| Edition |
1st ed. |
| Description |
xiv, 250 pages : illustrations ; 22 cm. |
| Series |
The new Middle Ages
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New Middle Ages (Palgrave Macmillan (Firm))
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| Bibliography |
Includes bibliographical references (pages 213-227) and index. |
| Contents |
Introduction: Tolkien's modern medievalism / Jane Chance, Alfred K. Siewers -- PART ONE: RECONTEXTUALIZING THE MEDIEVAL IN POSTMODERN MIDDLE-EARTH -- A postmodern medievalist? / Verlyn Flieger -- Medievalist('s) fiction: textuality and historicity as aspects of Tolkien's medievalist cultural theory in a postmodernist context / Gergely Nagy -- Tolkien, Dustsceawung, and the gnomic tense: is timelessness medieval or Victorian? / John R. Holmes -- PART TWO: RETREATING TO A TIMELESS PAST: MIDDLE-EARTH AND VICTORIAN MEDIEVALISM -- Reanimation of antiquity and the resistance to history: Macpherson-Scott-Tolkien / John Hunter -- Archaism, nostalgia, and Tennysonian War in The Lord of the Rings / Andrew Lynch -- Pastoralia and perfectability in William Morris and J.R.R. Tolkien / Chester N. Scoville -- English, Welsh, and Elvish: language, loss, and cultural recovery in J.R.R. Tolkien's The Lord of the Rings / Deidre Dawson -- PART THREE: CONFRONTING MODERN IDEOLOGIES IN MIDDLE-EARTH: WAR, ECOLOGY, RACE, AND GENDER -- Fantastic medievalism and the Great War in J.R.R. Tolkien's The Lord of the Rings / Rebekah Long -- Tolkien's cosmic-Christian ecology: the medieval underpinnings / Alfred K. Siewers -- Fear of difference, fear of death: the Sigelwara, Tolkien's Swertings, and racial difference / Brian McFadden -- Tolkien and the other: race and gender in Middle-Earth / Jane Chance -- PART FOUR: VISUALIZING MEDIEVALISM: MIDDLE-EARTH IN ART AND FILM -- Similar but not similar: appropriate anachronism in my paintings of Middle-Earth / Ted Nasmith -- Tolkien in New Zealand: man, myth, and movie / Michael N. Stanton. |
| Subject |
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. |
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Criticism and interpretation. |
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Tolkien, J. R. R. (John Ronald Reuel), 1892-1973 -- Knowledge and learning -- History.
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History. |
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Literature and history -- England -- History -- 20th century.
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Literature and history. |
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England. |
| Chronological Term |
20th century |
| Subject |
Fantasy fiction, English -- History and criticism.
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Fantasy fiction, English. |
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Medievalism -- England -- History -- 20th century.
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Medievalism. |
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Postmodernism (Literature) -- England.
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Postmodernism (Literature) |
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Middle Earth (Imaginary place)
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Middle Earth (Imaginary place) |
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Middle Ages in literature.
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Middle Ages in literature. |
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History in literature.
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History in literature. |
| Added Author |
Siewers, Alfred K. (Alfred Kentigern)
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| ISBN |
1403969736 alkaline paper |
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