Defending Middle-earth: Tolkien, Myth and ModernityHoughton Mifflin Harcourt, 2004 - 198 pàgines What are millions of readers all over the world getting out of reading The Lord of the Rings? Newly reissued with a new afterword, Patrick Curry's Defending Middle-earth argues, in part, that Tolkien has found a way to provide something close to spirit in a secular age. His focus is on three main aspects of Tolkien's fiction: the social and political structure of Middle-earth and how the varying cultures within it find common cause in the face of a shared threat; the nature and ecology of Middle-earth and how what we think of as the natural world joins the battle against mindless, mechanized destruction; and the spirituality and ethics of Middle-earth, for which Curry provides a particularly insightful and resonant examination that will deepen the understanding of the millions of fans who have taken The Lord of the Rings to heart. |
Continguts
Introduction Radical Nostalgia | 1 |
The Story | 3 |
Readers vs Critics | 5 |
Postmodernity in Middleearth | 10 |
Middleearth in Postmodernity | 13 |
Three Worlds in One | 16 |
A Mythology for England? | 20 |
A Great Book? | 23 |
The Sea Spirituality and Ethics | 87 |
The Problem of Evil | 88 |
Death | 91 |
Luck Fate Providence | 94 |
A Christian Work? | 96 |
A Pagan Work? | 98 |
Wizards and Stars | 101 |
All and None | 103 |
The Shire Culture Society and Politics | 24 |
Englishness | 26 |
Country Folk | 27 |
Nation and Class | 29 |
A Pastoral Fantasy? | 33 |
Fascist? | 36 |
Politics in Middleearth | 37 |
Radical Nostalgia | 42 |
Activism | 43 |
Escapism | 45 |
MiddleEarth Nature and Ecology | 48 |
Place | 49 |
Nature in Middleearth | 50 |
Forests Woods and Trees | 51 |
The War on Tree | 53 |
The Tree of Life | 55 |
Tolkien and Trees | 58 |
The Ring | 60 |
Magic vs Enchantment | 61 |
The Ring as Megamachine | 65 |
Mordor on Earth | 69 |
The War on Life | 72 |
Selling Ourselves | 74 |
On Sentimentality | 76 |
Lifes a Beech | 78 |
Save Us from the Experts | 83 |
PostChristianNeoPaganNew Times | 106 |
From Religion to Myth to Fantasy | 110 |
Fantasy Literature and the Mythopoeic Imagination | 112 |
Loss and Consolation | 114 |
Myth | 118 |
Local Mythology | 119 |
Universal Myth | 121 |
Back to Myth | 123 |
Other Approaches to Myth | 125 |
Story | 127 |
Fantasy | 129 |
The Lord of the Rings as Fantasy | 131 |
Disney World | 133 |
Angela Carter | 135 |
Discworld | 137 |
Conclusion Hope without Guarantees | 139 |
The Elements | 141 |
Place | 143 |
Wonder | 146 |
Hope | 148 |
Afterword | 151 |
References | 161 |
Bibliography | 191 |
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