MLA Commons | Patrick McEvoy-Halston | Activity https://mla.hcommons.org/members/patrickmcevoyhalston/activity/ Activity feed for Patrick McEvoy-Halston. Sat, 04 Apr 2026 15:45:30 -0400 https://buddypress.org/?v=10.6.0 en-US 30 hourly 2 3a53fd4deb2ba6a532d10503fbe7e1e1 Patrick McEvoy-Halston deposited Wolfenheimer in the group GS Speculative Fiction https://mla.hcommons.org/activity/p/1854168/ Tue, 08 Aug 2023 01:24:23 -0400 Makes use of the opportunity of the release of “Oppenheimer” to explore how Gene Wolfe uses his texts as factories into which guilt is inserted, but emerge ameliorated. Narrative serving the primary purpose of restructuring subconscious memory.

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]]> 0 1fbccf7e64f84924f0b665b1e5e58409 Patrick McEvoy-Halston edited the post Wolfenheimer in the group On Wolfe https://genewolfe.mla.hcommons.org/2023/08/02/wolfenheimer/ Wed, 02 Aug 2023 15:17:34 -0400 Wolfenheimer:  Gene Wolfe’s Showing How to Use Text to Counter Bombs that had Already Dropped

In Oppenheimer, Oppenheimer, as well as the other scientists at work at the Los Alamos laboratory, face a si […]

]]> 267d95412dd9525b7364120341f55296 Patrick McEvoy-Halston edited the post Wolfe in Barbieland in the group On Wolfe https://genewolfe.mla.hcommons.org/2023/07/25/wolfe-in-barbieland/ Tue, 25 Jul 2023 18:03:38 -0400 Wolfe in Barbieland

There is a theme in “Barbie” that resonates as Wolfeian. Ken feels that he does not exist until Barbie looks at him with admiration. He therefore spends his life doing things he hopes might […]

]]> 2349d2c52108d4338bab4443e5a83749 Patrick McEvoy-Halston edited the post "There are Doors" in the group On Wolfe https://genewolfe.mla.hcommons.org/2023/06/02/there-are-doors/ Fri, 02 Jun 2023 12:01:14 -0400 Some morning thoughts. Spoilers.

It’s about a guy who lost a mother who may… as diagnosed by Laura, have been his best friend, but may also have simultaneously been a predator, someone who kept him all to […]

]]> eabf941bfe81b98b65fbbb3716cdd169 Patrick McEvoy-Halston edited the post Gene Wolfe, a novelist who explores the true self vs. the false self psychic formation in the group On Wolfe https://genewolfe.mla.hcommons.org/2023/05/29/gene-wolfe-a-novelist-who-explores-the-true-self-vs-the-false-self-psychic-formation/ Mon, 29 May 2023 14:20:34 -0400 One of the things I’m increasingly noticing about Wolfe is how he seems a novelist focussed on exploring what makes for true self-esteem. His characters seem to at some times succumb to soothing false narratives […]

]]> 8ed92e839289ccccaf9b8bb4d68c7123 Patrick McEvoy-Halston edited the post Detective of Dreams in the group On Wolfe https://genewolfe.mla.hcommons.org/2023/05/29/detective-of-dreams/ Mon, 29 May 2023 13:21:16 -0400 The first person he visits, Fräulein A, sounds a bit like “New Sun’s” Agia and a bit like Cinderella. No father in the picture, only a mother. She’s poor, works hawking good in a central market place, but seeks […]

]]> 76fc7f3bd4691fbf7af742d7b7453768 Patrick McEvoy-Halston edited the post Silk' Purse is really a sow's ear? in the group On Wolfe https://genewolfe.mla.hcommons.org/2023/04/19/silk-purse-is-really-a-sows-ear/ Wed, 19 Apr 2023 21:12:02 -0400 In Short Sun we are lead to presume that Silk cannot admit he is Silk because that would mean accepting that Horn sacrificed his life for him. Owing to the emotional/psychic dissonance accepting this would cause […]

]]> 3cc158b89f5088e75d975a9d5f99acd4 Patrick McEvoy-Halston edited the post Wolf at the Door in the group On Wolfe https://genewolfe.mla.hcommons.org/2023/03/08/wolf-at-the-door/ Wed, 08 Mar 2023 13:34:12 -0500 Bruno Bettelheim in “Uses of Enchantment”:

“In “Little Red Riding Hood” the kindly grandmother undergoes a sudden replacement by the rapacious wolf which threatens to destroy the child. How silly a trans […]

