J R R Tolkien In Central Europe

Author : Janka Kascakova,David Levente Palatinus
Publisher : Taylor & Francis
Page : 190 pages
File Size : 41,7 Mb
Release : 2023-09-29
Category : Literary Criticism
ISBN : 9781000958195

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J.R.R. Tolkien in Central Europe by Janka Kascakova,David Levente Palatinus Pdf

This volume is a long overdue contribution to the dynamic, but unevenly distributed study of fantasy and J.R.R. Tolkien’s legacy in Central Europe. The chapters move between and across theories of cultural and social history, reception, adaptation, and audience studies, and offer methodological reflections on the various cultural perceptions of Tolkien’s oeuvre and its impact on twenty-first century manifestations. They analyse how discourses about fantasy are produced and mediated, and how processes of re-mediation shape our understanding of the historical coordinates and local peculiarities of fantasy in general, and Tolkien in particular, all that in Central Europe in an age of global fandom. The collection examines the entanglement of fantasy and Central European political and cultural shifts across the past 50 years and traces the ways in which its haunting legacy permeates and subverts different modes and aesthetics across different domains from communist times through today’s media-saturated culture.

Author : Josef J. Schmied,Christoph Haase,Katrin Voigt
Publisher : Cuvillier Verlag
Page : 159 pages
File Size : 49,8 Mb
Release : 2005
Category : English language
ISBN : 9783865374202

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English for Central Europe - Interdisciplinary Saxon-Czech Perspectives by Josef J. Schmied,Christoph Haase,Katrin Voigt Pdf

Author : Bradley J. Birzer
Publisher : Simon and Schuster
Page : 252 pages
File Size : 49,5 Mb
Release : 2023-08-29
Category : Literary Criticism
ISBN : 9781684516247

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J.R.R. Tolkien's Sanctifying Myth by Bradley J. Birzer Pdf

With a new introduction by the author Peter Jackson's film version of J.R.R. Tolkien's Lord of the Rings trilogy - and the accompanying Rings-related paraphernalia and publicity - has played a unique role in the disemmination of Tolkien's imaginative creation to the masses. Yet, for most readers and viewers, the underlying meaning of Middle-earth has remained obscure. Bradley Birzer has remedied that with this fresh study. In J.R.R. Tolkien's Sanctifying Myth: Understanding Middle-earth, Birzer reveals the surprisingly specific religious symbolism that permeates Tolkien's Middle-earth legendarium. He also explores the social and political views that motivated the Oxford don, ultimately situating Tolkien within the Christian humanist tradition represented by Thomas More and T.S. Eliot, Dante and C.S. Lewis. Birzer argues that through the genre of myth Tolkien created a world that is essentially truer than the one we think we see around us everyday, a world that transcends the colorless disenchantment of our postmodern age.

Author : Bojan Aleksov,Aliaksandr Piahanau
Publisher : Central European University Press
Page : 236 pages
File Size : 45,9 Mb
Release : 2020-09-15
Category : History
ISBN : 9789633863367

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Wars and Betweenness by Bojan Aleksov,Aliaksandr Piahanau Pdf

The region between the Baltic and the Black Sea was marked by a set of crises and conflicts in the 1920s and 1930s, demonstrating the diplomatic, military, economic or cultural engagement of France, Germany, Russia, Britain, Italy and Japan in this highly volatile region, and critically damaging the fragile post-Versailles political arrangement. The editors, in naming this region as "Middle Europe" seek to revive the symbolic geography of the time and accentuate its position, situated between Big Powers and two World Wars. The ten case studies in this book combine traditional diplomatic history with a broader emphasis on the geopolitical aspects of Big-Power rivalry to understand the interwar period. The essays claim that the European Big Powers played a key role in regional affairs by keeping the local conflicts and national movements under control and by exploiting the region's natural resources and military dependencies, while at the same time strengthening their prestige through cultural penetration and the cultivation of client networks. The authors, however, want to avoid the simplistic view that the Big Powers fully dominated the lesser players on the European stage. The relationship was indeed hierarchical, but the essays also reveal how the "small states" manipulated Big-Power disagreements, highlighting the limits of the latters' leverage throughout the 1920s and the 1930s.

Author : Robert Giddings,Elizabeth Holland
Publisher : Aletheia
Page : 310 pages
File Size : 53,8 Mb
Release : 1982
Category : Literary Criticism
ISBN : STANFORD:36105039433870

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J.R.R. Tolkien by Robert Giddings,Elizabeth Holland Pdf

Author : John Garth
Publisher : Princeton University Press
Page : 211 pages
File Size : 45,9 Mb
Release : 2020-06-09
Category : Biography & Autobiography
ISBN : 9780691196947

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The Worlds of J. R. R. Tolkien by John Garth Pdf

An illustrated journey into the life and imagination of one of the world's best-loved authors, Tolkien's Worlds provides a unique exploration of the relationship between the real and the fantastical and is an essential companion for anyone who wants to follow in Tolkien's footsteps.

