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Tolkien among the Moderns.

By: Material type: TextTextPublisher: Notre Dame, IN : University of Notre Dame Press, 2015Copyright date: ©2015Edition: 1st edDescription: 1 online resource (311 pages)Content type:
  • text
Media type:
  • computer
Carrier type:
  • online resource
ISBN:
  • 9780268158545
Subject(s): Genre/Form: Additional physical formats: Print version:: Tolkien among the ModernsDDC classification:
  • 823/.912
LOC classification:
  • PR6039.O32 .T655 2015
Online resources:
Contents:
Intro -- Contents -- Introduction -- Chapter 1: Philosophic Poet -- Chapter 2: On Fate, Providence, and Free Will in The Silmarillion -- Chapter 3: Unlikely Knights, Improbable Heroes -- Chapter 4: Tolkien or Nietzsche -- Philology and Nihilism -- Chapter 5: A Portrait of the Poet as an Old Hobbit -- Chapter 6: Pouring New Wine into Old Bottles -- Chapter 7: The Consolations of Fantasy -- Chapter 8: "That the World Not Be Usurped" -- Chapter 9: Tolkien and Postmodernism -- Contributors -- Index.
Summary: Essays place modern writers and modern quandaries in lively engagement with the broad range of Tolkien's work, focusing on The Lord of the Rings.
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Intro -- Contents -- Introduction -- Chapter 1: Philosophic Poet -- Chapter 2: On Fate, Providence, and Free Will in The Silmarillion -- Chapter 3: Unlikely Knights, Improbable Heroes -- Chapter 4: Tolkien or Nietzsche -- Philology and Nihilism -- Chapter 5: A Portrait of the Poet as an Old Hobbit -- Chapter 6: Pouring New Wine into Old Bottles -- Chapter 7: The Consolations of Fantasy -- Chapter 8: "That the World Not Be Usurped" -- Chapter 9: Tolkien and Postmodernism -- Contributors -- Index.

Essays place modern writers and modern quandaries in lively engagement with the broad range of Tolkien's work, focusing on The Lord of the Rings.

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Electronic reproduction. Ann Arbor, Michigan : ProQuest Ebook Central, 2024. Available via World Wide Web. Access may be limited to ProQuest Ebook Central affiliated libraries.

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