]]> a864f8de0fe4dfb70c5d20e04608b8d6 Patrick McEvoy-Halston edited the post Femina: The feminine atmospheres in the Medieval and in Wolfe in the group On Wolfe https://genewolfe.mla.hcommons.org/2023/02/28/femina-the-feminine-atmospheres-in-the-medieval-and-in-wolfe/ Tue, 28 Feb 2023 14:15:15 -0500 This book, “Femina: A New History of the Middle Ages, Through the Women Written Out of It,” may be of interest to Wolfe fans. It covers two periods, the Norse (or rather, very early Christian) and the Medieval — […]

]]> 7a9dca42f63d390bb9dba4a23cb1eaea Patrick McEvoy-Halston edited the post two of Wolfe's Innocents in the group On Wolfe https://genewolfe.mla.hcommons.org/2023/02/26/two-cents-on-wolfes-innocents/ Sun, 26 Feb 2023 00:06:34 -0500 Tree is My Hat, Short Sun, and Home Fires spoilers

In “The Tree is My Hat” you have a man who is estranged from his wife. He writes to her, but they don’t get along. He has taken a new “wife,” a much younger […]

]]> 85b625757132a60143efc27f2d010c91 Patrick McEvoy-Halston edited the post Terror and pull-back: short Sun' operations in the group On Wolfe https://genewolfe.mla.hcommons.org/2023/02/25/terror-and-pull-back-short-sun-operations/ Sat, 25 Feb 2023 22:00:27 -0500 I’ve recently done a re-read of Short Sun and one of the things I’m noticing is that Wolfe will have a protagonist project for us a terrible development, a terrible development that easily could have occurred, […]

]]> 2f4ba2504c56c7dd3659ba056859a416 Patrick McEvoy-Halston edited the post Cassie did not relent in the group On Wolfe https://genewolfe.mla.hcommons.org/2023/02/25/cassie-did-not-relent/ Sat, 25 Feb 2023 21:03:39 -0500 In “Peace” Weer has Gold where he wants him. He has figured out Gold has been forging texts that have become historical documents. Gold dispatches his daughter out to seduce him. He puts his will against […]

]]> d44318cb1cbbb4d5252f7b8906469b90 Patrick McEvoy-Halston deposited Interlibrary Loan: Wolfe borrowing some of his fans for permanent loan in the group GS Speculative Fiction https://mla.hcommons.org/activity/p/1777439/ Wed, 06 Apr 2022 03:48:43 -0400 In Craig Brewer’s analysis of Gene Wolfe’s Interlibrary Loan he argues that the treasure, the green box, is something that allows characters means to keep their memories intact; it affords them integration which is otherwise ostensibly unavailable to them for being reclones who have only partial memories.

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]]> 0 6113e74de2dd4f05d16e11f34dc13a95 Patrick McEvoy-Halston edited the post Interlibrary Loan: Wolfe borrowing some of his fans for permanent loan in the group On Wolfe https://genewolfe.mla.hcommons.org/2022/03/31/interlibrary-loan-wolfe-borrowing-some-of-his-fans-for-permanent-loan/ Thu, 31 Mar 2022 21:58:21 -0400 In Craig Brewer’s analysis of Gene Wolfe’s Interlibrary Loan he argues that the treasure, the green box, is something that allows characters means to keep their memories intact; it affords them integration which […]

]]> 9bc6a76b7eb821388eb68164a504a5b3 Patrick McEvoy-Halston deposited Rollback: Leaving Women to Demons in Gene Wolfe's Fiction in the group TM Literary Criticism https://mla.hcommons.org/activity/p/1755577/ Sat, 16 Oct 2021 03:57:52 -0400 Gene Wolfe, living though Severian, re-experiences via Thecla’s characterization of him as not being worth enough to value highly for being what he thought he could only amount to her when he first met her, that is, simply a boy at hand, his own once being lured into the attentions’ of his mother and then dismissed by her when she was done usi…[Read more]

]]> 0 b9cb5e248f8dd9f6d71dabf1671226ac Patrick McEvoy-Halston deposited Rollback: Leaving Women to Demons in Gene Wolfe's Fiction in the group TC Psychology, Psychoanalysis, and Literature https://mla.hcommons.org/activity/p/1755576/ Sat, 16 Oct 2021 03:56:17 -0400 Gene Wolfe, living though Severian, re-experiences via Thecla’s characterization of him as not being worth enough to value highly for being what he thought he could only amount to her when he first met her, that is, simply a boy at hand, his own once being lured into the attentions’ of his mother and then dismissed by her when she was done usi…[Read more]

