Tolkien
Subtitle: the forest and the city
By: Helen Conrad-O'Briain & Gerard Hynes, editors
Publisher: Four Courts Press
Published: 2013
Place of publication: Dublin
Language: eng
Number of pages: 197
ISBN-13: 9781846824296
Subjects: Criticism and interpretation; English Fantasy fiction; History and criticism; Middle Earth (Imaginary place)
Notes: Includes bibliographical references and index.
Table of contents: title: Introduction / -- Helen Conrad-O'Briain and Gerard Hynes; title: Goths and Roman in Tolkien's imagination  -- Tom Shippey; title: Civil pleasures in unexpected places: an introduction to the etiquette of Middle-earth  -- Jane Suzanne Carroll; title: 'Wildman of the woods': inscribing tragedy on the landscape of Middle-earth in The Children of Húrin  -- Dimitra Fimi; title: Deeper and deeper into the wood: forests as places of transformation in The Lord of the Rings  -- Rebecca Merkelbach; title: The forest and the city: the dichotomy of Tolkien's Istari  -- Dominika Nycz; title: 'Raw forest' versus 'cooked city' - Lévi Strauss in Middle-earth  -- Thomas Honegger; title: 'A preference for round windows': hobbits and the Arts and Crafts movement  -- Karl Kinsella; title: Fractures, corruption and decay: understanding speculative cities through the imagery of Minas Tirith, Minas Morgul and Metropolis  -- Jennifer Harwood-Smith; title: The forests and the trees: Sal and Ian in Faërie  -- Verlyn Flieger; title: 'The cedar is fallen': empire, deforestation and the fall of Nümenor  -- Gerard Hynes; title: 'Sacred and of immense antiquity': Tolkien's use of riddles in The Hobbit  -- Erin Sebo; title: Less noise, more green: cultural materialism and the reverse discourse of the wild in Tolkien's The Hobbit  -- Ian Kinane; title: Tolkien and Dante's earthly paradise: enculturing nature  -- Alison Milbank; title: The party tree and its roots in the Spanish Civil War  -- Meg Black; title: The tower and the ruin: the past in J.R.R. Tolkien's works -- Michael D.C. Drout.