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- Condition
- Release Year
- 2024
- Book Title
- Mapping Middle-earth: Environmental and Political Narratives i...
- ISBN
- 9781350290808
- Subject Area
- Literary Criticism
- Publication Name
- Mapping Middle-Earth : Environmental and Political Narratives in J. R. R. Tolkien's Cartographies
- Publisher
- Bloomsbury Publishing
- Item Length
- 9.2 in
- Subject
- Science Fiction & Fantasy, Modern / 20th Century, European / English, Irish, Scottish, Welsh
- Publication Year
- 2024
- Series
- Perspectives on Fantasy Ser.
- Type
- Textbook
- Format
- Trade Paperback
- Language
- English
- Item Height
- 0.5 in
- Item Weight
- 11.2 Oz
- Item Width
- 6.2 in
- Number of Pages
- 200 Pages
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Product Identifiers
Publisher
Bloomsbury Publishing
ISBN-10
1350290807
ISBN-13
9781350290808
eBay Product ID (ePID)
3061618230
Product Key Features
Number of Pages
200 Pages
Publication Name
Mapping Middle-Earth : Environmental and Political Narratives in J. R. R. Tolkien's Cartographies
Language
English
Publication Year
2024
Subject
Science Fiction & Fantasy, Modern / 20th Century, European / English, Irish, Scottish, Welsh
Type
Textbook
Subject Area
Literary Criticism
Series
Perspectives on Fantasy Ser.
Format
Trade Paperback
Dimensions
Item Height
0.5 in
Item Weight
11.2 Oz
Item Length
9.2 in
Item Width
6.2 in
Additional Product Features
Intended Audience
Scholarly & Professional
LCCN
2023-030907
Dewey Edition
23
Reviews
" Mapping Middle-earth revealed challenges in approaching Tolkien in some ways, it also proved how much there is still to learn about the legendarium by employing others. And it did so through insightful readings, well-structured arguments, and with focus on something I cannot pretend to find other than utterly fascinating: maps, mapping, and cartography." -- Journal of Tolkien Research, Mapping Middle-earth revealed challenges in approaching Tolkien in some ways, it also proved how much there is still to learn about the legendarium by employing others. And it did so through insightful readings, well-structured arguments, and with focus on something I cannot pretend to find other than utterly fascinating: maps, mapping, and cartography.
Dewey Decimal
823.912
Table Of Content
Introduction - Space, power, and critical cartography - Literary maps - Structure and overview Chapter 1: Political mapmaking - Medieval cartographic practices - Modern cartographic practices - Tolkien's cartography Map I: I Vene Kemen Map II: The 'Ambarkanta' diagrams and maps Map III: Thror's Map Map IV: The Middle-earth map Map V: Map of Rohan, Gondor and Mordor Chapter 2: Environment - Navigating the human, nonhuman, and posthuman - Tom Bombadil and the nonhuman - Mapping the human and nonhuman in Middle-earth - Stewardship - Environmental destruction - Nonhuman agency Chapter 3: Geology and Time - Deep time - Middle-earth's geology - Mapping geology and geologizing maps - Fixing experiences of time - Mapping anthropological change Chapter 4: Imperialism and Race - The politics of land and map - (Dis)possessing Middle-earth's lands - The threshold space - Mutual vulnerability and racialization - Narratives of imperialism Conclusion Index Bibliography
Synopsis
In this cutting-edge study of Tolkien's most critically neglected maps, Anahit Behrooz examines how cartography has traditionally been bound up in facilitating power. Far more than just illustrations to aid understanding of the story, Tolkien's corpus of maps are crucial to understanding the broader narratives between humans and their political and environmental landscapes within his legendarium. Undertaking a diegetic literary analysis of the maps as examples of Middle-earth's own cultural output, Behrooz reveals a sub-created tradition of cartography that articulates specific power dynamics between mapmaker, map reader, and what is being mapped, as well as the human/nonhuman binary that represents human's control over the natural world. Mapping Middle-earth surveys how Tolkien frames cartography as an inherently political act that embodies a desire for control of that which it maps. In turn, it analyses harmful contemporary engagements with land that intersect with, but also move beyond, cartography such as environmental damage; human-induced geological change; and the natural and bodily costs of political violence and imperialism. Using historical, eco-critical, and postcolonial frameworks, and such theorists as Michel Foucault, Donna Haraway and Edward Said, this book explores Tolkien's employment of particular generic tropes including medievalism, fantasy, and the interplay between image and text to highlight, and at times correct, his contemporary socio-political epoch and its destructive relationship with the wider world.
LC Classification Number
PR6039.O32Z56624
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