Jane Chance: Tolkien, Self and Other

Cover: 9781349679867 | Tolkien, Self and Other | "This Queer Creature" | Jane Chance | Buch

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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.

Über den Autor

Jane Chance is the Andrew W. Mellon Distinguished Professor Emerita in English at Rice University, USA, and a recipient of an honorary doctorate of letters from Purdue University (2013). Author of twenty-five books and over a hundred articles and reviews, she has received Guggenheim and NEH Fellowships, among others, as well as membership at the Institute for Advanced Study at Princeton, a Rockefeller Foundation residency at Bellagio, and book and article prizes for her work.

Zusammenfassung

Combines biography, archival research, and literary analysis to paint a complicated and comprehensive picture of Tolkien

Delves into a vast body of material including Tolkien's medieval adaptations, lectures, essays, and translations, many only recently published

Provides a provocative and controversial angle to Tolkien's views on humanism and feminism.

Inhaltsverzeichnis

Introduction "This Queer Creature"

Chapter 1: Forlorn and Abject: Tolkien and His Earliest Writings (1914-1924)

Chapter 2: Bilbo as Sigurd in the Fairy-Story Hobbit (1920-1927)

Chapter 3: Tolkien's Fairy-Story Beowulfs (1926-1940s)

Chapter 4: "Queer Endings" After Beowulf: The Fall of Arthur (1931-1934)

Chapter 5: Apartheid in Tolkien: Chaucer and The Lord of the Rings, Books 1-3 (1925-1943)

Chapter 6: "Usually Slighted": Gudrún, Other Medieval Women, and The Lord of the Rings, Book 3 (1925-1943)

Chapter 7: The Failure of Masculinity: The Homecoming of Beorhtnoth (1920), Sir Gawain (1925), and The Lord of the Rings, Books 3-6 (1943-1948)

Conclusion: The Ennoblement of the Humble: The History of Middle-earth

Details

Erscheinungsjahr:	2019
Genre:	Allgemeine Lexika
Rubrik:	Literaturwissenschaft
Medium:	Taschenbuch
Reihe:	The New Middle Ages
Inhalt:	xxxii 290 S.
ISBN-13:	9781349679867
ISBN-10:	1349679860
Sprache:	Englisch
Ausstattung / Beilage:	Paperback
Einband:	Kartoniert / Broschiert
Autor:	Chance, Jane
Auflage:	1st ed. 2016
Hersteller:	Palgrave Macmillan Palgrave Macmillan US The New Middle Ages
Maße:	210 x 148 x 18 mm
Von/Mit:	Jane Chance
Erscheinungsdatum:	13.05.2019
Gewicht:	0,421 kg

Artikel-ID: 115101817