristo p her w ill be w rit­ the Critics" and "Ofermod," the appendix to The Homecom­ ing entries only related to C.S. Lewis, rather than for ing of Beorhtnoth Beorhthelm's Son, are assigned with Beowulf and Sir Gawain in the first two weeks of the fifteen- all the Inklings, as was done in the past. M ythlore week course. Next, Tolkien's "On Fairy-Stories" is read welcomes two new bibliographers to its Staff: Wayne with The Hobbit and his shorter fiction. "The students dis­ G. Hammond for J.R.R. Tolkien, and Pat Allen Hargis cover that these stories reveal the same morality and for Charles Williams and the other Inklings. This medievalism as do the essays on Beowulf and Sir Gawain triad will strengthen the refigured Inklings' Bibliog­ and the Green Knight, and indeed that Farmer Giles o f Ham raphy. The initials at the end of each entry indicates in many ways parodies the later work." The Lord of the Rings w hich bibliograp her w rote it. — G G] is read in the final eight weeks of the course. Chance also outlines a more advanced course on Tolkien and His Sour­ Authors and readers are encouraged to send off­ ces, which would include as assigned readings the Ancrene prints and bibliographic references on: JX ..R . T o lk ie n Riwle, the Mabinogion, the Eddas, and other epics, Tolkien's — Wayne G. Hammond, 30 Talcott Road, Wil- works including Unfinished Tales, Joseph Campbell's The liamstown, MA 01267; C.S. L e w is — Dr. J.R. Chris­ Hero with a Thousand Faces, and Chance's own Tolkien's Art topher, English Department, Tarleton State Univer­ (written as Jane Chance Nitzsche). [WGH] sity, Stephenville, TX 76402; Charles W illiams and th e o t h e r I n k lin g s — Pat Allen Hargis, Judson Col­ Bleiler, Everett F. The Guide to Supernatural Fic­ lege, 1151 N. State St., Elgin, IL 60120. tion. Kent, Ohio: Kent State University Press, 1983. xxii + 723 +[one blank] pp. (Lewis 309-310; Tolkien 72,4 9 7 -9 8 ; W illiam s 532-34.) Approaches to Teaching Sir Gawain and the Green Bleiler offers descriptions of 1775 books - novels, col­ Knight. Ed. Miriam Youngerman Miller and Jane lections of short stories, anthologies - from 1750 until 1960 Chance. New York: Modem Language Association of which are "ghost stories, weird fiction, stories of super­ America, 1986. xii + 256 pp. Bibliographies, index. natural horror, fantasy, Gothic novels, occult fiction, and [Lewis, 24,29,33,49,56,86,103,150,157,175; Tolkien, similar literature" (iii). It is easy to quibble with some 3,4, 7,9,11,13,14,30,48, 49, 56, 67, 74,94,119, 120, minor details - for example, he misses Anthony Boucher's 122,128,151-55,184,187,192; Williams, 150] Far and Away (n.d. [1955]), which has his best Gothic story, ’Review copy"; but the sheer accumulation of information Part One of Approaches to Teaching Sir Gawain and the is impressive. For instance, Bleiler describes Sara Green Knight reviews editions and translations of the Coleridge's Phantasmion, Prince of Palmland (1837), which poem and related secondary literature. Part Two is a series some critics have described as a forerunner to The Lord of of essays by members of the MLA on their methods of the Rings, as a cross between Sidney's Arcadia and teaching Sir Gawain or of teaching courses in which Sir eighteenth-century romanticism; he says it is "barely Gawain is part of the syllabus. Works by Tolkien, Lewis, readable" and adds that it probably was an influence on and Williams are mentioned as central to courses, as points George MacDonald (item 391;116). of departure, or as useful for comparison. The Tolkien- Gordon-Davis edition of Sir Gawain, in Middle English is Bleiler's discussion of Lewis involves a brief biographi­ preferred by a majority of teachers. Tolkien's Modem cal note (309) and annotations for Out o f the Silent Planet English edition of Sir Gawain, Pearl, and Sir Orfeo is one of (item 1011; 309), Perelandra (item 1012; 309), That Hideous three collected translations of the works of the Gawain-poet Strength (item 1013; 309-310), and "The Dark Tower" and (with the translations of Margaret Williams and John Other Stories (item 1013; 309-310). The Screwtape Letters, The Gardner) considered suitable for classroom use - in part Great Divorce, and the Chronicles of Narnia are listed in the because it is available in an inexpensive paperback. biographical note. Bleiler does not seem to know Till We Have Faces. In the annotation on Out o f the Silent Planet, Jane Chance's essay, "Tolkien and His Sources" (pp. Bleiler praises the descriptions ("Lewis saw landscapes 151-55), discusses her course at Rice University on 'Tolkien with a painter's eye") and condemns the work as science as medieval critic and scholar, as fairy-story writer, and as fiction ("primitive, often uninventive, and on occasion Page 62___________________________ __________ __________________ MYTHLORE 57: Spring 1989 silly, especially where the smug religiosity impinges on 'W ith this novel Williams abandons the thriller based on the story values"). Of Perelandra, Bleiler is negative, except metaphysics of one sort of another[in the earlier novels], for the style ("very weakly plotted and without much inner and attempts, within the framework of a social novel, to conviction"). Bleiler considers That Hideous Strength to con­ examine the nature of evil." Of All Hallows' Eve: "Much sist of two ill-related parts: he praises the first part of the Williams' most profound and most stimulating novel." Mark Studdock plot ("fine satiric characterizations, excel­ lent descriptions of academic politics and the jostlings and Note: The volume has elaborate back materials. "The schemings within the all-powerful organization") and dis­ phenomenology of contranatural fiction" 551-56) reduces likes the Old Solar/Arthurian material. In "The Dark all "contranatural" plots to six sentences. "Index of motifs Tower" and Other Stories, Bleiler praises "The Dark Tower" and story types" (557-609) has an elaborate classification of ("I found it much more thought-provoking and challeng­ all the fiction in the book by motifs. For example, under ing than the mawkish Perelandra trilogy"0, gives a mixed "Fairies and/or elves" appears a submotif or subtype response to "The Shoddy Land" (:A fine device, though "Heroic fantasy" - and there are the numbers of all four of based on Lewis's distaste for the feminine side of the Tolkien's works (560). There is also a listing for "Heroic culture"), and dismisses "Forms of Things Unknown" fantasy" with the same numbers for the submotif or sub- ('Trivial"). Overall, Bleiler seems particularly unsuited to type "Earth's past (allowing for some leeway in his­ evaluate Lewis, as indicated by the preference for "The toricity)"; another submotif or subtype "Persons and series Dark Tower" over the Ransom Trilogy. of importance" under "Heroic fantasy7 Includes the names "Frodo, Bilbo Baggins, Hobbits" with the same four num­ Bleiler's biographical note on J.R.R. Tolkien includes bers (578). No attempt has been made to find all the Lewis, some secondary works and a general discussion of The Tolkien, and Williams cross references. Following these Hobbit and The Lord of the Rings ("in terms of cultural impact two sections are author and title indices. (JRC) [the latter] is the historically most significant work in the field of fantasy (in the smaller sense) since Alice in Wonder­ Carpenter, Humphrey. JH.R.Tolkien:A Biography. land") (497). Bleiler annotates The Hobbit (item 1605; 497) London:Unwin Paperbacks, 1987.