Tolkien the Medievalist
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| Tolkien the Medievalist | |
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| Author | Jane Chance (ed.) |
| Publisher | Routledge |
| Released | 2002 |
| Format | Hardcover |
| Pages | 304 |
| ISBN | 0415289440 |
Tolkien the Medievalist is a collection of essays edited by Jane Chance.
From the Publisher
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.
Contents
- 1. Jane Chance: "Introduction"
PART I: J.R.R. Tolkien as a medieval scholar: modern contexts
- 2. Douglas A. Anderson: "'An industrious little devil': E.V. Gordon as friend and collaborator with Tolkien"
- 3. Verlyn Flieger: "'There would always be a fairy-tale': J.R.R. Tolkien and the folklore controversy"
- 4. Andrew Lazo: "A kind of mid-wife: J. R. R. Tolkien and C. S. Lewis - sharing influence"
- 5. Mary Falaci: "'I wish to speak": Tolkien's voice in his Beowulf essay"
- 6. Christine Chism: "Middle-earth, the Middle Ages, and the Aryan nation: myth and history in World War II"
PART II: J.R.R. Tolkien's The Lord of the Rings and medieval literary and mythological texts/contexts
- 7. Verlyn Flieger: "Tolkien's Wild Men: from medieval to modern"
- 8. Leslie A. Donovan: "The valkyrie reflex in J.R.R. Tolkien's The Lord of the Rings: Galadriel, Shelob, Éowyn, and Arwen"
- 9. Miranda Wilcox: "Exilic imagining in The Seafarer and The Lord of the Rings"
- 10. Margaret A. Sinex: "'Oathbreakers, why have ye come?': Tolkien's Passing of the Grey Company and the twelfth-century Exercitus mortuorum
PART III: J.R.R. Tolkien: The texts/contexts of medieval patristics, theology, and iconography
- 11. John William Houghton: "Augustine in the cottage of lost play: the Ainulindalë as asterisk cosmogony"
- 12. Bradford Lee Eden: "The 'music of the spheres': relationships between Tolkien's The Silmarillion and medieval cosmological and religious theory"
- 13. Jonathan Evans: "The anthropology of Arda: creation, theology, and the race of Men"
- 14. Michael W. Maher: "'A land without stain': medieval images of Mary and their use in the characterization of Galadriel"
PART IV: J.R.R. Tolkien's Silmarillion mythology: medievalized retextualization and theory
- 15. Gergely Nagy: "The great chain of reading: (inter-)textual relations and the technique of mythopoesis in the Túrin story"
- 16. Richard C. West: "Real-world myth in a secondary world: mythological aspects in the story of Beren and Lúthien"