Author : A. Zettersten
Publisher : Springer
Page : 386 pages
File Size : 40,8 Mb
Release : 2011-04-25
Category : Language Arts & Disciplines
ISBN : 9780230118409

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J.R.R. Tolkien's Double Worlds and Creative Process by A. Zettersten Pdf

A close colleague of Tolkein for many years, Zettersten offers here a personally informed analysis of his fiction. In light of his unusual life experience and enthusiasm for the study of languages, Zettersten finds in Tolkein's fiction the same animating passions that drove that great author as a youth, a soldier, a linguist, and an Oxford Don.

Author : Walter S. Judd
Publisher : Oxford University Press
Page : 425 pages
File Size : 45,9 Mb
Release : 2017
Category : SCIENCE
ISBN : 9780190276317

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Flora of Middle-Earth by Walter S. Judd Pdf

"This book catalogs every plant found in J.R.R. Tolkien's Legendarium, showing how these plants influenced Tolkien's stories and characters"--

Author : Nicholas Birns
Publisher : Taylor & Francis
Page : 201 pages
File Size : 48,7 Mb
Release : 2023-12-22
Category : Literary Criticism
ISBN : 9781003822226

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The Literary Role of History in the Fiction of J. R. R. Tolkien by Nicholas Birns Pdf

This volume analyzes the literary role played by history in the works of J. R. R. Tolkien. It argues that the events of The Lord of the Rings are placed against the background of an already-existing history, both in reality and in the fictional worlds of the books. History is unfolded in various ways, both in explicitly archival annals and in stories told by characters on the road or on the fly, and in which different visions of history emerge. In addition, the history within the work can resemble, or be patterned on, histories in our world. These histories range from the deep past of prehistoric and ancient worlds to the early medieval era of the barbarian invasions and Byzantium, to the modern worlds of urbane civility and a paradoxical longing for nature, and finally to great power rivalries and global prospects. The book argues that Tolkien did not employ these histories indiscriminately or reductively. Rather, he regarded them as aspects of aesthetic and representative figuration that are above all literary. While most criticism has concentrated on Tolkien’s use of historical traditions of Northern Europe, this book argues that Tolkien also valued Southern and Mediterranean pasts and registered the Germanic and the Scandinavian pasts as they related to other histories as much as his vision of them included a primeval mythic aura.

Author : Sarah Faber,Kerstin-Anja Münderlein
Publisher : Taylor & Francis
Page : 236 pages
File Size : 53,8 Mb
Release : 2024-03-11
Category : Literary Criticism
ISBN : 9781003852964

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Rethinking Gothic Transgressions of Gender and Sexuality by Sarah Faber,Kerstin-Anja Münderlein Pdf

From early examples of queer representation in mainstream media to present-day dissolutions of the human-nature boundary, the Gothic is always concerned with delineating and transgressing the norms that regulate society and speak to our collective fears and anxieties. This volume examines British and American Gothic texts from four centuries and diverse media – including novels, films, podcasts, and games – in case studies which outline the central relationship between the Gothic and transgression, particularly gender(ed) and sexual transgression. This relationship is both crucial and constantly shifting, ever in the process of renegotiation, as transgression defines the Gothic and society redefines transgression. The case studies draw on a combination of well-studied and under-studied texts in order to arrive at a more comprehensive picture of transgression in the Gothic. Pointing the way forward in Gothic Studies, this original and nuanced combination of gendered, Ecogothic, queer, and media critical approaches addresses established and new scholars of the Gothic alike.

Author : Michael D. C. Drout
Publisher : Taylor & Francis
Page : 810 pages
File Size : 48,6 Mb
Release : 2007
Category : Literary Criticism
ISBN : 9780415969420

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J.R.R. Tolkien Encyclopedia by Michael D. C. Drout Pdf

A detailed work of reference and scholarship, this one volume Encyclopedia includes discussions of all the fundamental issues in Tolkien scholarship written by the leading scholars in the field. Coverage not only presents the most recent scholarship on J.R.R. Tolkien, but also introduces and explores the author and scholar's life and work within their historical and cultural contexts. Tolkien's fiction and his sources of influence are examined along with his artistic and academic achievements - including his translations of medieval texts - teaching posts, linguistic works, and the languages he created. The 550 alphabetically arranged entries fall within the following categories of topics: adaptations art and illustrations characters in Tolkien's work critical history and scholarship influence of Tolkien languages biography literary sources literature creatures and peoples of Middle-earth objects in Tolkien's work places in Tolkien's work reception of Tolkien medieval scholars scholarship by Tolkien medieval literature stylistic elements themes in Tolkien's works theological/ philosophical concepts and philosophers Tolkien's contemporary history and culture works of literature

Author : Paul Harold Kocher
Publisher : Boston : Houghton Mifflin
Page : 266 pages
File Size : 55,9 Mb
Release : 1972
Category : Literary Criticism
ISBN : STANFORD:36105003778896

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Master of Middle-earth by Paul Harold Kocher Pdf

Identifies and describes the people, places, and events in the Lord of the Rings.

