Tolkien's Modern Middle Ages

2008. Auflage 2009
ISBN: 978-0-230-61679-0
Verlag: Palgrave MacMillan Us

Buch, Englisch, 250 Seiten, Format (B × H): 141 mm x 215 mm, Gewicht: 374 g

Reihe: The New Middle Ages

J.R.R. Tolkien delved into the Middle Ages to create a critique of the modern world in his fantasy, yet did so in a form of modernist literature with postmodern implications and huge commercial success. These essays examine that paradox and its significance in understanding the intersection between traditionalist and counter-culture criticisms of the modern. The approach helps to explain the popularity of his works, the way in which they continue to be brought into dialogue with Twenty-First century issues, and their contested literary significance in the academy.

Zielgruppe

Research

Autoren/Hrsg.

Chance, J.

Siewers, A.

Inhaltsverzeichnis

Preface and Acknowledgments Abbreviations Introduction: Tolkien's Modern Middle Ages?; J.Chance & A.K.Siewers A Postmodern Medievalist; V.Flieger The Medievalist's Fiction; G.Nagy Tolkien, Dustsceawung, and the Gnomic Tense; J.R.Holmes The Reanimation of Antiquity and the Resistance to History: Macpherson-Scott-Tolkien; J.Hunter Archaism, Nostalgia, and Tennysonian War in The Lord of the Rings; A.Lynch Pastoralia and Perfectibility in Tolkien and William Morris; C.N.Scoville English, Welsh, and Elvish; D.Dawson Fantastic Medievalism and the Great War in Tolkien's The Lord of the Rings and David Jones's In Parenthesis; R.Long Tolkien's Cosmic-Christian Ecology; A.K.Siewers Fear of Difference, Fear of Death; B.McFadden Tolkien and the Other; J.Chance Similar but not Similar; T.Nasmith Tolkien in New Zealand: Man, Myth, and Movie; M.N.Stanton Bibliography Contributors Index

Über Autor(innen)

Jane Chance is Andrew W. Mellon Distinguished Professor Emerita of English at Rice University, USA.