Tolkien : the forest and the city / Helen Conrad-O'Briain & Gerard Hynes, editors.

Format:

Book

Contributor:

Conrad-O'Briain, Helen, editor.

Hynes, Gerard, editor.

Language:

English

Subjects (All):

Tolkien, J. R. R. (John Ronald Reuel), 1892-1973--Criticism and interpretation.

Tolkien, J. R. R.

Tolkien, J. R. R. (John Ronald Reuel), 1892-1973.

Fantasy fiction, English--History and criticism.

Fantasy fiction, English.

Middle Earth (Imaginary place).

Criticism and interpretation.

Genre:

Criticism, interpretation, etc.

Physical Description:

197 pages : illustrations ; 24 cm

Place of Publication:

Dublin : Four Courts Press, 2013.

Contents:

Introduction / Helen Conrad-O'Briain and Gerard Hynes

Goths and Roman in Tolkien's imagination / Tom Shippey

Civil pleasures in unexpected places: an introduction to the etiquette of Middle-earth / Jane Suzanne Carroll

'Wildman of the woods': inscribing tragedy on the landscape of Middle-earth in The Children of Húrin / Dimitra Fimi

Deeper and deeper into the wood: forests as places of transformation in The Lord of the Rings / Rebecca Merkelbach

The forest and the city: the dichotomy of Tolkien's Istari / Dominika Nycz

'Raw forest' versus 'cooked city'

Lévi Strauss in Middle-earth / Thomas Honegger

'A preference for round windows': hobbits and the Arts and Crafts movement / Karl Kinsella

Fractures, corruption and decay: understanding speculative cities through the imagery of Minas Tirith, Minas Morgul and Metropolis / Jennifer Harwood-Smith

The forests and the trees: Sal and Ian in Faërie / Verlyn Flieger

'The cedar is fallen': empire, deforestation and the fall of Nümenor / Gerard Hynes

'Sacred and of immense antiquity': Tolkien's use of riddles in The Hobbit / Erin Sebo

Less noise, more green: cultural materialism and the reverse discourse of the wild in Tolkien's The Hobbit / Ian Kinane

Tolkien and Dante's earthly paradise: enculturing nature / Alison Milbank

The party tree and its roots in the Spanish Civil War / Meg Black

The tower and the ruin: the past in J.R.R. Tolkien's works / Michael D.C. Drout.

Notes:

Includes bibliographical references and index.

ISBN:

9781846824296

184682429X

OCLC:

870441980