Tolkien the Medievalist
by Chance, Jane
Interdisciplinary in approach, Tolkien the Medievalist provides a fresh perspective on J. R. R. Tolkien's Medievalism. In fifteen essays, eminent scholars and new voices explore how Professor Tolkien responded to a modern age of crisis - historical, academic and personal - by adapting his scholarship on medieval literature to his own personal voice. The four sections reveal the author influenced by his profession, religious faith and important issues of the time; by his relationships with other…
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Interdisciplinary in approach, Tolkien the Medievalist provides a fresh perspective on J. R. R. Tolkien's Medievalism. In fifteen essays, eminent scholars and new voices explore how Professor Tolkien responded to a modern age of crisis - historical, academic and personal - by adapting his scholarship on medieval literature to his own personal voice. The four sections reveal the author influenced by his profession, religious faith and important issues of the time; by his relationships with other medievalists; by the medieval sources that he read and taught, and by his own medieval mythologizing.
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- Publication Date:©2003.
- Edition:1st ed
Publication Statements
- Publisher(s):Taylor and Francis
- Place of Publication:Abingdon, Oxon
- Language:eng
- Publication Date:©2003.
The Physical Object
- Description:1 online resource (305 pages).
Edition Identifiers
- ISBN:9780203218013, 0203218019
- oclc:on1058451516
- LC Classification:PR6039.O32 ǂb Z87 2003eb
- Dewey Decimal:823.912
Table of Contents
Front Cover -- Tolkien the Medievalist -- Copyright Page -- Contents -- Notes on contributors -- Acknowledgments -- List of abbreviations -- 1. Introduction -- Part I: J. R. R. Tolkien as a medieval scholar: modern contexts -- 2. "An industrious little devil": E. V. Gordon as friend and collaborator with Tolkien -- 3. "There would always be a fairy-tale": J. R. R. Tolkien and the folklore controversy -- 4. A Kind of mid-wife: J. R. R. Tolkien and C. S. Lewis -- sharing influence -- 5. "I wish to speak": Tolkien's voice in his Beowulf essay -- 6. 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. Tolkien's Wild Men: from medieval to modern -- 8. The valkyrie reflex in J. R. R. Tolkien's The Lord of the Rings: Galadriel, Shelob, Eowyn, and Arwen -- 9. Exilic imagining in The Seafarer and The Lord of the Rings -- 10. "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.…
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