Tolkien's Modern Middle Ages

Tolkien's Modern Middle Ages
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Publisher : Palgrave Macmillan
Total Pages : 0
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ISBN-10 : 0230616798
ISBN-13 : 9780230616790
Rating : 4/5 (98 Downloads)

Synopsis Tolkien's Modern Middle Ages by : J. Chance

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.

Tolkien the Medievalist

Tolkien the Medievalist
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Publisher : Routledge
Total Pages : 346
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ISBN-10 : 9781134439706
ISBN-13 : 1134439709
Rating : 4/5 (06 Downloads)

Synopsis Tolkien the Medievalist by : Jane Chance

Interdisciplinary in approach, Tolkien the Medievalist provides a fresh perspective on J. R. R. Tolkien's Medievalism. In fifteen essays, eminent scholars and new voices explore how Professor Tolkien responded to a modern age of crisis - historical, academic and personal - by adapting his scholarship on medieval literature to his own personal voice. The four sections reveal the author influenced by his profession, religious faith and important issues of the time; by his relationships with other medievalists; by the medieval sources that he read and taught, and by his own medieval mythologizing.

Medievalism

Medievalism
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Publisher : Yale University Press
Total Pages : 327
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ISBN-10 : 9780300229554
ISBN-13 : 0300229550
Rating : 4/5 (54 Downloads)

Synopsis Medievalism by : Michael Alexander

Now reissued in an updated paperback edition, this groundbreaking account of the Medieval Revival movement examines the ways in which the style of the medieval period was re-established in post-Enlightenment England—from Walpole and Scott, Pugin, Ruskin, and Tennyson to Pound, Tolkien, and Rowling. “Medievalism . . . takes a panoramic view of the ‘recovery’ of the Medieval in English literature, visual arts and culture. . . . Ambitious, sweeping, sometimes idiosyncratic, but always interesting.”—Rosemary Ashton, Times Literary Supplement “Deeply researched and stylishly written, Medievalism is an unalloyed delight that will instruct and amuse a wide readership.”—Edward Short, Books & Culture

Switzerland in Tolkien's Middle-Earth

Switzerland in Tolkien's Middle-Earth
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Publisher : Martin S. Monsch
Total Pages : 298
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ISBN-10 : 9783907323052
ISBN-13 : 390732305X
Rating : 4/5 (52 Downloads)

Synopsis Switzerland in Tolkien's Middle-Earth by : Martin S. Monsch

A journey in search of Middle-earth In 1911, at the age of nineteen, J. R. R. Tolkien embarked on an adventurous journey through the Swiss Alps; with a heavy pack, he hiked over many high passes. More than fifty years later, he mentioned in a letter to his son Michael that this trip had deeply affected him. Bilbo's journey in The Hobbit from Rivendell to the other side of the Misty Mountains, he said, was based on his own adventures in 1911. Tolkien himself named a few specific sources of inspiration, most explicitly the Silberhorn (Silverhorn). So I wondered: Was this perhaps only the tip of the iceberg? Following in Tolkien's footsteps, I myself set out into the spectacular mountain world with its stories, myths, and legends, in search of his sources of inspiration; and little by little, a vivid and mysterious world revealed itself to me: a world that helped shape Middle-earth. More than 100 color images accompany the author's research and discovery journey, along with 11 hiking and 3 road trip suggestions that allow readers to recreate Tolkien's experience with all its impressions themselves in the Swiss mountains. "This book is above all else an invitation to step into Tolkien's hiking shoes, shoulder his pack, and step back a century into a world which is as far from today as Middle-earth is from our world; a guidebook of impressions, a walking tour of the nature of imagination and the imagination of nature." - John Howe

Tolkien and Alterity

Tolkien and Alterity
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Publisher : Springer
Total Pages : 271
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ISBN-10 : 9783319610184
ISBN-13 : 331961018X
Rating : 4/5 (84 Downloads)

Synopsis Tolkien and Alterity by : Christopher Vaccaro

This exciting collection of essays explores the role of the Other in Tolkien’s fiction, his life, and the pertinent criticism. It critically examines issues of gender, sexuality, race and ethnicity, language, and identity in The Lord of the Rings, The Silmarillion, and lesser-known works by Tolkien. The chapters consider characters such as Lobelia Sackville-Baggins, Saruman, Éowyn, and the Orcs as well as discussions of how language and identity function in the source texts. The analysis of Tolkien’s work is set against an examination of his life, personal writing, and beliefs. Each essay takes as its central position the idea that how Tolkien responds to that which is different, to that which is “Other,” serves as a register of his ethics and moral philosophy. In the aggregate, they provide evidence of Tolkien’s acceptance of alterity.

