Tolkien’s Modern Reading: Middle-earth Beyond the Middle Ages
Tolkien’s Modern Reading: Middle-earth Beyond the Middle Ages
Autor: Holly Ordway
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Editor: Word on Fire Academic
Lugar de publicación: Des Plaines, IL
Descripción física: 382 p. il. y fot. col. y bl. y n.
Soporte: Monografía
Idioma: Inglés
Publicación: Des Plaines, IL
ISBN: 978-1-943243-72-3
Notas: 'Tolkien's Modern Reading' addresses the claim that Tolkien read very little modern fiction, and took no serious notice of it. This claim, made by one of his first biographers, has led to the widely accepted view that Tolkien was dismissive of modern culture, and that 'The Hobbit' and 'The Lord of the Rings' are fundamentally medieval and nostalgic in their inspiration. In fact, as Holly Ordway demonstrates in this major corrective, Tolkien enjoyed a broad range of contemporary works, engaged with them in detail and depth, and even named specific titles as sources for and influences upon his creation of Middle-earth.Drawing on meticulous archival research, Ordway shows how Tolkien appreciated authors as diverse as James Joyce and Beatrix Potter, Rider Haggard and Edith Nesbit, William Morris and Kenneth Grahame. She surveys the work of figures such as S.R. Crockett and J.H. Shorthouse, who are forgotten now but made a significant impression on Tolkien. He even read Americans like Longfellow and Sinclair Lewis, assimilating what he read in characteristically complex ways, both as positive example and as influence-by-opposition.
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