Introduction: re-imagining Wales / Audrey Becker and Kristin Noone Celtic Studies and Modern Fantasy / C.W. Sullivan III "The Rough, Savage Strength of Earth": Evangeline Walton's Human Heroes and Mythic Spaces / Kristin Noone Branwen's Shame: Voicing the Silent Feminine in Evangeline Walton's The Children of Llyr / Nicole A. Thomas Disavowing Maternity in Evangeline Walton's The Virgin and the Swine: Fantasy Meets the Social Protest Fiction of the 1930s / Deborah Hooker "An Age-Old Memory": Arthur Machen's Celtic Redaction of the Welsh Revival in The Great Return / Geoffrey Reiter Magical Goods, "Orphaned" Exchanges, Punishment, and Power in the Fourth Branch of the Mabinogi / Susana Brower The Hand at the Window: Twm Sin Cati, the Welsh Colonial trickster / Jonathan Evans and Stephen Knight An Irregular Union: Exploring the Welsh Connection to a Popular African-American Wedding Ritual / Tyler D. Parry Constructing Myth in Music: Heather Dale, King Arthur, and "Culhwch and Olwen" / Megan MacAlystre Torchwood's "Spooky-Do's": A Popular Culture Perspective on Celtic Mythology / Lynnette R. Porter Everyday Magic: Howl's Moving Castle and Fantasy as Sociopolitical Commentary / Carolynn E. Wilcox Loosely Based: The Problems of Adaptation in Disney's The Black Cauldron / Jeff Hicks We're Not in Cymru Anymore: What Is Really Happening in the Online Mabinogi / Clay Kinchen Smith Temporality, Teleology, and the Mabinogi in the Twenty-First Century / Audrey Becker. |