This collection examines how J.R.R. Tolkien delved into the Middle Ages to fashion a critique of the modern world that is postmodern in implication, subversive in nature, and oddly still traditionalist in motivation, in a way that isrelevant to current debate over forging workable cross-cultural coalitions onpressing global problems. INDICE: - 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 theGnomic Tense; J.R.Holmes - The Reanimation of Antiquity and the Resistance toHistory: Macpherson-Scott-Tolkien; J.Hunter - Archaism, Nostalgia, and Tennysonian War in The Lord of the Rings; A.Lynch - Pastoralia and Perfectibility inTolkien 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
- ISBN: 978-0-230-61679-0
- Editorial: Palgrave Macmillan
- Encuadernacion: Rústica
- Páginas: 264
- Fecha Publicación: 14/07/2009
- Nº Volúmenes: 1
- Idioma: Inglés