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Wright Radio Interview About Westview Festival and David R. Slayton
No full textSWOSU President Dr. Diana Lovell and University Archivist and Special Collections Librarian Phillip Fitzsimmons were interviewed by Todd Brunner at Wright Radio on March 27th, 2025 from 7:00-7:30 AM
The interview focused on the upcoming annual Westview Festival and keynote speaker David R. Slayton.
The annual Westview Festival will be on Wed. April 16th from 6:00-7:00 PM at the SWOSU Hilltop Theater. The event is free and open to the public.
David R. Slayton is an adult fantasy author from Guthrie, OK. and has written such titles as White Trash Warlock and Dark Moon Shallow Sea
J.R.R. Tolkien’s Utopianism and the Classics, by Hamish Williams. Reviewed by Łukasz Neubauer.
Get PDFAt first glance, the concept of looking at the works of Tolkien through the prism of Classical studies may strike one as eccentric, even misguided. After all, he dedicated his academic life to the study of medieval literature, teach-ing courses in early English poetry as well as Norse myths and sagas. Likewise in his literary oeuvre, the majority of Tolkien’s inspirations are of indisputably medieval character, from the more topical concerns, such as the quest to reclaim the lost treasure in The Hobbit, to the recurrent puns and word-plays in Farmer Giles of Ham
