Tolkien the medievalist

Tolkien the medievalist /

Interdisciplinary in approach, this book provides a fresh perspective on J.R.R. Tolkien's medievalism. Fifteen essays explore how professor Tolkien responded to a modern age of crisis - historical, academic and personal.

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Online Access: Full text (MCPHS users only)
Other Authors: Chance, Jane, 1945-
Format: Electronic eBook
Language:English
Published: London ; New York : Routledge, 2003
Series:Routledge studies in medieval religion and culture ; 3.
Subjects:
Tolkien, J. R. R. > (John Ronald Reuel), > 1892-1973 > Knowledge and learning.
Medievalism > England > History > 20th century.
Fantasy fiction, English > Medieval influences.
Literature, Medieval > Appreciation > England.
Middle Earth (Imaginary place)
Medievalism in literature.
Middle Ages in literature.
Mythology in literature.
Fantasy fiction, English > History and criticism.
Electronic books.
Local Note:ProQuest Ebook Central
Table of Contents:
  • 1. Introduction / Jane Chance
  • pt. 1. J.R.R. Tolkien as a medieval scholar : modern contexts. 2. "An industrious little devil" : E.V. Gordon as friend and collaborator with Tolkien / Douglas A. Anderson
  • 3. "There would always be a fairy-tale" : J.R.R. Tolkien and the folklore controversy / Verlyn Flieger
  • 4. A kind of mid-wife : J.R.R. Tolkien and C.S. Lewis--sharing influence / Andrew Lazo
  • 5. "I wish to speak" : Tolkien's voice in his Beowulf essay / Mary Faraci
  • 6. Middle-earth, the Middle Ages, and the Aryan nation : myth and history in World War II / Christine Chism
  • pt. 2. J.R.R. Tolkien's The Lord of the rings and medieval literary and mythological texts/contexts. 7. Tolkien's Wild Men : from medieval to modern / Verlyn Flieger
  • 8. The valkyrie reflex in J.R.R. Tolkien's The Lord of the rings : Galadriel, Shelob, ʹEowyn, and Arwen / Leslie A. Donovan
  • 9. Exilic imagining in The Seafarer and The Lord of the rings / Miranda Wilcox
  • 10. "Oathbreakers, why have ye come?" : Tolkien's "Passing of the Grey Company" and the twelfth-century Exercitus mortuorum / Margaret A. Sinex
  • pt. 3. J.R.R. Tolkien : the texts/contexts of medieval patristics, theology, and iconography. 11. Augustine in the cottage of lost play : the Ainulindalë as asterisk cosmogony / John William Houghton
  • 12. The "music of the spheres" : relationships between Tolkien's The Silmarillion and medieval cosmological and religious theory / Bradford Lee Eden
  • 13. The anthropology of Arda : creation, theology, and the race of Men / Jonathan Evans
  • 14. "A land without stain" : medieval images of Mary and their use in the characterization of Galadriel / Michael W. Maher
  • pt. 4. J.R.R. Tolkien's Silmarillion mythology : medievalized retextualization and theory. 15. The great chain of reading : (inter- )textual relations and the technique of mythopoesis in the Tʹurin story / Gergely Nagy
  • 16. Real-world myth in a secondary world : mythological aspects in the story of Beren and Lʹuthien / Richard C. West.

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