Buch, Englisch, 198 Seiten, Format (B × H): 152 mm x 229 mm, Gewicht: 298 g
Context, Directions, and the Legacy
Buch, Englisch, 198 Seiten, Format (B × H): 152 mm x 229 mm, Gewicht: 298 g
Reihe: Routledge Studies in Speculative Fiction
ISBN: 978-1-032-52558-7
Verlag: Routledge
This volume is a long overdue contribution to the dynamic, but unevenly distributed study of fantasy and J.R.R. Tolkien’s legacy in Central Europe. The chapters move between and across theories of cultural and social history, reception, adaptation, and audience studies, and offer methodological reflections on the various cultural perceptions of Tolkien’s oeuvre and its impact on twenty-first century manifestations. They analyse how discourses about fantasy are produced and mediated, and how processes of re-mediation shape our understanding of the historical coordinates and local peculiarities of fantasy in general, and Tolkien in particular, all that in Central Europe in an age of global fandom. The collection examines the entanglement of fantasy and Central European political and cultural shifts across the past 50 years and traces the ways in which its haunting legacy permeates and subverts different modes and aesthetics across different domains from communist times through today’s media-saturated culture.
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Weitere Infos & Material
List of contributors
Acknowledgements
Introduction
David Levente Palatinus
Janka Kascakova
PART I: RECEPTION AND TRANSLATIONS OF TOLKIEN IN HUNGARY
- Reading Tolkien in Hungary, Part I: the 20th Century
Gergely Nagy
- Reading Tolkien in Hungary, Part II: the 21st Century
Gergely Nagy
PART II: RECEPTION AND TRANSLATIONS OF TOLKIEN IN CZECHOSLOVAKIA AND ITS SUCCEEDING COUNTRIES
- Mythologia Non Grata: Tolkien and Socialist Czechoslovakia
Janka Kascakova
- "Through darkness you have come to your hope": The Dynamics of J.R.R. Tolkien’s Work Reception in the Czech Context
Tereza Dedinová
- J.R.R. Tolkien in the Slovak Press: Situation After 1990
Jozefa Pevcíková
Eva Urbanová
Translated by Jela Kehoe
- Unknotting the Translation Knots in The Hobbit: A Diachronic Analysis of Slovak Translations from 1973 and 2002
Jela Kehoe
PART III: STUDYING FANTASY AFTER TOLKIEN: LEGACIES AND CONTEMPORARY PERSPECTIVES
- Growing Up in Fantasy: Inspecting the Convergences of Young Adult Literature and Fantastic Fiction
Martina Vránová
- One Does Not Simply Teach Fantasy: How Students of English and American Studies in Hungary View the Genre and Tolkien’s Legacy
Nikolett Sipos
- From Niche to Mainstream? Screen Culture’s Impact on Contemporary Perceptions of Fantasy
David Levente Palatinus
Index