Tolkien and the classical world /

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Publisher: Walking Tree Publishers,

Publication date: 2021,

Material Format: Paper

Capacity, size, etc.: xxvi, 414 pages ; ; 24 cm

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Note (General)：: Introduction. Classical tradition, modern fantasy, and the generic contracts of readers / Hamish Williams -- Section 1 : Classical lives and histories...

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東京都立中央図書館
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Material Type: 図書
ISBN: 3905703459 (paperback)
9783905703450 (paperback)
Title: Tolkien and the classical world /
Publication, Distribution, etc.: Zurich : : Walking Tree Publishers,
Publication Date: 2021,
Extent: xxvi, 414 pages ; ; 24 cm
Contributor: edited by Hamish Williams.
Text Language Code: eng
NDC 10th ed.: 930.278 : English and American literature
Target Audience: 一般
Note (General): Introduction. Classical tradition, modern fantasy, and the generic contracts of readers / Hamish Williams -- Section 1 : Classical lives and histories. Tolkien the classicist : scholar and thinker / Hamish Williams -- Greek and Roman historiographies in Tolkien's Númenor / Ross Clare -- Section 2 : Ancient epic and myth. The gods in (Tolkien's) Epic : classical patterns of divine interaction / Giuseppe Pezzini -- Middle-earth as underworld : from katabasis to eucatasrophre / Benjamin Eldon Stevens -- Pietas and the fall of the city : a neglected Virgilian influence on Middle-earth's chief virtue / Austin M. Freeman -- The love story of Orpheus and Eurydice in Tolkien's Oprhic Middle-earth / Peter Astrup Sundt -- Section 3 : In dialogue with the Greek philosophers. Plato's Atlantis and the post-Platonic tradition in Tolkien's downfall of Númenor / Michael Kleu -- Less consciously at first but more consciously in the revision : Plato's Ring of Gyges as a putative source of inspiration for Tolkien's ring of power / Łukasz Neubauer -- Horror and fury : J.R.R. Tolkien's The Children of Húrin and the Aristotelian theory of tragedy / Julian Eilmann -- Section 4 : Around the borders of the classical world. "Eastwards and Southwards" : philological and historical perspectives on Tolkien and classicism / Philip Burton -- The Noldorization of the Edain : the Roman-Germani paradigm for the Noldor and Edain in Tolkien's migration era / Richard Z. Gallant -- "Escape and consolation" : Gondor as the ancient Mediterranean and Rohan as the Germanic world in The Lord of the Rings / Juliette Harrisson -- Section 5 : Shorter remarks and observations. Shepherds and the Shire : classical pastoralism in Middle-earth / Alley Marie Jordan -- Classical influences on the role of music in Tolkien's legendarium / Oleksandra Filonenko and Vitalii Shchepanskyi -- Afterword. Tolkien's response to classics in its wider context / D. Graham Shipley.
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Call No.: 930.2-T64-T5
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7115750826
OCLC No.: (OCoLC)1237352408
https://www.worldcat.org/oclc/(OCoLC)1237352408