Evocation Of Virgil In Tolkien S Art
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Evocation of Virgil in Tolkien s Art
Author | : Robert E. Morse |
Publsiher | : Bolchazy-Carducci Publishers |
Total Pages | : 80 |
Release | : 1986 |
Genre | : Literary Criticism |
ISBN | : 0865161755 |
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In his Preface, Robert Morse states that both Vergil and Tolkien present myth as an aspect of an historical continuum. For these authors, myth does not seem to represent a falsehood, but rather it seems to narrate a record of experience from which humanity learns. Thus, myth is...a form of memory. In Evocation of Vergil in Tolkien's Art, Robert Morse asks the question: does this syncretism of myth and history serve a similar purpose in each author?
Lord of the Rings
Author | : Jane Chance |
Publsiher | : University Press of Kentucky |
Total Pages | : 184 |
Release | : 2001-10-26 |
Genre | : Literary Criticism |
ISBN | : 9780813138015 |
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" With New Line Cinema's production of The Lord of the Rings film trilogy, the popularity of the works of J.R.R. Tolkien is unparalleled. Tolkien's books continue to be bestsellers decades after their original publication. An epic in league with those of Spenser and Malory, The Lord of the Rings trilogy, begun during Hitler's rise to power, celebrates the insignificant individual as hero in the modern world. Jane Chance's critical appraisal of Tolkien's heroic masterwork is the first to explore its "mythology of power"--that is, how power, politics, and language interact. Chance looks beyond the fantastic, self-contained world of Middle-earth to the twentieth-century parallels presented in the trilogy.
J R R Tolkien Encyclopedia
Author | : Michael D. C. Drout |
Publsiher | : Taylor & Francis |
Total Pages | : 810 |
Release | : 2007 |
Genre | : Literary Criticism |
ISBN | : 9780415969420 |
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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
A Guide to Middle Earth
Author | : Colin Duriez |
Publsiher | : The History Press |
Total Pages | : 311 |
Release | : 2004-12-09 |
Genre | : Biography & Autobiography |
ISBN | : 9780752495620 |
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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.
J R R Tolkien
Author | : Harold Bloom |
Publsiher | : Infobase Publishing |
Total Pages | : 189 |
Release | : 2008 |
Genre | : Electronic Book |
ISBN | : 9781604131468 |
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The revered author of the fantasy works The Hobbit and The Lord of the Rings also had a distinguished career as a professor at Oxford University and as a scholar specializing in Anglo-Saxon literature. This new edition is enhanced by a chronology, bibliography, notes on the contributors, and an introductory essay by noted literary scholar Harold Bloom. Book jacket.
Tolkien and the Invention of Myth A Reader
Author | : Jane Chance |
Publsiher | : University Press of Kentucky |
Total Pages | : 422 |
Release | : 2005 |
Genre | : Literary Criticism |
ISBN | : 081312963X |
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[In this book, the] essays illuminate the crucial episodes, characters, style, language, and concpets central to Tolkien's complex world.-Dust jacket.
Tolkien
Author | : B. Rosebury |
Publsiher | : Springer |
Total Pages | : 246 |
Release | : 2003-10-21 |
Genre | : Literary Criticism |
ISBN | : 9780230599987 |
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This comprehensive and discriminating account of Tolkien's work has been revised and expanded, to take account both of recent developments in scholarship, and of the recent films directed by Peter Jackson. Tracing the development of Tolkien's creative technique over several decades, it explores the bewildering profusion of shorter works, as well as devoting an extended analysis to The Lord of the Rings . Chapters consider Tolkien's contribution to the history of ideas, and review the reception of the Lord of the Rings film adaptations and other popular adaptations of his work.
J R R Tolkien s Utopianism and the Classics
Author | : Hamish Williams |
Publsiher | : Bloomsbury Publishing |
Total Pages | : 225 |
Release | : 2023-02-09 |
Genre | : Literary Criticism |
ISBN | : 9781350241473 |
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This book opens up new perspectives on the English fantasy writer J.R.R. Tolkien, arguing that he was an influential thinker of utopianism in 20th-century fiction and that his scrutiny of utopias can be assessed through his dialogue with antiquity. Tolkien's engagement with the ancient world often reflects an interest in retrotopianism: his fictional places – cities, forests, homes – draw on a rich (post-)classical narrative imagination of similar spaces. Importantly for Tolkien, such narratives entail 'eutopian' thought experiments: the decline and fall of distinctly 'classical' communities provide an utopian blueprint for future political restorations; the home as oikos becomes a space where an ideal ethical reciprocity between host and guest can be sought; the 'ancient forest' is an ambiguous, unsettling site where characters can experience necessary forms of awakening. From these perspectives, tokens of Platonic moderation, Augustan restoration, Homeric xenophilia, and the Ovidian material sublime are evident in Tolkien's writing. Likewise, his retrotopianism also always entails a rewriting of ancient narratives in post-classical and modern terms. This study then explores how Tolkien's use of the classical past can help us to align classical and utopian studies, and thus to reflect on the ranges and limits of utopianism in classical literature and thought.