]]> 0 84a6b79ae1635dce977cf72e2b9279b8 Patrick McEvoy-Halston deposited Rollback: Leaving Women to Demons in Gene Wolfe's Fiction in the group On Wolfe https://mla.hcommons.org/activity/p/1755575/ Sat, 16 Oct 2021 03:56:16 -0400 Gene Wolfe, living though Severian, re-experiences via Thecla’s characterization of him as not being worth enough to value highly for being what he thought he could only amount to her when he first met her, that is, simply a boy at hand, his own once being lured into the attentions’ of his mother and then dismissed by her when she was done usi…[Read more]

]]> 0 0b0cd8421792f92cfef9abb81c5dd485 Patrick McEvoy-Halston deposited Rollback: Leaving Women to Demons in Gene Wolfe's Fiction in the group LLC 20th- and 21st-Century American https://mla.hcommons.org/activity/p/1755574/ Sat, 16 Oct 2021 03:50:44 -0400 Gene Wolfe, living though Severian, re-experiences via Thecla’s characterization of him as not being worth enough to value highly for being what he thought he could only amount to her when he first met her, that is, simply a boy at hand, his own once being lured into the attentions’ of his mother and then dismissed by her when she was done usi…[Read more]

]]> 0 a760c088f5c3bdab89347497fb102c1c Patrick McEvoy-Halston deposited Rollback: Leaving Women to Demons in Gene Wolfe's Fiction in the group GS Speculative Fiction https://mla.hcommons.org/activity/p/1755573/ Sat, 16 Oct 2021 03:48:43 -0400 Gene Wolfe, living though Severian, re-experiences via Thecla’s characterization of him as not being worth enough to value highly for being what he thought he could only amount to her when he first met her, that is, simply a boy at hand, his own once being lured into the attentions’ of his mother and then dismissed by her when she was done usi…[Read more]

]]> 0 189220770c3dcefc3002484e1083ccde Patrick McEvoy-Halston deposited Rollback: Leaving Women to Demons in Gene Wolfe's Fiction https://mla.hcommons.org/activity/p/1755494/ Fri, 15 Oct 2021 10:37:23 -0400 Gene Wolfe, living though Severian, re-experiences via Thecla’s characterization of him as not being worth enough to value highly for being what he thought he could only amount to her when he first met her, that is, simply a boy at hand, his own once being lured into the attentions’ of his mother and then dismissed by her when she was done usi…[Read more]

]]> 0 b88ade09d86ae7e7feff4166901fe9e8 Patrick McEvoy-Halston deposited Expanding the non-Took-side in Bilbo, for victory, in J.R.R. Tolkien’s The Hobbit in the group GS Speculative Fiction https://mla.hcommons.org/activity/p/1750092/ Thu, 26 Aug 2021 03:56:13 -0400 I think the thing that must seem most curious about this adventure to slay a dragon and reclaim a homeland and its treasure, is how the hell could adding a burglar be adding the decisive factor? What’s the trick? For there must be one, since the dragon has only gotten larger and more deadly as the years have gone by. Peter Jackson changes…[Read more]

]]> 0 1c6c233da7baa90b37a0b333a0fcbf43 Patrick McEvoy-Halston deposited Expanding the non-Took-side in Bilbo, for victory, in J.R.R. Tolkien’s The Hobbit https://mla.hcommons.org/activity/p/1750025/ Wed, 25 Aug 2021 12:53:57 -0400 I think the thing that must seem most curious about this adventure to slay a dragon and reclaim a homeland and its treasure, is how the hell could adding a burglar be adding the decisive factor? What’s the trick? For there must be one, since the dragon has only gotten larger and more deadly as the years have gone by. Peter Jackson changes…[Read more]

]]> 0 007404a0ef421b52be0b414e26426b98 Patrick McEvoy-Halston edited the post Damn Communists!: Carrying castration fears in the group On Wolfe https://genewolfe.mla.hcommons.org/2021/05/29/damn-communists-wearing-of-dressing-up-others-to-carry-ones-own-castration-fears/ Tue, 01 Jun 2021 20:40:03 -0400 In the psychohistorian Lloyd deMause’s biographical account of Ronald Reagan, he describes how Reagan, who feared his alcoholic father, who used to kick him with his boot, and unconsciously wished him dead, was terrified at playing a movie role where he would lose his legs because this came too close to his own fear that he deserved to be…[Read more]

