Binding them all
Subtitle: interdisciplinary perspectives on J.R.R. Tolkien and his works
By: edited by Monika Kirner-Ludwig, Stephan Köser & Sebastian Streitberger
Series: Cormarë Series -- no. 37; Cormarë series -- no. 37.
Publisher: Walking Tree Publishers
Published: 2017
Place of publication: Zurich
Language: eng
Number of pages: 339
ISBN-13: 9783905703375
Subjects: Criticism and interpretation
Description: Selected papers from a Tolkien lectures series at the University of Augsburg in 2014, each touching on the interdisciplinary potential of Tolkien's work in the fields of literature, linguistics, geography, history, communications, and cultural studies.
Notes: Includes bibliographical references.
Table of contents: title: The Tolkien journey at the University of Augsburg  -- Stephan Köser (with Monika Kirner-Ludwig & Sebastian Streitberger); title: Meet the professor  -- Thomas Honegger; title: A meta-pragmatic and discourse-analytical approach to Tolkien's Beowulf. The Monsters and the critics : a deliberate look at its edges not its center  -- Monica Kirner-Ludwig; title: One trailer to bring them all and i the darkness bind them? - The Lord of the RIngs trailers and their communicative functions  -- Heike Krebs; title: Searching "For a better rhythm, or a better word or phrase" : J.R.R. Tolkien's re-telling of the legend of King Arthur in alliterative metre  -- Birgit Schwan; title: Wounds that can(not) be wholly cured : ecopsychology, solastalgia and mental sustainability in J.R.R. Tolkien's The Lord of the Rings  -- Heike Schwarz; title: Ethereal elvish and horrid Orkish : an attempt to capture J.R.R. Tolkien's controversial theory of linguistic aesthetics and phonetic fitness  -- Magdalena Spachmann; title: Concepts of space in Middle-earth's landscapes or the potential of fantasy and film for school geography  -- Sebastian Streitberger; title: Insights into mapping the imagined world of J.R.R. Tolkien  -- Sabine TImpf; title: How J.R.R. Tolkien used kennings to make The Lord of the Rings into a medieval epic for the 20th century  -- Carolin Tober; title: Exploring the linguistic past through the work(s) of J.R.R. Tolkien : some points of orientation from English language history  -- Oliver M. Traxel; title: Tolkien's green man : the racialised cultural other within and green spaces in The Lord of the RIngs -- Christine Vogt-WIlliam.