The Literary Role of History in the Fiction of J. R. R. Tolkien (Routledge
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- 9781032597683
- UPC
- 9781032597683
- ISBN
- 9781032597683
- MPN
- N/A
- Item Height
- 1.4 cm
- Item Weight
- 0.38 kg
- Publication Year
- 2024
- Format
- Hardcover
- Language
- English
- Book Title
- Literary Role of History in the Fiction of J. R. R. Tolkien
- Book Series
- Routledge Studies in Twentieth-Century Literature Ser.
- Publisher
- Routledge, Chapman & Hall, Incorporated
- Genre
- Literary Criticism
- Item Length
- 9 in
- Topic
- Modern / 20th Century
- Item Width
- 6 in
- Number of Pages
- 248 Pages
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Routledge, Chapman & Hall, Incorporated
ISBN-10
1032597682
ISBN-13
9781032597683
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Book Title
Literary Role of History in the Fiction of J. R. R. Tolkien
Number of Pages
248 Pages
Language
English
Topic
Modern / 20th Century
Publication Year
2024
Genre
Literary Criticism
Book Series
Routledge Studies in Twentieth-Century Literature Ser.
Format
Hardcover
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Item Length
9 in
Item Width
6 in
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2023-035764
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Dewey Edition
23
Reviews
"Nicholas Birns explores diverse and wide-ranging visions of history in Tolkien's works, including Roman, Mediterranean, Semitic, and Byzantine influences, thus significantly expanding the conventional focus in Tolkien studies on the early Germanic world, while his discussion of the Goths and Lombards provides a detailed and nuanced account of Tolkien's interest in Germanic histories. Various chapters offer different historical contexts and sometimes surprising insights, such as 18th-century politeness in Théoden and the hobbits; 19th-century Romanticism in the nature-loving Silvan Elves; 20th-century philologists and Tolkien, and the shocking effect of Appendix F in Lord of the Rings. Select a chapter or read the entire book, which examines history in the real world and inside the fiction, from Númenor to the last days of the Dwarves, and suggests ways in which history can be read as an analogue, a limitation, or a creative inspiration for our understanding of Tolkien and his fiction." --Anna Smol, Mount Saint Vincent University
Dewey Decimal
823.912
Synopsis
This volume analyzes the literary role played by history in the works of J. R. R. Tolkien. It argues that the events of The Lord of the Rings are placed against the background of an already-existing history, both in reality and in the fictional worlds of the books. History is unfolded in various ways, both in explicitly archival annals and in stories told by characters on the road or on the fly, and in which different visions of history emerge. In addition, the history within the work can resemble, or be patterned on histories in our world. These histories range from the deep past of prehistoric and ancient worlds to the early medieval era of the barbarian invasions and Byzantium, to the modern worlds of urbane civility and a paradoxical longing for nature, and finally to great power-rivalries and global prospects. The book argues that Tolkien did not employ these histories indiscriminately or reductively. Rather, he regarded them as aspects of aesthetic and representative figuration that are above all literary. While most criticism has concentrated on Tolkien's use of historical traditions of northern Europe, this book argues that Tolkien also valued Southern and Mediterranean pasts and registered the Germanic and the Scandinavian pasts as they related to other histories as much as his vision of them included a primeval mythic aura., This volume analyzes the literary role played by history in the works of J. R. R. Tolkien. It argues that the events of The Lord of the Rings are placed against the background of an already-existing history, both in reality and in the fictional worlds of the books.
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