]]> 316c0d19b586b6ff839e3f2218888f3c Patrick McEvoy-Halston edited the post Playing with puppets and marionettes, establishes not your generation but your gender in the group On Wolfe https://genewolfe.mla.hcommons.org/2021/05/25/playing-with-puppets-and-marionettes-establishes-not-your-generation-but-your-gender/ Wed, 26 May 2021 12:31:05 -0400 In one of the afterwards to a story in Best of, Wolfe writes that though kids have moved on to high-tech, his remembrance was of his own low-tech toys, the puppets and marionettes he used to play with. As he lists these, we note they’re all versions of ones we saw in battle in War Beneath the Tree, that is, mostly soldiers of various kinds, or…[Read more]

]]> efeb53a674fcd31f612426cab4a970b5 Patrick McEvoy-Halston edited the post Some of that was me: identity adopting in Gene Wolfe in the group On Wolfe https://genewolfe.mla.hcommons.org/2021/05/26/some-of-that-was-me-identity-adopting-in-gene-wolfe/ Wed, 26 May 2021 12:14:53 -0400 “Auk shook his head, and found that it no longer ached. “I’ve never had no god bossing me, Jugs, or wanted to either. That’s lily. I never even knew about Kypris, but you were a lot different when you were Scylla.”

“Some of that was me, I think. Hold me tighter, won’t you? I’m really cold.”

Excerpt From: Gene Wolfe. “Epiphany of the Long…[Read more]

]]> 9f36d4a997b02cf65ed91979733b9995 Patrick McEvoy-Halston edited the post Cross-referencing: an alternative way to read Wolfe in the group On Wolfe https://genewolfe.mla.hcommons.org/2021/05/02/cross-referencing-cross-dressers-an-alternative-way-to-read-wolfe/ Sun, 02 May 2021 15:49:39 -0400 There is a dangerous beast that has come to your door. He has along with him someone he is “carrying” to the door, another personality, who sometimes means well, or more-or-less well, for the home he is visiting, for it is his obligation to do so, but is simultaneously the source of the scare that has people in that home fretful and scurrying.…[Read more]

]]> 68b3e087119678d3aad9e6eae4cc0f6e Patrick McEvoy-Halston edited the post Unconscious to your purposely delivered retaliatory pain: Examples of Silk and Horn in the group On Wolfe https://genewolfe.mla.hcommons.org/2021/05/01/unconscious-to-your-purposely-delivered-retaliatory-pain-examples-of-silk-and-horn/ Sat, 01 May 2021 14:12:11 -0400 In Return to the Whorl, Horn discovers that Silk’s wife, Hyacinth, has cheated on him by finding her way into Generalismo Saba’s bed. After delivering the news, he pro-offers Silk a needler, a gun, so he might kill his wife over her infidelity. Silk replies that his wife wasn’t cheating on him, she was helping him, or was trying to at least, if…[Read more]

]]> 31851ac51581c956b56d1f47a34407c8 Patrick McEvoy-Halston edited the post Gene Wolfe using texts to reframe and rebuild his own psyche, more spared of guilt, part two. in the group On Wolfe https://genewolfe.mla.hcommons.org/2021/04/28/gene-wolfe-using-texts-to-reframe-and-rebuild-his-own-psyche-more-spared-of-guilt-part-two-short-sun-and-new-sun/ Fri, 30 Apr 2021 18:17:55 -0400 If Gene Wolfe’s texts could be imagined as places where Wolfe goes in which to situate experiences in his own life which plague him, but not so much only to pour out his experiences, as one of Wolfe’s heroes Thomas Wolfe did, but to refigure them, so that when he exists this “fictional” world he’s created he might find his own way of understanding…[Read more]

]]> be0e23b85804347df5c8494fc70aa18d Patrick McEvoy-Halston edited the post Perfect homes may be the imperfect ones, but it doesn't let them rest hidden for that. in the group On Wolfe https://genewolfe.mla.hcommons.org/2021/04/29/perfect-homes-may-be-the-imperfect-ones-but-it-doesnt-let-them-rest-hidden-for-that-new-sun-short-sun-home-fires/ Fri, 30 Apr 2021 18:17:32 -0400 When Severian leaves the city of Thrax up into the mountains, he finds himself at the door of a household that is his ideal, not some perfectly ordered place, but one in-sync with the wild around it, full of imperfections, that for Severian is “perfection’s” categorical imperative; that must be true. It’s the home of those “pioneering peasants who…[Read more]

