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Tolkien among the Moderns /

"It has long been recognized that J.R.R. Tolkien's work is animated by a profound moral and religious vision. It is less clear that Tolkien's vision confronts the leading philosophical and literary concerns addressed by modern writers and thinkers. This book seeks to resolve such unce...

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Detalles Bibliográficos
Otros Autores: Wood, Ralph C. (Editor )
Formato: Electrónico eBook
Idioma:Inglés
Publicado: Notre Dame, Indiana : University of Notre Dame Press, [2015]
Colección:Book collections on Project MUSE.
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Acceso en línea:Texto completo
Tabla de Contenidos:
  • Tolkien among the moderns / Ralph C. Wood
  • Philosophic poet : J.R.R. Tolkien's modern response to an ancient quarrel / Germaine Paulo Walsh
  • On fate, providence, and free will in The Silmarillion / Helen Lasseter Freeh
  • Unlikely knights, improbable heroes : inverse, antimodernist paradigms in Tolkien and Cervantes / Michael D. Thomas
  • Tolkien or Nietzsche: philology and nihilism / Peter M. Candler, Jr.
  • A portrait of the poet as an Old Hobbit : engaging modernist aesthetic ontology in The Fellowship of the ring / Phillip J. Donnelly
  • Pouring new wine into old bottles : Tolkien, Joyce, and the modern epic / Dominic Manganeillo
  • The consolations of fantasy : J.R.R. Tolkien and Iris Murdoch / Scott H. Moore
  • "That the world not be usurped" : Emmanuel Levinas and J.R.R. Tolkien on serving the other as release from bondage / Joseph Tadie
  • Tolkien and postmodernism / Ralph C. Wood.