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

• Introduction: Tolkien's modern medievalism / Jane Chance, Alfred K. Siewers -- 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.

Ämnesord

Middle Earth (Imaginary place)  (LCSH)

Middle Ages in literature.  (LCSH)

History in literature.  (LCSH)

Literature and history  -- England -- History -- 20th century. (LCSH)

Fantasy fiction, English  -- History and criticism. (LCSH)

Medievalism  -- England -- History -- 20th century. (LCSH)

Postmodernism (Literature)  -- England. (LCSH)

Personnamn

Tolkien, J. R. R. (John Ronald Reuel), 1892-1973 -- Criticism and interpretation.

Tolkien, J. R. R. (John Ronald Reuel), 1892-1973 -- Knowledge -- History.

Tolkien, J. R. R. (John Ronald Reuel), 1892-1973.

Indexterm och SAB-rubrik

Gez Litteraturhistoria: engelska: särskilda författare

Klassifikation

PR6039.O32 (LCC)

828/.91209 (DDC)

Gez Tolkien, J. R. R. (kssb/7)