For more information and to register and buy room and board packages, please visit Mythcon 44's website. Progress Report #1 will be out within days!
If you're driving you REALLY might want to buy a parking pass for the weekend because, otherwise, you'll have to trot out every morning early and put money into the ticket machine!
GO RIGHT OVER to Mythcon 43 Room & Board page and buy everything you need (including registration, in case you haven't joined yet) to have a GREAT Mythcon!
Mythcon 43
Across the Continents:
Myths and legends from Europe and Asia meet and mingle
Clark Kerr Campus,
University of California-Berkeley
Berkeley, CA
August 3-6, 2012
http://www.mythsoc.org/news/mythcon-43-p
The second progress report for Mythcon 43, to be held this August 3-6, 2012 in Berkeley, California, is now available:
- Download Progress Report 2 (PDF, 290 KB)
You don't need to be a member of Mythcon to go and read it.
But you do need to Join Soon! Room and Board Packages need to be in by July 9th and Mail In Registration closed July 15!
- Current Mood:Informative
Extra Nights
Coming early or leaving a day later? Extra nights, Room Only, are available for Thursday and Monday. If you need any extra nights but these, please let us know ASAP, so arrangements can be made.
Extra Night – Double Occupancy (per person) $52.00
Extra Night – Single Occupancy $77.00
Extra Meals –Staying an extra day, don’t want the whole commuter packet, Extra Meals are available.
Breakfast - $11.10
Lunch - $13.28
Dinner $15.18
Note to the non-planners – Clark Kerr does sell meals for cash at the Dining Room, but they are very limited in number. Please do not depend on this. Make everyone’s day easier, and pre-pay for meals when possible. We all thank you.
Parking Pass
Parking is available in the Southwest Lot at Clark Kerr Campus, right next to the Krutch Theatre Building.
For Commuters - They have machines and parking is $1 an hour. The machines are cranky and expire every morning. Bring lots of change.
Thus for people actually staying in the dorms and to make life easier on those commuting, you can buy a Parking Pass. This is good from Friday when you arrive to Monday Noon (check out). $42.
Arriving early, leaving late, don’t need all three days – Daily Passes are $14 a day.
- Current Mood:busy
MYTHLORE
Issue 117/118 Volume 30, Number 3/4 Spring/Summer 2012
Editorial
Janet Brennan Croft . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 3
The Road of Our Senses: Search for Personal Meaning and the Limitations of Myth in Neil Gaiman’s American Gods
Rut Blomqvist. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 5
From Despoina to Δ
Joe R. Christopher . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 27
Psyche in New York: The Devil Wears Prada Updates the Myth
Janet Brennan Croft . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 55
Aphrodite on the Home Front: E.R. Eddison and World War II
Joe Young. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 71
Faramir and the Heroic Ideal of the Twentieth Century: Or, How Aragorn Died at the Somme
Steven Brett Carter . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 89
The Fall of Gondor and the Fall of Troy: Tolkien and Book II of The Aeneid
Alexander M. Bruce . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 103
Watchful Dragons and Sinewy Gnomes: C.S. Lewis’s Use of Modern Fairy Tales
Ruth Berman. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 117
The Myths of the Author: Tolkien and the Medieval Origins of the Word Hobbit
Michael Livingston . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 129
Reviews. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 147
The Christian Goddess: Archetype and Theology in the Fantasies of George MacDonald. Bonnie Gaarden. —Scott McLaren
Picturing Tolkien: Essays on Peter Jackson’s The Lord of the Rings Film Trilogy. Janice M. Bogstad and Philip E. Kaveny, eds. —Emily E. Auger
Good Dragons are Rare: An Inquiry into Literary Dragons East and West. Fanfan Chen and Thomas Honegger, eds. —David D. Oberhelman
Critical Perspectives on Philip Pullman’s His Dark Materials: Essays on the Novels, the Film and the Stage Productions. Steven Barfield and Katharine Cox, eds. —Amy S. Rodgers
From Elvish to Klingon: Exploring Invented Languages. Michael Adams, ed. —Harley J. Sims
Mythopoeic Narnia: Memory, Metaphor, and Metamorphosis in The Chronicles of Narnia. Salwa Khoddam. —Holly Ordway
Abiding in the Sanctuary: The Waite-Trinick Tarot: A Christian Mystical Tarot (1917–1923). Tali Goodwin and Marcus Katz. —Emily E. Auger
Tolkien and Wales: Language, Literature, and Identity. Carl Phelpstead. —Sara Brown
North Wind: A Journal of George MacDonald Studies. #29 (2010). VII: An Anglo-American Literary Review. #28 (2011). Tolkien Studies: An Annual Scholarly Review. #8 (2011). —Janet Brennan Croft
Mythcon 43
Across the Continents:
Myths and legends from Europe
and Asia meet and mingle
University of California-Berkeley
Guests of Honor
Prof. G. Ronald Murphy, SJ – Scholar
Malinda Lo – Author – malindalo.com
Room and Board Information and payment links are now on our website.
We've also posted the Membership Rates from now until the con.. Join now before Prices Go Up!
See you at the con.
- Current Mood:accomplished
The good news: Malinda Lo, author of Ash and Huntress (etc.) has agreed to be our new author GOH and her work is wonderfully apt for our theme.
We are very happy she has decided to come to Mythcon 43.
- Current Mood:
happy
Full details are on our website.
What were your favorite Fantasy and Myth Scholarship Books for last year? After nominating them, how about posting your choices here?
http://www.mythsoc.org/mythcon/43/papers/
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