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"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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Bibliographic Details
Call Number:Libro Electrónico
Other Authors: Wood, Ralph C. (Editor)
Format: Electronic eBook
Language:Inglés
Published: Notre Dame, Indiana : University of Notre Dame Press, [2015]
Subjects:
Tolkien, J. R. R. > (John Ronald Reuel), > 1892-1973 > Philosophy.
Tolkien, J. R. R. > (John Ronald Reuel), > 1892-1973 > Knowledge > Literature.
Tolkien, J. R. R. > (John Ronald Reuel), > 1892-1973.
Tolkien, J. R. R. > 1892-1973
Philosophy in literature.
Postmodernism (Literature)
Philosophie dans la littérature.
Postmodernisme (Littérature)
LITERARY CRITICISM > European > English, Irish, Scottish, Welsh.
Literature.
Philosophy.
Filosofi i litteraturen.
Postmodernism (litteratur)
Online Access:Texto completo
Table of Contents:
  • 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.

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