Tolkien's modern Middle Ages
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Tolkien's modern Middle Ages
（The new Middle Ages）
Palgrave Macmillan, 2009, c2005
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Includes bibliographical references (p. [213]-227) and index
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Description
J.R.R. Tolkien delved into the Middle Ages to create a critique of the modern world in his fantasy, yet did so in a form of modernist literature with postmodern implications and huge commercial success. These essays examine that paradox and its significance in understanding the intersection between traditionalist and counter-culture criticisms of the modern. The approach helps to explain the popularity of his works, the way in which they continue to be brought into dialogue with Twenty-First century issues, and their contested literary significance in the academy.
Table of Contents
- Preface and Acknowledgments Abbreviations Introduction: Tolkien's Modern Middle Ages?
- J.Chance & A.K.Siewers A Postmodern Medievalist
- V.Flieger The Medievalist's Fiction
- G.Nagy Tolkien, Dustsceawung, and the Gnomic Tense
- J.R.Holmes The Reanimation of Antiquity and the Resistance to History: Macpherson-Scott-Tolkien
- J.Hunter Archaism, Nostalgia, and Tennysonian War in The Lord of the Rings
- A.Lynch Pastoralia and Perfectibility in Tolkien and William Morris
- C.N.Scoville English, Welsh, and Elvish
- D.Dawson Fantastic Medievalism and the Great War in Tolkien's The Lord of the Rings and David Jones's In Parenthesis
- R.Long Tolkien's Cosmic-Christian Ecology
- A.K.Siewers Fear of Difference, Fear of Death
- B.McFadden Tolkien and the Other
- J.Chance Similar but not Similar
- T.Nasmith Tolkien in New Zealand: Man, Myth, and Movie
- M.N.Stanton Bibliography Contributors Index
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