]]> 03605487d48362624860bacb5cdc2943 Patrick McEvoy-Halston edited the post Casdoe's home in the group On Wolfe https://genewolfe.mla.hcommons.org/2021/04/30/casdoes-home/ Fri, 30 Apr 2021 17:20:05 -0400 In New Sun, Severian wonders what drew Becan to bring his family to such a remote and dangerous place. He takes a guess that it was a regressive need to lose manhood and become a child again. In conversation with Becan’s son, also named Severian, we hear:

“That was because you wanted to put down the burden of being a boy, at least for a time. S…[Read more]

]]> 3f5fda5a42c5e091844cd47d16a155ec Patrick McEvoy-Halston edited the post Guilt, Thecla, and Severian in the group On Wolfe https://genewolfe.mla.hcommons.org/2021/04/27/guilt-thecla-and-severian/ Wed, 28 Apr 2021 11:38:32 -0400 Many of Wolfe’s works engage with a main protagonist involved in some action that results in his or her feeling guilty. Severian, for example, feels at some need to try and atone for his playing a part in Thecla’s death, by saving someone else who’s been sentenced to be executed by torturers, Cyriaca. By saving her, a person who reminded him of…[Read more]

]]> 761765fe34164efbc7734e824de9e511 Patrick McEvoy-Halston edited the post Do the torturers, in Gene Wolfe's New Sun, necessarily feel guilt? in the group On Wolfe https://genewolfe.mla.hcommons.org/2021/04/24/do-the-torturers-in-gene-wolfes-new-sun-necessarily-feel-guilt/ Sat, 24 Apr 2021 19:30:15 -0400 At the Gene Wolfe Appreciation site on facebook, David Henkel-Wallace, concerning Wolfe, remarked:

“Is he really making it problematic to judge, or is he saying that it is incumbent upon each of us to look beyond the surface “game” to find out which is morally correct? The willing nazi guard had to know, deep down, that what they were doing was…[Read more]

]]> 4373082183c39d37efeff868d0ebd9be Patrick McEvoy-Halston edited the post Nice Contrast: how the afflictions of the weak and little afford the ostensibly sympathetic narrator, self-repair in the group On Wolfe https://genewolfe.mla.hcommons.org/2021/04/23/nice-contrast-how-the-afflictions-of-the-weak-and-little-afford-the-ostensibly-sympathetic-narrator-as-sweet-contrast/ Sat, 24 Apr 2021 12:02:56 -0400 Metia Macnair’s recent facebook post of her painting of little Severian just before he is eviscerated, at the Gene Wolfe Appreciation site (private, so no link), reminded me of a number of other scenes in Gene Wolfe’s books. I thought of Seawrack, for instance, for she was always intent to find shiny pieces of jewelry in which to return to Mother,…[Read more]

]]> 0f1c1646bbe390f9f0a4f0a788ccebd2 Patrick McEvoy-Halston edited the post In the Kress' interview... in the group On Wolfe https://genewolfe.mla.hcommons.org/2019/07/03/inthekress/ Fri, 23 Apr 2021 09:15:11 -0400 In the Kress’ interview posted by Kissane (link at bottom), Wolfe argues that while the person executed might view his executioner as a “monster,” that the exectioner could view himself as a “hero representative of society, perhaps.”

Wolfe also discusses people’s self-percption in his interview with James McCaffery. He argues:

“And I was…[Read more]

]]> 82adf9df64029182a5d09f386dfa262e Patrick McEvoy-Halston edited the post There are a couple of discussions I've found on the web... in the group On Wolfe https://genewolfe.mla.hcommons.org/2021/04/22/there-are-a-couple-of-discussions-ive-found-on-the-web/ Thu, 22 Apr 2021 15:40:36 -0400 There are a couple of discussions I’ve found on the web, one on Martin Crookall’s webpage and another on a reddit post done by skepticalpanda that discuss amongst other things, the quandary as to why Latro suddenly turns very depressed and suicidal near the end of Soldier of Arete (both discussions are very interesting, btw). In the Reddit…[Read more]

]]> 576666f2fe3218b164ddd91869763a40 Patrick McEvoy-Halston's profile was updated https://mla.hcommons.org/activity/p/1735797/ Thu, 22 Apr 2021 11:12:08 -0400 0 abdd1940ef21a282b17b9ebe6aff9c5f Patrick McEvoy-Halston wrote a new post, Hello world!, on the site On Gene Wolfe: Scholarly musings on Gene Wolfe https://onwolfe.mla.hcommons.org/?p=1 Wed, 14 Apr 2021 16:05:59 -0400 Welcome to MLA Commons. This is your first post. Edit or delete it, then start blogging!fwefwefwefwefwefwefwefwefwefwefwefwefwefwefweffwefwefwefwefwefwefwwwwwwwwefwefwefwefwefwefwefwefwwwww

