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Robert T. Tally Jr. is a Professor of English at Texas State University, USA. His books include For a Ruthless Critique of All That Exists: Literature in an Age of Capitalist Realism (2022), Topophrenia: Place, Narrative, and the Spatial Imagination (2019), and Fredric Jameson: The Project of Dialectical Criticism (2014).
Introduces and provides expert insights into "The Hobbit" and Tolkien studies
Engages with interdisciplinary modes of criticism drawing from philosophy, geography, and history
Points to new critical lenses for Tolkien studies including race, space and place, narrative theory, and Marxist theory
Preface and Acknowledgements
1. Introduction: In a hole in the ground . . .
There and Back Again
A Hobbit in All But Size
The Fish Out of Water
2. The Way to Talk to Dragons: Interpellation, Style, and Narrative Form
A Silliness of Manner
"Praps we sits here and chats"
From a Mythic to a Historical Mode
3. Nasty Disturbing Uncomfortable Things: The Intrusions of History
A Waverley of the Shire
The Vanishing Mediator; or, the Uses of Anachronism
The Seamless Web of Story
Bringing It All Back Home
4. Show Me Now Your Map: Towards a Literary Cartography of Middle-earth
Thrór's Map: The Hidden Entrance to Middle-earth
The Edge of the Wild
Roads Go Ever Ever On
Plus Ultra: Gandalf's Peregrinations5. More Dangerous and Less Wise: Race, Class, and the Geopolitical Order
What is a Race?
Good People and Decent Enough People
Cruel, Wicked, and Bad-Hearted
Dragon Sickness
6. Conclusion: Quite a little fellow in a wide world
Bibliography
Index
Erscheinungsjahr: | 2022 |
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Genre: | Allgemeine Lexika |
Rubrik: | Literaturwissenschaft |
Medium: | Taschenbuch |
Seiten: | 124 |
Reihe: | Palgrave Science Fiction and Fantasy: A New Canon |
Inhalt: |
xx
101 S. 1 s/w Illustr. 101 p. 1 illus. |
ISBN-13: | 9783031112652 |
ISBN-10: | 3031112652 |
Sprache: | Englisch |
Ausstattung / Beilage: | Paperback |
Einband: | Kartoniert / Broschiert |
Autor: | Tally Jr., Robert T. |
Auflage: | 1st ed. 2022 |
Hersteller: |
Springer International Publishing
Springer International Publishing AG Palgrave Science Fiction and Fantasy: A New Canon |
Maße: | 210 x 148 x 8 mm |
Von/Mit: | Robert T. Tally Jr. |
Erscheinungsdatum: | 19.09.2022 |
Gewicht: | 0,172 kg |
Robert T. Tally Jr. is a Professor of English at Texas State University, USA. His books include For a Ruthless Critique of All That Exists: Literature in an Age of Capitalist Realism (2022), Topophrenia: Place, Narrative, and the Spatial Imagination (2019), and Fredric Jameson: The Project of Dialectical Criticism (2014).
Introduces and provides expert insights into "The Hobbit" and Tolkien studies
Engages with interdisciplinary modes of criticism drawing from philosophy, geography, and history
Points to new critical lenses for Tolkien studies including race, space and place, narrative theory, and Marxist theory
Preface and Acknowledgements
1. Introduction: In a hole in the ground . . .
There and Back Again
A Hobbit in All But Size
The Fish Out of Water
2. The Way to Talk to Dragons: Interpellation, Style, and Narrative Form
A Silliness of Manner
"Praps we sits here and chats"
From a Mythic to a Historical Mode
3. Nasty Disturbing Uncomfortable Things: The Intrusions of History
A Waverley of the Shire
The Vanishing Mediator; or, the Uses of Anachronism
The Seamless Web of Story
Bringing It All Back Home
4. Show Me Now Your Map: Towards a Literary Cartography of Middle-earth
Thrór's Map: The Hidden Entrance to Middle-earth
The Edge of the Wild
Roads Go Ever Ever On
Plus Ultra: Gandalf's Peregrinations5. More Dangerous and Less Wise: Race, Class, and the Geopolitical Order
What is a Race?
Good People and Decent Enough People
Cruel, Wicked, and Bad-Hearted
Dragon Sickness
6. Conclusion: Quite a little fellow in a wide world
Bibliography
Index
Erscheinungsjahr: | 2022 |
---|---|
Genre: | Allgemeine Lexika |
Rubrik: | Literaturwissenschaft |
Medium: | Taschenbuch |
Seiten: | 124 |
Reihe: | Palgrave Science Fiction and Fantasy: A New Canon |
Inhalt: |
xx
101 S. 1 s/w Illustr. 101 p. 1 illus. |
ISBN-13: | 9783031112652 |
ISBN-10: | 3031112652 |
Sprache: | Englisch |
Ausstattung / Beilage: | Paperback |
Einband: | Kartoniert / Broschiert |
Autor: | Tally Jr., Robert T. |
Auflage: | 1st ed. 2022 |
Hersteller: |
Springer International Publishing
Springer International Publishing AG Palgrave Science Fiction and Fantasy: A New Canon |
Maße: | 210 x 148 x 8 mm |
Von/Mit: | Robert T. Tally Jr. |
Erscheinungsdatum: | 19.09.2022 |
Gewicht: | 0,172 kg |