Tolkien's modern 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...
| Otros Autores: | , |
|---|---|
| Formato: | Libro |
| Idioma: | Inglés |
| Publicado: |
New York :
Palgrave Macmillan
2009.
|
| Colección: | The new Middle Ages
|
| Materias: | |
| Acceso en línea: | Sumario |
| Ver en Universidad de Navarra: | https://unika.unav.edu/discovery/fulldisplay?docid=alma991006588129708016&context=L&vid=34UNAV_INST:VU1&search_scope=34UNAV_TODO&tab=34UNAV_TODO&lang=es |
Tabla de Contenidos:
- Introduction: Tolkien's modern medievalism / Jane Chance, Alfred K. Siewers
- PART ONE: RECONTEXTUALIZING THE MEDIEVAL IN POSTMODERN MIDDLE-EARTH
- A postmodern medievalist? / Verlyn Flieger
- The medievalist('s) fiction: textuality and historicity as aspects of Tolkien's medievalist cultural theory in a postmodernist context / Gergely Nagy
- Tolkien, Dustsceawung, and the gnomic tense: is timelessness medieval or Victorian? / John R. Holmes
- PART TWO: RETREATING TO A TIMELESS PAST: MIDDLE-EARTH AND VICTORIAN MEDIEVALISM
- The reanimation of antiquity and the resistance to history: Macpherson-Scott-Tolkien / John Hunter
- Archaism, nostalgia, and Tennysonian War in The Lord of the Rings / Andrew Lynch
- Pastoralia and perfectability in William Morris and J.R.R. Tolkien / Chester N. Scoville
- English, Welsh, and Elvish: language, loss, and cultural recovery in J.R.R. Tolkien's The Lord of the Rings / Deidre Dawson
- PART THREE: CONFRONTING MODERN IDEOLOGIES IN MIDDLE-EARTH: WAR, ECOLOGY, RACE, AND GENDER
- Fantastic medievalism and the Great War in J.R.R. Tolkien's The Lord of the Rings / Rebekah Long
- Tolkien's cosmic-Christian ecology: the medieval underpinnings / Alfred K. Siewers
- Fear of difference, fear of death: the Sigelwara, Tolkien's Swertings, and racial difference / Brian McFadden
- Tolkien and the other: race and gender in Middle-Earth / Jane Chance
- PART FOUR: VISUALIZING MEDIEVALISM: MIDDLE-EARTH IN ART AND FILM
- Similar but not similar: appropriate anachronism in my paintings of Middle-Earth / Ted Nasmith
- Tolkien in New Zealand: man, myth, and movie / Michael N. Stanton.
