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Author:

Chance, Jane, 1945- author.

Title:

Tolkien, self and other : "this queer creature" / Jane Chance.

Publisher:

Palgrave Macmillan

Copyright Date:

2016

Description:

xxxii, 290 pages ; 22 cm.

Subject:

Tolkien, J. R. R.--(John Ronald Reuel),--1892-1973--Criticism and interpretation.
Self-consciousness (Awareness) in literature.

Notes:

Includes bibliographical references (pages 249-265) and index.

Contents:

Introduction : "This Queer Creature" -- Forlorn and abject : Tolkien and his earliest writing (1914-1924) -- Bilbo as Sigurd in the fairy-story Hobbit (1920-1927) -- Tolkien's fairy-story Beowulfs (1926-1940s) -- "Queer endings" after Beowulf : The fall of Arthur (1931-1934) -- Apartheid in Tolkien : Chaucer and The Lord of the Rings, Books 1-3 (1925-1943) -- "Usually slighted: Gudrun, other medieval women, and The Lord of the Rings, Book 3 (1925-1943) -- The failure of masculinity : The Homecoming of Beorhtnoth(1920), Sir Gawain (1925), and The Lord of the Rings, Books 3-6 (1943-1948) -- Conclusion : the ennoblement of the humble : The History of Middle-earth.

Series:

New Middle Ages

ISBN:

1137398957
9781137398956

OCLC:

(OCoLC)950954344

LCCN:

2016950220

Locations:

USUX851 -- Iowa State University - Parks Library (Ames)

OVUX522 -- University of Iowa Libraries (Iowa City)