Author : John Garth
Publisher : HMH
Page : 419 pages
File Size : 48,8 Mb
Release : 2013-06-11
Category : Biography & Autobiography
ISBN : 9780544263727

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Tolkien and the Great War by John Garth Pdf

How the First World War influenced the author of the Lord of the Rings Trilogy: “Very much the best book about J.R.R. Tolkien that has yet been written.” —A. N. Wilson As Europe plunged into World War I, J. R. R. Tolkien was a student at Oxford and part of a cohort of literary-minded friends who had wide-ranging conversations in their Tea Club and Barrovian Society. After finishing his degree, Tolkien experienced the horrors of the Great War as a signal officer in the Battle of the Somme, where two of those school friends died. All the while, he was hard at work on an original mythology that would become the basis of his literary masterpiece, the Lord of the Rings trilogy. In this biographical study, drawn in part from Tolkien’s personal wartime papers, John Garth traces the development of the author’s work during this critical period. He shows how the deaths of two comrades compelled Tolkien to pursue the dream they had shared, and argues that the young man used his imagination not to escape from reality—but to transform the cataclysm of his generation. While Tolkien’s contemporaries surrendered to disillusionment, he kept enchantment alive, reshaping an entire literary tradition into a form that resonates to this day. “Garth’s fine study should have a major audience among serious students of Tolkien.” —Publishers Weekly “A highly intelligent book . . . Garth displays impressive skills both as researcher and writer.” —Max Hastings, author of The Secret War “Somewhere, I think, Tolkien is nodding in appreciation.” —San Jose Mercury News “A labour of love in which journalist Garth combines a newsman’s nose for a good story with a scholar’s scrupulous attention to detail . . . Brilliantly argued.” —Daily Mail (UK) “Gripping from start to finish and offers important new insights.” —Library Journal “Insight into how a writer turned academia into art, how deeply friendship supports and wounds us, and how the death and disillusionment that characterized World War I inspired Tolkien’s lush saga.” —Detroit Free Press

Author : Colin Duriez
Publisher : The History Press
Page : 311 pages
File Size : 46,5 Mb
Release : 2004-12-09
Category : Biography & Autobiography
ISBN : 9780752495620

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A Guide to Middle Earth by Colin Duriez Pdf

This absorbing insight into the mind behind Middle-earth will introduce or remind readers of the abundance that exists in Tolkien's thought and imagination. Interweaving sections explore The Lord of the Rings and its history; the key themes, concepts and images in Tolkein's work; the people and places in his life, and his other writings. At the heart of the book is an indispensible A-Z of middle-earth, with detailed entries on Beings, Places, Things and Events.

Author : Walter S. Judd,Graham A. Judd
Publisher : Oxford University Press
Page : 304 pages
File Size : 40,9 Mb
Release : 2017-07-18
Category : Science
ISBN : 9780190276324

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Flora of Middle-Earth by Walter S. Judd,Graham A. Judd Pdf

Few settings in literature are as widely known or celebrated as J.R.R. Tolkien's Middle-Earth. The natural landscape plays a major role in nearly all of Tolkien's major works, and readers have come to view the geography of this fictional universe as integral to understanding and enjoying Tolkien's works. And in laying out this continent, Tolkien paid special attention to its plant life; in total, over 160 plants are explicitly mentioned and described as a part of Middle-Earth. Nearly all of these plants are real species, and many of the fictional plants are based on scientifically grounded botanic principles. In Flora of Middle Earth: Plants of Tolkien's Legendarium, botanist Walter Judd gives a detailed species account of every plant found in Tolkien's universe, complete with the etymology of the plant's name, a discussion of its significance within Tolkien's work, a description of the plant's distribution and ecology, and an original hand-drawn illustration by artist Graham Judd in the style of a woodcut print. Among the over three-thousand vascular plants Tolkien would have seen in the British Isles, the authors show why Tolkien may have selected certain plants for inclusion in his universe over others, in terms of their botanic properties and traditional uses. The clear, comprehensive alphabetical listing of each species, along with the visual identification key of the plant drawings, adds to the reader's understanding and appreciation of the Tolkien canon.