J.R.R. Tolkien in Central Europe

Janka Kascakova is Associate Professor in English at the Catholic University of Ružomberok, Slovakia and Palacký University Olomouc, the Czech Republic. Her research centers on modernism and the modernist short story, especially the works of Katherine Mansfield, and fantasy literature, chiefly the works of J.R.R. Tolkien. David Levente Palatinus is Associate Professor in Media and Cultural Studies at the Catholic University in Ružomberok and the Technical University of Liberec.He recently co-edited Gothic Metamorphoses across the Centuries (2020). His book Human/Non/Human: Technics and Subjectivity across Media is forthcoming in 2023.

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 Dědinová




J.R.R. Tolkien in the Slovak Press: Situation After 1990


Jozefa Pevčíková

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

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