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- Title Tolkien Among the Moderns
- Author Ralph C. Wood (Editor)
- Binding Paperback
- Pages 310
- Volumes 1
- Language ENG
- Publisher University of Notre Dame Press
- Date 2015-09-15
- Features Bibliography, Index
- ISBN 9780268019730 / 0268019738
- Weight 1.1 lbs (0.50 kg)
- Dimensions 8.9 x 5.9 x 0.7 in (22.61 x 14.99 x 1.78 cm)
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- Chronological Period: 20th Century
- Library of Congress subjects Philosophy in literature, Postmodernism (Literature)
- Library of Congress Catalog Number 2015023726
- Dewey Decimal Code 823.912
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Paperback / softback. New. 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 uncertainty. It places modern writers and modern quandaries in lively engagement with the broad range of Tolkien's work, while giving special attention to the textual particularities of his masterpiece, The Lord of the Rings. In ways at once provocative and original, the contributors deal with major modern artists and philosophers, including Miguel de Cervantes, Friedrich Nietzsche, Emmanuel Levinas, Iris Murdoch, and James Joyce. The essays in Tolkien among the Moderns also point forward to postmodernism by examining its implications for Tolkien's work. Looking backward, they show how Tolkien addresses two ancient questions: the problems of fate and freedom in a seemingly…
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University of Notre Dame Press, August 2015. Trade Paperback. New. Editor is Ralph C. Woods. . . . . . . TABLE OF CONTENTS: 1.) Tolkien among the moderns by Ralph C. Wood -- 2.) Philosophic poet: J.R.R. Tolkien's modern response to an ancient quarrel by Germaine Paulo Walsh -- 3.) On fate, providence, and free will in The Silmarillion by Helen Lasseter Freeh -- 4.) Unlikely knights, improbable heroes: inverse, antimodernist paradigms in Tolkien and Cervantes by Michael D. Thomas -- 5.) Tolkien or Nietzsche: philology and nihilism by Peter M. Candler, Jr. -- 6.) A portrait of the poet as an Old Hobbit : engaging modernist aesthetic ontology in The Fellowship of the ring by Phillip J. Donnelly -- 7.) Pouring new wine into old bottles : Tolkien, Joyce, and the modern epic by Dominic Manganiello -- 8.) The consolations of fantasy: J.R.R. Tolkien and Iris Murdoch by Scott H. Moore -- 9.) That the world not be usurped: Emmanuel Levinas and J.R.R. Tolkien on serving the other as release…
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