Light beyond all shadow
Subtitle: religious experience in the work of J. R. R. Tolkien
By: edited by Paul E. Kerry and Sandra Miesel
Publisher: Fairleigh Dickinson University Press
Published: 2011
Place of publication: Madison, NJ
Language: eng
Number of pages: 220
ISBN-13: 9781611470109; 9781611476224
Subjects: Religion; History and criticism; Criticism and interpretation; Religion in literature; English Fantasy fiction
Notes: Includes bibliographical references and index.
Table of contents: title: 1 Preface; title: 2 Acknowledgements; title: Chapter 3 Introduction: Exploring Tolkien's Universe; title: Chapter 4 Water, Ecology, and Spirituality in Tolkien's Middle-Earth; title: Chapter 5 Divine Contagion-On the Nature in The Silmarillion and The Lord of the Rings; title: Chapter 6 Reflections of Christendom in the Mythopoeic Iconography of Middle-Earth; title: Chapter 7 The Biblical Structure of The Lord of the Rings; title: Chapter 8 Ymagynatyf and J.R.R. Tolkien's Roman Catholicism, Catholic Theology, Religion in The Lord of the Rings; title: Chapter 9 I am the Song, Music, Poetry, and the Transcendental in J.R.R. Tolkien's Middle-Earth; title: Chapter 10 Tolkien: Lord of the Occult?; title: Chapter 11 The Fantastic Secret of Tolkien's Fairy Tales: Literature and Jesuit Spiritual Exercises; title: Chapter 12 Life-Giving Ladies: Women in the Writings of J.R.R. Tolkien; title: Chapter 13 Where two or three are gathered: Tolkien and the Inklings; title: Chapter 14 Peter Jackson, Evil, and the Temptation of Films at the Cracks of Doom; title: Chapter 15 Songs of Innocence and Experience, or, What Remains of Tolkien's "Catholic" Tale in Jackson's The Lord of Rings; title: 16 Bibliography; title: 17 Biographical Entries