Medieval Wisdom for Modern Christians

Medieval Wisdom for Modern Christians
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Publisher : Brazos Press
Total Pages : 366
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ISBN-10 : 9781493401970
ISBN-13 : 1493401971
Rating : 4/5 (70 Downloads)

Synopsis Medieval Wisdom for Modern Christians by : Chris R. Armstrong

Many Christians today tend to view the story of medieval faith as a cautionary tale. Too often, they dismiss the Middle Ages as a period of corruption and decay in the church. They seem to assume that the church apostatized from true Christianity after it gained cultural influence in the time of Constantine, and the faith was only later recovered by the sixteenth-century Reformers or even the eighteenth-century revivalists. As a result, the riches and wisdom of the medieval period have remained largely inaccessible to modern Protestants. Church historian Chris Armstrong helps readers see beyond modern caricatures of the medieval church to the animating Christian spirit of that age. He believes today's church could learn a number of lessons from medieval faith, such as how the gospel speaks to ordinary, embodied human life in this world. Medieval Wisdom for Modern Christians explores key ideas, figures, and movements from the Middle Ages in conversation with C. S. Lewis and other thinkers, helping contemporary Christians discover authentic faith and renewal in a forgotten age.

Neomedievalism, Popular Culture, and the Academy

Neomedievalism, Popular Culture, and the Academy
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Publisher : Boydell & Brewer
Total Pages : 246
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ISBN-10 : 9781843845416
ISBN-13 : 1843845415
Rating : 4/5 (16 Downloads)

Synopsis Neomedievalism, Popular Culture, and the Academy by : KellyAnn Fitzpatrick

The medieval in the modern world is here explored in a variety of media, from film and book to gaming.

Lord of the Rings

Lord of the Rings
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Publisher : University Press of Kentucky
Total Pages : 184
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ISBN-10 : 9780813138015
ISBN-13 : 0813138019
Rating : 4/5 (15 Downloads)

Synopsis Lord of the Rings by : Jane Chance

" With New Line Cinema's production of The Lord of the Rings film trilogy, the popularity of the works of J.R.R. Tolkien is unparalleled. Tolkien's books continue to be bestsellers decades after their original publication. An epic in league with those of Spenser and Malory, The Lord of the Rings trilogy, begun during Hitler's rise to power, celebrates the insignificant individual as hero in the modern world. Jane Chance's critical appraisal of Tolkien's heroic masterwork is the first to explore its "mythology of power"--that is, how power, politics, and language interact. Chance looks beyond the fantastic, self-contained world of Middle-earth to the twentieth-century parallels presented in the trilogy.

The Gospel According to Tolkien

The Gospel According to Tolkien
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Publisher : Westminster John Knox Press
Total Pages : 198
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ISBN-10 : 0664234666
ISBN-13 : 9780664234669
Rating : 4/5 (66 Downloads)

Synopsis The Gospel According to Tolkien by : Ralph C. Wood

Readers have repeatedly called The Lord of the Rings the most important book of our age--absorbing all 1,500 of its pages with an almost fanatical interest and seeing the Peter Jackson movies in unprecedented numbers. Readers from ages 8 to 80 keep turning to Tolkien because here, in this magical kingdom, they are immersed in depth after depth of significance and meaning--perceiving the Hope that can be found amidst despair, the Charity that overcomes vengeance, and the Faith that springs from the strange power of weakness. The Gospel According to Tolkien examines biblical and Christian themes that are found in the works of J. R. R. Tolkien. Follow Ralph Wood as he takes us through the theological depths of Tolkien's literary legacy.

The Literary Subversions of Medieval Women

The Literary Subversions of Medieval Women
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Publisher : Springer
Total Pages : 225
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ISBN-10 : 9780230605596
ISBN-13 : 0230605591
Rating : 4/5 (96 Downloads)

Synopsis The Literary Subversions of Medieval Women by : Jane Chance

This study of medieval women as postcolonial writers defines the literary strategies of subversion by which they authorized their alterity within the dominant tradition. To dismantle a colonizing culture, they made public the private feminine space allocated by gender difference: they constructed 'unhomely' spaces. They inverted gender roles of characters to valorize the female; they created alternate idealized feminist societies and cultures, or utopias, through fantasy; and they legitimized female triviality the homely female space to provide autonomy. While these methodologies often overlapped in practice, they illustrate how cultures impinge on languages to create what Deleuze and Guattari have identified as a minor literature, specifically for women as dis-placed. Women writers discussed include Hrotsvit of Gandersheim, Hildegard of Bingen, Marie de France, Marguerite Porete, Catherine of Siena, Margery Kempe, Julian of Norwich, and Christine de Pizan.