Re-Enchantment and Post-Secularity in Game of Thrones
Question: What do Daenerys Targaryen, The Unburnt, Breaker of Chains, Mother of Dragons, and yourself—with fingers hovering idly over trackpad and eyes bouncing across…
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Review: How to Survive the Apocalypse
Alissa Wilkinson and Robert Joustra. How to Survive the Apocalypse: Zombies, Cylons, Faith, and Politics at the End of the World. Eerdmans, Grand Rapids,…
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Review: The Scientific Fairy Tales of Victorian Britain
Melanie Keefe. Science in Wonderland: The Scientific Fairy Tales of Victorian Britain. Oxford, UK: Oxford University Press, 2015. vi+ 232pp. £16.99/$24.99 hardcover. In…
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Review: C. S. Lewis’s Perelandra: Reshaping the Image of the Cosmos
C. S. Lewis’s Perelandra: Reshaping the Image of the Cosmos. Edited by Judith Wolfe and Brendan Wolfe. 2013, 184 pp., Cloth, $45.00. ISBN 978-1-60635-183-3. Perelandra is not the…
Read MoreMything the Point: Why Some Stories Strike True and Others Fall Short [Part Two]
George MacDonald speaks of the true essence of a meaningful fairytale in his classic essay, “The Fantastic Imagination”: [A fairytale] cannot help having some…
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Under the Wings of the Bat: Symbol & Community in Neil Gaiman’s Whatever Happened to the Caped Crusader?
Superheroes are often re-born in different incarnations. A writer will start the storyline afresh and a new version of the hero will be born….
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E. Nesbit as Fantasy God-Mother
For many readers – H.G. Wells and Laurence Houseman, G.K. Chesterton and Noel Coward – for these and thousands more, the most magical stories…
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