Mythopoeic Scholarship Award (General Myth and Fantasy Studies)

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The Mythopoeic Scholarship Award in Myth and Fantasy Studies is given to scholarly books on other specific authors in the Inklings tradition, or to more general works on the genres of myth and fantasy. The period of eligibility is three years, as for the Inklings Studies award.

2011 

The Victorian Press and the Fairy Tale by Caroline Sumpter

2010

One Earth, One People: The Mythopoeic Fantasy Series of Ursula K. Le Guin, Lloyd Alexander, Madeleine L’Engle and Orson Scott Card by Marek Oziewicz

2009

Four British Fantasists by Charles Butler

2008

T.A. Shippey, editor, The Shadow-Walkers: Jacob Grimm’s Mythology of the Monstrous

2007

Gemstone of Paradise: The Holy Grail in Wolfram’s Parzival by G. Ronald Murphy, S.J.

2006

National Dreams: The Remaking of Fairy Tales in Nineteenth-Century England by Jennifer Schacker

2005

Robin Hood: A Mythic Biography by Stephen Thomas Knight

2004

The Myth of the American Superhero by John Shelton Lawrence and Robert Jewett

2003

Fairytale in the Ancient World by Graham Anderson

2002

The Owl, the Raven & the Dove: The Religious Meaning of the Grimms’ Magic Fairy Tales by G. Ronald Murphy

2001

King Arthur in America by Alan Lupack and Barbara Tepa Lupack

2000

Strange and Secret Peoples: Fairies and Victorian Consciousness by Carole G. Silver

1999

A Century of Welsh Myth in Children’s Literature by Donna R. White

1998

The Encyclopedia of Fantasy edited by John Clute and John Grant

1997

When Toys Come Alive by Lois Rostrow Kuznets

1996

From the Beast to the Blonde by Marina Warner

1995

Old Tales and New Truths: Charting the Bright-Shadow World by James Roy King

1994

Twentieth-Century Fantasists edited by Kath Filmer

1993

Strategies of Fantasy by Brian Attebery

1992

The Victorian Fantasists edited by Kath Filmer