Online Midwinter Seminar
2022: The Inklings and horror: Fantasy’s dark corners
1st Online Midwinter Seminar
Saturday
5 February 2022 13:00 utc — view in local time
Papers
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№ 2: White shadows, black riders, and restless wights: Undead horror monsters in the fantasy worlds of J.R.R. Tolkien and George R.R. Martin
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№ 3: Coffin births, eclipse babies, and test-tube wombs: Unnatural birth in the world of Andrzej Sapkowski’s Witcher series
Kristine Larsen, Professor, Geological Sciences, Central Connecticut State University
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№ 4: Monstrous feminine, deviant mother: Tolkien’s Shelob and the grotesque maternal
Sara Brown, Chair of Faculty, Signum University
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№ 5: Environmental horror and restoration: Tolkien and today
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№ 6: Tolkien, Cline, and the quest for a Silmaril
Tom Ue; and James Munday
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№ 7: Nature and horror in Tolkien’s legendarium
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№ 8: Like father, like son? Representations of the origins of Merlin in modern fantasy fiction
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№ 9: Tolkien as a folk horror author
Monica Sanz Host:
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№ 10: The overlooked vampire: Might MacDonald’s Lilith be repopularized?
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№ 11: Adoring the head of Alcasan: Posthuman horror and anticipatory corpse in Lewis’s That Hideous Strength
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№ 12: The story, the narrator, and the reader: Mediated horror in C.S. Lewis’s Narniad
William Thompson, Associate Professor of English, MacEwan University
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№ 13: Charles Williams’s P’o-L’u: The Cthulhu connection
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№ 14: “Shivering trees”: Horror and monstrosity in selected stories from Tolkien’s The Silmarillion
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