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1 online resource (xiv, 295 pages). |
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polychrome |
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text file |
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Routledge studies in medieval religion and culture ; 3
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Routledge studies in medieval religion and culture ; 3.
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Includes bibliographical references (pages 268-284) and index. |
| 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. 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. "Music of the spheres" : relationships between Tolkien's The Silmarillion and medieval cosmological and religious theory / Bradford Lee Eden -- 13. 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. 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. |
| Summary |
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. |
| Local Note |
eBooks on EBSCOhost EBSCO eBook Subscription Academic Collection - North America |
| Subject |
Tolkien, J. R. R. (John Ronald Reuel), 1892-1973 -- Knowledge and learning.
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Tolkien, J. R. R. (John Ronald Reuel), 1892-1973. |
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Tolkien, J. R. R. (John Ronald Reuel), 1892-1973 -- Knowledge -- Middle Ages. |
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Tolkien, J. R. R. (John Ronald Reuel), 1892-1973 -- Criticism and interpretation. |
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Tolkien, J. R. R. (John Ronald Reuel), 1892-1973 -- Savoir et érudition. |
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Medievalism -- England -- History -- 20th century.
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Medievalism. |
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England. |
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History. |
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20th century |
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Fantasy fiction, English -- Medieval influences.
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Fantasy fiction, English. |
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Fantasy fiction, English.
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Literature, Medieval -- Appreciation -- England.
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Literature, Medieval -- Appreciation. |
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Middle Earth (Imaginary place)
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Middle Earth (Imaginary place) |
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Medievalism in literature.
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Medievalism in literature. |
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Middle Ages in literature.
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Middle Ages in literature. |
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Mythology in literature.
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Mythology in literature. |
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1900 - 1999 |
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Electronic books.
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Criticism, interpretation, etc.
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History.
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| Added Author |
Chance, Jane, 1945-
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| Other Form: |
Print version: Tolkien the medievalist. London ; New York : Routledge, 2003 0415289440 (DLC) 2002068031 (OCoLC)50022924 |
| ISBN |
0203218019 (electronic book) |
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9780203218013 (electronic book) |
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0203273621 (electronic book ; Adobe Reader) |
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9780203273623 (electronic book ; Adobe Reader) |
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0415289440 (Cloth) |
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9780415473484 |
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0415473489 |
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