Tolkien's Intellectual Landscape
McFarland & Co Inc (Verlag)
978-0-7864-9865-9 (ISBN)
Imaginative literature continues to grow even as publishers cut back on creative fiction: recently it has moved energetically into film, gaming, and, and online fan fiction, but in the twentieth century it bridged the gap between “leaned” and “popular” spheres of interest and readerships.
Tolkien's living landscape continues to please, instruct, and inspire, drawing new generations of audiences to Middle-earth for the pleasure of adventure and to grapple with the upheavals of his time and their aftermath.
E.L. Risden is a professor of English at St. Norbert College in De Pere, Wisconsin, USA. He has published books and essays on medieval and Renaissance studies as well as poetry and fiction.
Table of Contents
Introduction. The “Author of the Century” in His Century: Extending the Intellectual Landscape
1. Tolkien as Scholar, Narrator, Stylist
2. Heart of Darkness, Heart of Light: Externalizing the Internalized Quest
3. The World of the Text and the Expanding Waste Land
4. Tolkien on Heroism: Beorhtnoth, Aragorn, and Arthur
5. Epic, Faërie, and Myth: The Mortal and the Monstrous Body
6. Tolkien and Myth: Orientalism and Occidentalism
7. Good and Evil, Choice and Control
8. Teaching Tolkien and His World, and Why He Matters
Afterword. Mechanized Landscape and Spiritual Landscape—In Retrospect
Chapter Notes
Bibliography
Index
Verlagsort | Jefferson, NC |
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Sprache | englisch |
Maße | 152 x 229 mm |
Themenwelt | Geisteswissenschaften ► Sprach- / Literaturwissenschaft ► Anglistik / Amerikanistik |
Geisteswissenschaften ► Sprach- / Literaturwissenschaft ► Literaturwissenschaft | |
ISBN-10 | 0-7864-9865-X / 078649865X |
ISBN-13 | 978-0-7864-9865-9 / 9780786498659 |
Zustand | Neuware |
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