Mythcon 39
From Wiki Tolkiendil
Mythcon es el nombre informal de la Annual Mythopoeic Conference organizada por la Mythopoeic Society. La edición 39 tendrá como tema "La Valkiria y la Dios: La Mujer Guerrera en la Fantasía" y se realizará del 15 al 18 de Agosto del 2008 en Central Connecticut State University, en Connecticut, Estados Unidos.
Programa
- Tolkien's Wraiths, Rings, and Dragons: An Exercise in Literary Linguistics, Jason Fisher
- Becoming a Warrior Empress: Chinese Mythology in Twelve Kingdoms: Sea of Shadow, Daniel Baird
- Made to Hold Light: The Feminism of LeGuin’s Earthsea Books, Christopher Tuthill
- The Forgotten Women of Middle-Earth, David Bratman
- Book Discussion: Mythopoeic Award Finalists
- Khazad dûm Book Toss
- The Circles of the World:' Fate,Free Will, and the Oikumene in Elvish Thought, Carl Hostetter
- Wagner's Ring and P. Craig Russell's Reinterpretation, Anne V. Osborne-Coopersmith
- A Tryst With the Transcendentals: C.S. Lewis on Goodness, Truth and Beauty, Donald T. Williams
- Panel: The Xena Syndrome: Overcoming the Stereotype of the Female Warrior on Page & Screen, Janet Croft, Edith Crowe, Ellie Farrell, Arden Smith, moderado por Jessica Burke
- Peter S. Beagle’s The Last Unicorn & Defining Magical Realism, Noelle Davies
- Two Sides of the Same Magic: The Dialectic of Mortality & Immortality in Peter S. Beagle’s The Last Unicorn”, Geoffrey Reiter
- Memory as Evidence in Tolkien Scholarship, Christina Scull
- Changing the Landscape: Women Warriors in the fiction of Robin McKinley, Tammy Gant
- Artistic Form and the Supernatural in Pushing the Bear, Joe Christopher
- Panel The Valkyrie & the Goddess: Women in Mythopoeic Fiction, con Marjorie Burns, Sharan Newman, Verlyn Flieger, Leslie Donovan y moderado por por Jessica Burke)
- Fate and Free Will in Middle-Earth, Verlyn Flieger
- Actuaciones Musicales, Lynn Maudlin y Ted Nasmith
- The Muse and the Succubus: Beatrician and Hollow Love in Descent into Hell and Charles Williams' Life, Bernadette Bosky
- Brightly Shining & Armed for Battle: The Valkyrie Legacy in Tolkien’s Middle-Earth Fiction, Leslie A. Donovan
- Panel: Fairy Stories: A Discussion of "On Fairy Stories" and the Importance of Faërie in Our World, con Marjorie Burns, Verlyn Flieger, Ted Nasmith, Bernadette Bosky; moderado por Anthony Burdge
- Reflections in the Belle Dame’s Button Eyes: Dualism and Identity in Neil Gaiman’s Coraline, Amy Schoofs-Rahne
- At Home Among the Dreaming Spires: Tolkien & Oxford University, Wayne G. Hammond
- King Arthur, Warrior Woman of Camelot? The Transformation of the Matter of Britain in Japan’s ‘Fate/Stay Night’, Michael A. Torregrossa
- C.S. Lewis in Disguise: Fictional Portraits of Jack in the Work of the Inklings, Diana Glyer
- Fantasy vs. Non-Fantasy: Female Characters in Modern British Literature, Hannah Thomas & Cathy Hansen
- Sea Birds & Morning Stars: Ceyx, Alcyone, and the Many Metamorphoses of Eärendil and Elwing, Kristine Larsen
- Panel: Women in Middle-earth, con Ted Nasmith, Sharan Newman, David Bratman; moderado por Janet Croft
- From Middle-earth to Westeros and Back Again; New Artworks in a Familiar Vein, Ted Nasmith
- Esoteric & Democratic: Tradition in Rowling, Tolkien, & Lewis, Nicholas Birns
- The Education of a Witch: Tiffany Aching, Hermione Granger, and Gendered Magic in Discworld & Potterworld, Janet B. Croft
- To Lift a Sword With Pride? Images of Women's Empowerment, Lisa Padol
- Panel Language & Myth: The Role of Language & the Birth of New Languages in Fantasy, con Carl Hostetter, Arden Smith, Alexei Kondratiev, Sharan Newman; Ted Nasmith; moderado by Jason Fisher
- Realistic War in Tolkien’s Battles, Jeff Swift
- Innocence as a 213 Super-Power: Little Girls on the Hero’s Journey, David Emerson
- Cabbages & Kings: Narrative Balance in the Novels of Patricia A. McKillip, Eleanor M. Farrell
- The Thematic Organization of Spirits in Bondage, Joe R. Christopher
