Jane
Chance, ed.
Tolkien the Medievalist.
London: Routledge, due
September 2002.
Routledge
Studies in Medieval Religion and Culture 3.
320pp.
Hardback ISBN 0415289440.
Publisher's
recommended price £60.00
Interdisciplinary
in approach, Tolkien the Medievalist provides a fresh
perspective
on J. R. R. Tolkien's Medievalism. In fifteen essays, eminent scholars
and new voices explore how Professor Tolkien responded to a modern age
of crisis - historical, academic and personal - by adapting his
scholarship
on medieval literature to his own personal voice. The four sections
reveal
the author influenced by his profession, religious faith and important
issues of the time; by his relationships with other medievalists; by
the
medieval sources that he read and taught, and by his own medieval
mythologizing.
Contents:
1. Jane Chance Introduction
Part
I: J.
R. R. Tolkien as a Medieval Scholar: Modern Contexts 2. Douglas A.
Anderson 'An Industrious Little Devil': E. V. Gordon as Friend and
Collaborator
with Tolkien 3. Verlyn Flieger 'There Would Always Be a
Fairy-Tale':
J. R. R. Tolkien and the Folklore Controversy 4. Andrew Lazo A
Kind
of Mid-Wife: J. R. R. Tolkien and C. S. Lewis - Sharing Influence
5.
Mary Faraci 'I Wish to Speak': Tolkien's Voice in His Beowulf Essay
6. Christine Chism Middle-Earth, the Middle Ages, and the Aryan
Nation:
Myth and History in World War II
Part
II: J.
R. R. Tolkien's Lord of the Rings and Medieval Literary and
Mythological
Texts/Contexts 7. Verlyn Flieger Tolkien's Wild Men: From
Medieval
to Modern 8. Leslie A. Donovan The Valkyrie Reflex in J. R. R.
Tokien's
The Lord of the Rings: Galadriel, Shelob. Éowyn, and Arwen
9.
Miranda Wilcox Exilic Imagining in The Seafarer and The Lord of the
Rings 10. Margaret A. Sinex 'Oathbreakers, Why Have Ye Come?':
Tolkien's
'Passing of the Grey Company' and the Twelfth-Century Exercitus
Mortuorum
Part
III :
J. R. R. Tolkien: The Texts/Contexts of Medieval Patristics, Theology,
and Iconography 11. John William Houghton Augustine in the
Cottage
of Lost Play: The Ainulindalë as Asterisk Cosmogony 12. Brad
Eden Music
of the Spheres: Relationships between Tolkien's Silmarillion and
Medieval
Cosmological and Religious Theory 13. Jonathan Evans The
Anthropology
of Arda: Creation, Theology, and the Race of Men 14. Michael W.
Maher,
S. J. A Land without Stain: Medieval Images of Mary and Their Use
in
the Characterization of Galadriel
Part
IV: J.
R. R. Tolkien's Silmarillion Mythology: Medievalized Retextualization
and
Theory 15. Gargely Nagy The Great Chain of Reading: (Inter-)
Textual
Relations and the Technique of Mythopoesis in the Túrin Story
16. Richard C. West Real World Myth in a Secondary World:
Mythological
Aspects in the Story of Beren and Lúthien.
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