Tolkien the medievalist / edited by Jane Chance.

Other author Chance, Jane, 1945-
Format Electronic
Publication InfoLondon ; New York : Routledge,
Descriptionxiv, 295 p. ; 24 cm.
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Subjects
Tolkien, J. R. R. (John Ronald Reuel), 1892-1973--Knowledge and learning.
Medievalism--England. --History. --20th century.
Fantasy fiction, English--History and criticism.
Literature, Medieval--Appreciation. --England.
Middle Earth (Imaginary place)
Medievalism in literature.
Middle Ages in literature.
Mythology in literature.

SeriesRoutledge studies in medieval religion and culture ; 3
Contents 1. Introduction / Jane Chance -- pt. 1. J.R.R. Tolkien as a medieval scholar : modern contexts. 2. "An industrious little devil" : E.V. Gordon as friend and collaborator with Tolkien / Douglas A. Anderson -- 3. "There would always be a fairy-tale" : J.R.R. Tolkien and the folklore controversy / Verlyn Flieger -- 4. A kind of mid-wife : J.R.R. Tolkien and C.S. Lewis--sharing influence / Andrew Lazo -- 5. "I wish to speak" : Tolkien's voice in his Beowulf essay / Mary Faraci -- 6. Middle-earth, the Middle Ages, and the Aryan nation : myth and history in World War II / Christine Chism -- pt. 2. J.R.R. Tolkien's The Lord of the rings and medieval literary and mythological texts/contexts. 7. Tolkien's Wild Men : from medieval to modern / Verlyn Flieger -- 8. The valkyrie reflex in J.R.R. Tolkien's The Lord of the rings : Galadriel, Shelob, ʹEowyn, and Arwen / Leslie A. Donovan -- 9. Exilic imagining in The Seafarer and The Lord of the rings / Miranda Wilcox -- 10. "Oathbreakers, why have ye come?" : Tolkien's "Passing of the Grey Company" and the twelfth-century Exercitus mortuorum / Margaret A. Sinex -- pt. 3. J.R.R. Tolkien : the texts/contexts of medieval patristics, theology, and iconography. 11. Augustine in the cottage of lost play : the Ainulindalë as asterisk cosmogony / John William Houghton -- 12. The "music of the spheres" : relationships between Tolkien's The Silmarillion and medieval cosmological and religious theory / Bradford Lee Eden -- 13. The anthropology of Arda : creation, theology, and the race of Men / Jonathan Evans -- 14. "A land without stain" : medieval images of Mary and their use in the characterization of Galadriel / Michael W. Maher -- pt. 4. J.R.R. Tolkien's Silmarillion mythology : medievalized retextualization and theory. 15. The great chain of reading : (inter- )textual relations and the technique of mythopoesis in the Tʹurin story / Gergely Nagy -- 16. Real-world myth in a secondary world : mythological aspects in the story of Beren and Lʹuthien / Richard C. West.
Bibliography noteIncludes bibliographical references (p. [268]-284) and index.
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