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Title:

Tolkien's modern Middle Ages / edited by Jane Chance and Alfred K. Siewers.

Edition:

1st ed.

Publisher:

Palgrave Macmillan,

Copyright Date:

2005

Description:

xiv, 250 p. : ill. ; 22 cm.

Subject:

Tolkien, J. R. R.--(John Ronald Reuel),--1892-1973--Criticism and interpretation.
Tolkien, J. R. R.--(John Ronald Reuel),--1892-1973--History.--History.
Literature and history--England--History--20th century.
Fantasy fiction, English--History and criticism.
Medievalism--England--History--20th century.
Postmodernism (Literature)--England.
Middle Earth (Imaginary place)
Middle Ages in literature.
History in literature.
Tolkien, J. R. R.--(John Ronald Reuel),--1892-1973--Critique et interprétation.
Tolkien, J. R. R.--(John Ronald Reuel),--1892-1973--Et l'histoire.
Littérature et histoire--Angleterre--Histoire--20e siècle.
Roman fantastique anglais--Histoire et critique.
Médiévisme--Angleterre--Histoire--20e siècle.
Postmodernisme (Littérature)--Angleterre.
Terre du Milieu (Lieu imaginaire)
Moyen Âge dans la littérature.
Histoire dans la littérature.

Other Authors:

Chance, Jane, 1945-
Siewers, Alfred K. (Alfred Kentigern)

Notes:

Includes bibliographical references (p. [213]-227) and index.

Contents:

PART FOUR: VISUALIZING MEDIEVALISM: MIDDLE-EARTH IN ART AND FILM -- Tolkien in New Zealand: man, myth, and movie / Michael N. Stanton. PART ONE: RECONTEXTUALIZING THE MEDIEVAL IN POSTMODERN MIDDLE-EARTH -- A postmodern medievalist? / Verlyn Flieger -- The medievalist('s) fiction: textuality and historicity as aspects of Tolkien's medievalist cultural theory in a postmodernist context / Gergely Nagy -- Tolkien, Dustsceawung, and the gnomic tense: is timelessness medieval or Victorian? / John R. Holmes -- PART TWO: RETREATING TO A TIMELESS PAST: MIDDLE-EARTH AND VICTORIAN MEDIEVALISM -- The reanimation of antiquity and the resistance to history: Macpherson-Scott-Tolkien / John Hunter -- Archaism, nostalgia, and Tennysonian War in The Lord of the Rings / Andrew Lynch -- Pastoralia and perfectability in William Morris and J.R.R. Tolkien / Chester N. Scoville -- English, Welsh, and Elvish: language, loss, and cultural recovery in J.R.R. Tolkien's The Lord of the Rings / Deidre Dawson -- PART THREE: CONFRONTING MODERN IDEOLOGIES IN MIDDLE-EARTH: WAR, ECOLOGY, RACE, AND GENDER -- Fantastic medievalism and the Great War in J.R.R. Tolkien's The Lord of the Rings / Rebekah Long -- Tolkien's cosmic-Christian ecology: the medieval underpinnings / Alfred K. Siewers -- Fear of difference, fear of death: the Sigelwara, Tolkien's Swertings, and racial difference / Brian McFadden -- Tolkien and the other: race and gender in Middle-Earth / Jane Chance -- PART FOUR: VISUALIZING MEDIEVALISM: MIDDLE-EARTH IN ART AND FILM -- Similar but not similar: appropriate anachronism in my paintings of Middle-Earth / Ted Nasmith -- Tolkien in New Zealand: man, myth, and movie / Michael N. Stanton.

Series:

The new Middle Ages

ISBN:

9781403969736 (alk. paper)
1403969736 (alk. paper)

LCCN:

2005051027

Locations:

PLAX964 -- Luther College - Preus Library (Decorah)

OAAX516 -- Maharishi University of Management Library (Fairfield)

OVUX522 -- University of Iowa Libraries (Iowa City)