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9780415473484

Tolkien the Medievalist

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  • ISBN13:

    9780415473484

  • ISBN10:

    0415473489

  • Edition: 1st
  • Format: Nonspecific Binding
  • Copyright: 2008-08-29
  • Publisher: Routledge

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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.

Table of Contents

Jane Chance Introduction
J . R. R. Tolkien as a Medieval Scholar: Modern Contexts
'An Industrious Little Devil': E. V. Gordon as Friend and Collaborator with Tolkien
'There Would Always Be a Fairy-Tale': J. R. R. Tolkien and the Folklore Controversy
A Kind of Mid-Wife: J. R. R. Tolkien and C. S. Lewis - Sharing Influence
'I Wish to Speak': Tolkien's Voice in His Beowulf Essay
Middle-Earth, the Middle Ages, and the Aryan Nation: Myth and History in World War II
J . R. R. Tolkien's Lord of the Rings and Medieval Literary and Mythological Texts/Contexts
Tolkien's Wild Men: From Medieval to Modern
The Valkyrie Reflex in J. R. R. Tokien's The Lord of the Rings : Galadriel, Shelob. Eowyn, and Arwen
Exilic Imagining in The Seafarer and The Lord of the Rings
'Oathbreakers, Why Have Ye Come?': Tolkien's 'Passing of the Grey Company' and the Twelfth-Century Exercitus Mortuorum
J. R. R. Tolkien: The Texts/Contexts of Medieval Patristics, Theology, and Iconography
Augustine in the Cottage of Lost Play: The Ainulindaleuml; as Asterisk Cosmogony
Music of the Spheres: Relationships between Tolkien's Silmarillion and Medieval Cosmological and Religious Theory
The Anthropology of Arda: Creation, Theology, and the Race of Men
S. J. A Land without Stain: Medieval Images of Mary and Their Use in the Characterization of Galadriel
J . R. R. Tolkien's Silmarillion Mythology: Medievalized Retextualization and Theory
The Great Chain of Reading: (Inter-) Textual Relations and the Technique of Mythopoesis in the Turin Story
Real World Myth in a Secondary World: Mythological Aspects in the Story of Beren and Luthien
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