Mythic Realms

<p><span style=color: rgba(34 34 34 1)>A sequel of sorts to Bradley Birzer's </span><em style=color: rgba(34 34 34 1)>Beyond Tenebrae </em><span style=color: rgba(34 34 34 1)>(Angelico Press 2019) </span><em style=color: rgba(34 34 34 1)>Mythic Realms</em><span style=color: rgba(34 34 34 1)> seeks to pursue excellences in the last hundred years of literature and film. Still rooted in Christian Humanism and Burke's moral imagination Birzer offers here a series of autobiographical vignettes following which he analyzes fiction from Willa Cather to J.R.R. Tolkien to Stephen King to Frank Miller and considers everything from the novel to the graphic novel. From the world of film he explores the works of John Ford Alfred Hitchcock Roland Joffé and Christopher Nolan while not neglecting popular TV series such as </span><em style=color: rgba(34 34 34 1)>Star Trek</em><span style=color: rgba(34 34 34 1)> </span><em style=color: rgba(34 34 34 1)>X-Files</em><span style=color: rgba(34 34 34 1)> </span><em style=color: rgba(34 34 34 1)>Daredevil</em><span style=color: rgba(34 34 34 1)> and </span><em style=color: rgba(34 34 34 1)>Stranger Things</em><span style=color: rgba(34 34 34 1)>. In the end though after these many thought-provoking investigations Birzer concludes that all things come down to reverence-both mythic and real-for the Blessed Mother and especially for her son Jesus Christ.</span></p>