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Title Tolkien the medievalist / edited by Jane Chance
Published London ; New York : Routledge, 2003

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Description 1 online resource (xiv, 295 pages)
Series Routledge studies in medieval religion and culture ; 3
Routledge studies in medieval religion and culture ; 3.
Contents 1. Introduction / Jane Chance -- pt. 1. J.R.R. Tolkien as a medieval scholar : modern contexts. 2. "An industrious little devil" : E.V. Gordon as friend and collaborator with Tolkien / Douglas A. Anderson -- 3. "There would always be a fairy-tale" : J.R.R. Tolkien and the folklore controversy / Verlyn Flieger -- 4. A kind of mid-wife : J.R.R. Tolkien and C.S. Lewis--sharing influence / Andrew Lazo -- 5. "I wish to speak" : Tolkien's voice in his Beowulf essay / Mary Faraci -- 6. Middle-earth, the Middle Ages, and the Aryan nation : myth and history in World War II / Christine Chism -- pt. 2. J.R.R. Tolkien's The Lord of the rings and medieval literary and mythological texts/contexts. 7. Tolkien's Wild Men : from medieval to modern / Verlyn Flieger -- 8. The valkyrie reflex in J.R.R. Tolkien's The Lord of the rings : Galadriel, Shelob, ʹEowyn, and Arwen / Leslie A. Donovan -- 9. Exilic imagining in The Seafarer and The Lord of the rings / Miranda Wilcox -- 10. "Oathbreakers, why have ye come?" : Tolkien's "Passing of the Grey Company" and the twelfth-century Exercitus mortuorum / Margaret A. Sinex -- pt. 3. J.R.R. Tolkien : the texts/contexts of medieval patristics, theology, and iconography. 11. Augustine in the cottage of lost play : the Ainulindalë as asterisk cosmogony / John William Houghton -- 12. The "music of the spheres" : relationships between Tolkien's The Silmarillion and medieval cosmological and religious theory / Bradford Lee Eden -- 13. The anthropology of Arda : creation, theology, and the race of Men / Jonathan Evans -- 14. "A land without stain" : medieval images of Mary and their use in the characterization of Galadriel / Michael W. Maher -- pt. 4. J.R.R. Tolkien's Silmarillion mythology : medievalized retextualization and theory. 15. The great chain of reading : (inter- )textual relations and the technique of mythopoesis in the Tʹurin story / Gergely Nagy -- 16. Real-world myth in a secondary world : mythological aspects in the story of Beren and Lʹuthien / Richard C. West
Summary Interdisciplinary in approach, this book provides a fresh perspective on J.R.R. Tolkien's medievalism. Fifteen essays explore how professor Tolkien responded to a modern age of crisis - historical, academic and personal
Bibliography Includes bibliographical references (pages 268-284) and index
Notes English
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Subject Tolkien, J. R. R. (John Ronald Reuel), 1892-1973 -- Knowledge and learning
SUBJECT Tolkien, J. R. R. (John Ronald Reuel), 1892-1973 fast
Subject Medievalism -- England -- History -- 20th century
Fantasy fiction, English -- Medieval influences
Literature, Medieval -- Appreciation -- England
Middle Earth (Imaginary place)
Medievalism in literature.
Middle Ages in literature.
Mythology in literature.
Fantasy fiction, English -- History and criticism
LITERARY CRITICISM -- European -- English, Irish, Scottish, Welsh.
Fantasy fiction, English
Learning and scholarship
Literature, Medieval -- Appreciation
Medievalism
Medievalism in literature
Middle Ages in literature
Middle Earth (Imaginary place)
Mythology in literature
Mediëvistiek.
Fantasie.
Letterkunde.
The lord of the rings (Tolkien)
England
Genre/Form Electronic books
Criticism, interpretation, etc.
History
Form Electronic book
Author Chance, Jane, 1945-
ISBN 0203218019
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