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Ursula Le Guin’s Universes
Get PDFThis panel will be discussing the relationships of the panelists to Le Guin’s work and to Le Guin herself. Is there an intersection between their work and hers? Did they meet her? If so, what it was like working with her? What is their best Le Guin story? What do they see as their most “Le Guinian” work and why. What are their favorite Le Guin works? What do they see as her most underrated work we should all go read
J.R.R. Tolkien and the Essence of Enchantment
Get PDFIt is well-known that Tolkien saturated his works with his love of language, so it is worthwhile to reflect on the particular ways that he loved language. Tolkien especially loved languages of the past, and the past of languages, and he especially loved the esthetics of language: the sounds themselves, and the match between sound and meaning. He was thus searching for the beauty that could still be perceived in what was lost in language, a position like that of the Beowulf poet gazing from the top of his tower at the sea of fading paganism. This position can be understood psychologically as one of beckoning for preverbal experience across the gap that is created by language. Lacan recognized that after we develop language our earlier experience is lost to awareness, leaving us longing for what we had but do not know, which if we do experience it brings jouissance, madness or overpowering joy—think eucatastrophe and enchantment. Kristeva realized that these early experiences are not completely suppressed by language but enter it via tone and musicality, Tolkien’s own special emphasis and desire. Tolkien’s longing for and partial integration of the preverbal with language was likely accentuated by his leaving South Africa and his father when he was three years old, about the time that language ability typically solidifies. By so saturating his works with his particular feeling for language, Tolkien keyed into this central psychological anguish and desire that is part of life for all of us. By highlighting and partially fulfilling this anguish and desire, he touched the essence of enchantment
An insider’s take on the German SF market
Get PDFGary Lynch has lived in Germany, and presents his “take.
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Emptied floor space for exhibition (northeast corner, first floor, Al Harris Library)
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Onlookers listening to the Southwestern Singers at the Exhibit’s Opening Ceremony
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View of the center aisle of the exhibition
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SWOSU President, Dr. Diana Lovell reading about the electoral college
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Dr. Daniel Farris singing with the Southwestern Singers at the Exhibit’s Opening Ceremony
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Moderator Jeff Berrong speaking with panelists
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