Tolkien's modern Middle Ages / edited by Jane Chance and Alfred K. Siewers.
| Other author | Chance, Jane, 1945- |
| Other author | Siewers, Alfred K. (Alfred Kentigern) |
| Format | Book |
| Edition | 1st Palgrave Macmillan pbk. ed. |
| Publication Info | New York : Palgrave Macmillan, 2009, ©2005. |
| Description | xviii, 250 pages : illustrations ; 22 cm. |
| Subjects |
| Series | The new Middle Ages New Middle Ages (Palgrave (Firm)) ^A505131 |
| Contents | Introduction: Tolkien's modern medievalism / Jane Chance and 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. |
| Bibliography note | Includes bibliographical references (p. [213]-227) and index. |
| ISBN | 0230616798 |
| ISBN | 9780230616790 |
Availability
| Library | Location | Call Number | Status | Item Actions |
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| Joyner | General Stacks | PR6039.O32 Z6224 2009 | ✔ Available | Place Hold |