Alex Jantz

My Substack

What’s a “Eucatastrophe”?

• (n.) “Esp. in a fictional narrative: a (sudden or unexpected) favourable turn of events; esp. a resolution of this type; a happy ending.”
  —Oxford English Dictionary
• “For it I coined the word ‘eucatastrophe’: the sudden happy turn in a story which pierces you with a joy that brings tears.”
  —J.R.R. Tolkien, Letter 7–8 November (1995) 100
• “The Resurrection is the eucatastrophe of the story of the Incarnation.”
  —J.R.R. Tolkien in C.S. Lewis, Ess. presented to C. Williams ii. 83

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Scholarship

“Literary Speculative Writing: A Case Study in Independent Publishers.” Presentation at the International Conference for the Fantastic in the Arts, Orlando, FL, 2024.

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Works In Progress

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Short Stories