]]> 489c1a3253992633db81a87c6062d9e9 Patrick McEvoy-Halston created the doc Clouded Visions in the group On Wolfe https://mla.hcommons.org/activity/p/1725642/ Sun, 31 Jan 2021 13:03:36 -0500 0 f662ff76163d3e869fa43f56d989ffde Patrick McEvoy-Halston started the topic Style icon in the discussion John Updike https://mla.hcommons.org/groups/john-updike/forum/topic/style-icon/ Sat, 06 Jul 2019 12:35:07 -0400 John Updike, style icon: https://www.gq.com/gallery/john-updike-style-icon

]]> 0 8caf768c4e13dd800fb3d4ec12be49f5 Patrick McEvoy-Halston started the topic Piers Anthony in the discussion LLC 20th- and 21st-Century American https://mla.hcommons.org/groups/20th-and-21st-century-american/forum/topic/piers-anthony/ Wed, 03 Jul 2019 13:35:43 -0400 New group for studies of Piers Anthony. Exemplar of Winnicottian play in a field of often dark, dour and free movement suppressing (the ogres are going to eat you, not engage in actually-quite-interesting-once-you-get-used-to-them conversations with you). Liberal, Paul Krugman-admiring, vegan, Jimmy Carter-admiring, unappreciated giant of…[Read more]

]]> 0 e8d743f333c93a4809138172c54266e5 Patrick McEvoy-Halston started the topic Gene Wolfe in the discussion LLC 20th- and 21st-Century American https://mla.hcommons.org/groups/20th-and-21st-century-american/forum/topic/gene-wolfe/ Wed, 03 Jul 2019 13:28:24 -0400 New group for studies of Gene Wolfe. Avant-garde. Phenomenological. Psychological/social interactionist. Let’s bring him into the MLA. https://mla.hcommons.org/groups/gene-wolfe/forum/

]]> 0 0a7f97a9b95737c41d8676a92559df79 Patrick McEvoy-Halston created the group Piers Anthony https://mla.hcommons.org/activity/p/1643848/ Wed, 03 Jul 2019 13:04:39 -0400 0 c86c504e0e44b0e0acd4143e3070ee9a Patrick McEvoy-Halston's profile was updated https://mla.hcommons.org/activity/p/1643840/ Wed, 03 Jul 2019 12:43:08 -0400 0 95eecc12e06c9fdc8a31b20dbd4f2b33 Patrick McEvoy-Halston created the group John Updike https://mla.hcommons.org/activity/p/1643839/ Wed, 03 Jul 2019 12:25:47 -0400 0 61d6f5a238894dac4ec80afcc86cd8f1 Patrick McEvoy-Halston created the group On Wolfe https://mla.hcommons.org/activity/p/1643820/ Wed, 03 Jul 2019 11:58:51 -0400 0 f0836bab40abbbb1146784f227903c61 Patrick McEvoy-Halston started the topic My collection of essays on Lord of the Rings in the discussion Tolkien Studies https://hcommons.org/groups/tolkien-studies/forum/topic/my-collection-of-essays-on-lord-of-the-rings/ Mon, 01 Jul 2019 23:53:38 -0400 Just a notice that my collection of essays on Lord of the Rings is already up on the Commons. Overall about the book being more a prompt to not adventure, than a lead to doing so  (and so as I found out, similar to Moorcock’s conception of it): http://dx.doi.org/10.17613/nv66-zq22

]]> 0 47210309cd7478a1b486ba6c46bbf11c Patrick McEvoy-Halston deposited Essays on the Lord of the Rings in the group TC Psychology, Psychoanalysis, and Literature https://mla.hcommons.org/activity/p/1636203/ Mon, 25 Mar 2019 04:03:03 -0400 Full collection of four essays on J.R.R. Tolkien’s “The Lord of the Rings,” comprising “Lord of the Rings: the anti-adventure,” “Reader’s Guide to the Fellowship of the Ring,” “Reader’s Guide to the Two Towers,” and “The (True) Lord of the Ring.” Emphasis throughout is to suggest that it is not just wise but essential to encounter very, very…[Read more]

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