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Copyright for Scholars: Osmosis Doesn't Do the Trick Anymore
No full textA review of four books: Smith, Kevin L. Owning and Using Scholarship: An IP Handbook for Teachers and Researchers; Crews, Kenneth. Copyright Law for Librarians and Educator: Creative Strategies and Practical Solutions; Butler, Rebecca P. Copyright for Academic Librarians and Professionals; Russell, Carrie. Complete Copyright for K-12 Librarians and Educators
Check Your Dashboard, Your Gauges May Be High!
No full textThe long-established academic journal, Mythlore of the Mythopoeic Society, began using the editor’s platform of the SWOSU Digital Commons in 2017. The executive editor, Janet Croft of Rutgers University, will discuss the differences between her former way of managing submissions, reader reviews, and producing a predominantly print journal to doing the work digitally using the editor’s platform of the Institutional Repository. She will describe advantages and disadvantages to using the platform. This is an opportunity for Institutional Repository administrators to ask concrete questions about the learning curve and experience of a seasoned journal editor who has made the transition to using the Digital Commons editor’s platform.Faculty Articles & Research [Southwestern Oklahoma State University] 38; Presentation at Digital Commons Heartland User Group, Fort Hays State University, Kansas, October 15, 201
[Review of] American Myths, Legends, and Tall Tales: An Encyclopedia of American Folklore [edited by Christopher R. Fee and Jeffrey B. Webb (online version)]
No full text[Review of] Laughter in Middle-earth: humour in and around the works of J.R.R. Tolkien, edited by Thomas Honegger and Maureen F. Mann
No full text'What If I'm Still There? What If I Never Left That Clinic?': Faërian Drama in Buffy's "Normal Again".
No full textFaërian Drama is a term developed by J.R.R. Tolkien in his essay “On Fairy-stories,” which he describes as plays which the elves present to men, with a “realism and immediacy beyond the compass of any human mechanism,” where the viewer feels he is “bodily inside its Secondary World” but instead is “in a dream that some other mind is weaving” (63-64). Smith of Wootton Major is a prime example from his own writing; other examples of the genre include A Christmas Carol or the movie Groundhog Day. When we read or view a work containing an example of faërian drama, we add a metafictional layer to the story: we are (or become) aware that the actor or character is experiencing the faërian drama, and part of our engagement as an audience rests in the tense anticipation of whether the character will realize she is in a faërian drama or not.
A number of episodes of Buffy the Vampire Slayer exhibit some characteristics of faërian drama: for example, “The Wish” (3.9) takes Cordelia into a world where Buffy never came to Sunnydale; “The Replacement” (5.3) lets Xander see what his life might be life without his insecurities; in “Hell’s Bells” (6.16) Xander is granted a distorted vision of his future life with Anya, and Anya experiences an opposing vision in “Selfless” (7.5). In this talk I will concentrate on “Normal Again” (6.17), a problematic episode which takes the Faërian drama idea in unexpected directions. Buffy is presented as an institutionalized mental patient lost in delusions of being the Slayer and being pressured to give up this fantasy life and join the “real” world. The ambiguity of the ending presents an unusual twist: the participant in the faërian drama chooses to stay within the fantasy world.Peer reviewe
[Review of] Orcrist no. 9 (2017), The Bulletin of the Tolkien and Fantasy Society at the University of Wisconsin-Madison, 50th Anniversary Issue
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George MacDonald. The Golden Key [book review]
No full textReview of a new illustrated edition of George MacDonald's The Golden Key. Compares to an earlier edition, and considers its influence on Tolkien and Lewis
[Review of] Hither Shore: Jahrbuch der Deutschen Tolkien Gesellschaft. Special issue: Nature and Landscape in Tolkien. Ed. Thomas Fornet-Ponse et al. v. 11 (2014) ; Seven: An Anglo-American Literary Review. Ed. Marjorie Lamp Mead. v. 31 (2014) ; Tolkien Studies: An Annual Scholarly Review. Ed. Michael D.C. Drout, Verlyn Flieger, and David Bratman. v. XII (2015)
No full textReviews of a special issue of Hither Shore: Jahrbuch der Deutschen Tolkien Gesellschaft, a volume of Seven: An Anglo-American Literary Review, and a volume of Tolkien Studies: An Annual Scholarly Review
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