Tolkien, Self and Other "This Queer Creature"
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The New Middle Ages
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Sprache:Englisch
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Produktdetails
Einband
Taschenbuch
Erscheinungsdatum
13.05.2019
Verlag
Palgrave Macmillan USSeitenzahl
290
Maße (L/B/H)
21/14.8/1.8 cm
Gewicht
421 g
Auflage
1st ed. 2016
Sprache
Englisch
ISBN
978-1-349-67986-7
This book examines key points of J. R. R. Tolkien’s life and writing career in relation to his views on humanism and feminism, particularly his sympathy for and toleration of those who are different, deemed unimportant, or marginalized—namely, the Other. Jane Chance argues such empathy derived from a variety of causes ranging from the loss of his parents during his early life to a consciousness of the injustice and violence in both World Wars. As a result of his obligation to research and publish in his field and propelled by his sense of abjection and diminution of self, Tolkien concealed aspects of the personal in relatively consistent ways in his medieval adaptations, lectures, essays, and translations, many only recently published. These scholarly writings blend with and relate to his fictional writings in various ways depending on the moment at which he began teaching, translating, or editing a specific medieval work and, simultaneously, composing a specific poem, fantasy, or fairy-story. What Tolkien read and studied from the time before and during his college days at Exeter and continued researching until he died opens a door into understanding how he uniquely interpreted and repurposed the medieval in constructing fantasy.
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