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Tolkien and alterity / Christopher Vaccaro, Yvette Kisor, editors.

Vaccaro, Christopher, editor.; Kisor, Yvette, editor.
2017
PR6039.O32
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Title
Tolkien and alterity / Christopher Vaccaro, Yvette Kisor, editors.
ISBN
9783319610184 (electronic book)
331961018X (electronic book)
9783319610177
3319610171
Published
Cham : Palgrave MacMillan, [2017]
Copyright
©2017
Language
English
Description
1 online resource (xii, 270 pages).
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PR6039.O32
Dewey Decimal Classification
823.912
Summary
This exciting collection of essays explores the role of the Other in Tolkien's fiction, his life, and the pertinent criticism. It critically examines issues of gender, sexuality, race and ethnicity, language, and identity in The Lord of the Rings, The Silmarillion, and lesser-known works by Tolkien. The chapters consider characters such as Lobelia Sackville-Baggins, Saruman, Éowyn, and the Orcs as well as discussions of how language and identity function in the source texts. The analysis of Tolkien's work is set against an examination of his life, personal writing, and beliefs. Each essay takes as its central position the idea that how Tolkien responds to that which is different, to that which is “Other,” serves as a register of his ethics and moral philosophy. In the aggregate, they provide evidence of Tolkien's acceptance of alterity.
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Includes bibliographical references and index.
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Vaccaro, Christopher, editor.
Kisor, Yvette, editor.
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New Middle Ages.
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Introduction / Christopher Vaccaro and Yvette Kisor
Queer Tolkien: a bibliographical essay on Tolkien and alterity / Yvette Kisor
Race in Tolkien studies: a bibliographic essay / Robin Anne Reid
Revising Lobelia / Amy Amendt-Raduege
Medieval organicism or modern feminist science? Bombadil, elves, and mother nature / Kristine Larsen
Cinema, sexuality, mechanical reproduction / Valerie Rohy
Saruman's sodomitic resonances: Alain de Lille's De Planctu Naturae and J. R. R. Tolkien's The Lord of the Rings / Christopher Vaccaro
Cruising faery: queer desire in Giles, Niggle, and Smith / Stephen Yandell
Language and alterity in Tolkien and Lévinas / Deidre Dawson
The orcs and the others: familiarity as estrangement in The Lord of the Rings / Verlyn Flieger
Silmarils and obsession: the undoing of Fëanor / Melissa Ruth Arul
The other as Kolbítr: Tolkien's Faramir and Éowyn as Alfred and Æthelflæd / John Holmes.

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