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J.R.R. Tolkien's Utopianism and the Classics
Engelsk
Bogcover for J.R.R. Tolkien's Utopianism and the Classics af Dr Hamish Williams, 9781350241466
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Sprog:
Engelsk
Sider:
224
ISBN-13:
9781350241466
Indbinding:
Paperback
ISBN-10:
1350241466
Udg. Dato:
31 okt 2024
Størrelse i cm:
22,9 x 15,0 x 1,0
Oplagsdato:
31 okt 2024
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J.R.R. Tolkien's Utopianism and the Classics

Engelsk
Paperback 2024
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This book opens up new perspectives on the English fantasy writer J.R.R. Tolkien, arguing that he was an influential thinker of utopianism in 20th-century fiction and that his scrutiny of utopias can be assessed through his dialogue with antiquity. Tolkien’s engagement with the ancient world often reflects an interest in retrotopianism: his fictional places – cities, forests, homes – draw on a rich (post-)classical narrative imagination of similar spaces.

Importantly for Tolkien, such narratives entail ‘eutopian’ thought experiments: the decline and fall of distinctly ‘classical’ communities provide an utopian blueprint for future political restorations; the home as oikos becomes a space where an ideal ethical reciprocity between host and guest can be sought; the ‘ancient forest’ is an ambiguous, unsettling site where characters can experience necessary forms of awakening. From these perspectives, tokens of Platonic moderation, Augustan restoration, Homeric xenophilia, and the Ovidian material sublime are evident in Tolkien’s writing. Likewise, his retrotopianism also always entails a rewriting of ancient narratives in post-classical and modern terms. This study then explores how Tolkien’s use of the classical past can help us to align classical and utopian studies, and thus to reflect on the ranges and limits of utopianism in classical literature and thought.

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Specifikationer
Sprog:
Engelsk
Sider:
224
ISBN-13:
9781350241466
Indbinding:
Paperback
ISBN-10:
1350241466
Udg. Dato:
31 okt 2024
Størrelse i cm:
22,9 x 15,0 x 1,0
Oplagsdato:
31 okt 2024
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