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Reading Rowling as Myth Maker and Myth Re-Writer: A Conversation with Dr Dimitra Fimi
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Summary
Dimitra Fimi is Professor of Fantasy and Children’s Literature at the University of Glasgow and Co-Director of the Centre for Fantasy and the Fantastic . Her Tolkien, Race and Cultural History won the Mythopoeic Scholarship Award for Inklings Studies and she co-edited the critical edition of A Secret Vice: Tolkien on Invented Languages which won the Tolkien Society Award for Best Book. Her Celtic Myth in Contemporary Children’s Fantasy won the Mythopoeic Scholarship Award in Myth and Fantasy Studies. Other work includes co-editing Sub-creating Arda: World-building in J.R.R. Tolkien’s Work, its Precursors and its Legacies and Imagining the Celtic Past in Modern Fantasy . She has contributed articles for the TLS and The Conversation , and has appeared on numerous radio and TV programs. When the rightly famous and beloved ‘The Great Courses’ series decided to offer a Lord of the Rings entry for their catalog of the very best in scholarship for adult-learners, they asked Dimitra Fimi to create ‘ The World of J. R. R. Tolkien, ’ one of their most popular courses and one you can enjoy in an Audible edition. Links Promised in Conversation: A Kind of Elvish Craft: The Dimitra Fimi Substack Site * Miniature Books in Children’s Fantasy * Parabasis: A Tribute to Dionysis Stavvopoulos * On Tolkien’s Letter 131 (4): “Romance” vs. Science Dimitra Fimi articles at ‘The Conversation’ * After 150 years, we still haven’t solved the puzzle of Alice in Wonderland ( 2015) Kanreki Conversations about Rowling-Galbraith ‘Golden Threads’ * Pregnancy Traps in the Works of Rowling-Galbraith * Golden Threads in Rowling-Galbraith (1) * Golden Threads in Rowling-Galbraith (2) * ‘The Lost Child’ Golden Thread * Alternative Explanations of ‘The Lost Child’ Golden Thread * The Induced Abortion Hypothe…