LEADER 04618nam 22006855 450 001 9910154849203321 005 20200706035012.0 010 $a1-137-39896-5 024 7 $a10.1057/978-1-137-39896-3 035 $a(CKB)4340000000018283 035 $a(DE-He213)978-1-137-39896-3 035 $a(MiAaPQ)EBC4747296 035 $a(EXLCZ)994340000000018283 100 $a20161123d2016 u| 0 101 0 $aeng 135 $aurnn|008mamaa 181 $ctxt$2rdacontent 182 $cc$2rdamedia 183 $acr$2rdacarrier 200 10$aTolkien, Self and Other $e"This Queer Creature" /$fby Jane Chance 205 $a1st ed. 2016. 210 1$aNew York :$cPalgrave Macmillan US :$cImprint: Palgrave Macmillan,$d2016. 215 $a1 online resource (XXXII, 290 p.) 225 1 $aThe New Middle Ages 311 $a1-137-39895-7 320 $aIncludes bibliographical references and index. 327 $aIntroduction: ?This Queer Creature? -- Chapter 1: Forlorn and Abject: Tolkien and His Earliest Writings (1914-1924) -- Chapter 2: Bilbo as Sigurd in the Fairy-Story Hobbit (1920-1927) -- Chapter 3: Tolkien's Fairy-Story Beowulfs (1926-1940s) -- Chapter 4: ?Queer Endings? After Beowulf: The Fall of Arthur (1931-1934) -- Chapter 5: Apartheid in Tolkien: Chaucer and The Lord of the Rings, Books 1-3 -- Chapter 6: ?Usually Slighted?: Gudrún, Other Medieval Women, and The Lord of the Rings, Book 3 (1925-1943) -- Chapter 7: The Failure of Masculinity: The Homecoming of Beorhtnoth (1920), Sir Gawain (1925), and The Lord of the Rings, Books 3-6 (1943-1948) -- Conclusion: The Ennoblement of the Humble: The History of Middle-earth. 330 $aThis book examines key points of J. R. R. Tolkien?s life and writing career in relation to his views on humanism and feminism, particularly his sympathy for and toleration of those who are different, deemed unimportant, or marginalized?namely, the Other. Jane Chance argues such empathy derived from a variety of causes ranging from the loss of his parents during his early life to a consciousness of the injustice and violence in both World Wars. As a result of his obligation to research and publish in his field and propelled by his sense of abjection and diminution of self, Tolkien concealed aspects of the personal in relatively consistent ways in his medieval adaptations, lectures, essays, and translations, many only recently published. These scholarly writings blend with and relate to his fictional writings in various ways depending on the moment at which he began teaching, translating, or editing a specific medieval work and, simultaneously, composing a specific poem, fantasy, or fairy-story. What Tolkien read and studied from the time before and during his college days at Exeter and continued researching until he died opens a door into understanding how he uniquely interpreted and repurposed the medieval in constructing fantasy. 410 0$aThe New Middle Ages 606 $aLiterature?Philosophy 606 $aCulture?Study and teaching 606 $aBritish literature 606 $aLiterature, Modern?20th century 606 $aFiction 606 $aLiterature?History and criticism 606 $aLiterary Theory$3https://scigraph.springernature.com/ontologies/product-market-codes/812000 606 $aCultural Theory$3https://scigraph.springernature.com/ontologies/product-market-codes/411130 606 $aBritish and Irish Literature$3https://scigraph.springernature.com/ontologies/product-market-codes/833000 606 $aTwentieth-Century Literature$3https://scigraph.springernature.com/ontologies/product-market-codes/822000 606 $aFiction$3https://scigraph.springernature.com/ontologies/product-market-codes/825000 606 $aLiterary History$3https://scigraph.springernature.com/ontologies/product-market-codes/813000 608 $aCriticism, interpretation, etc.$2fast 615 0$aLiterature?Philosophy. 615 0$aCulture?Study and teaching. 615 0$aBritish literature. 615 0$aLiterature, Modern?20th century. 615 0$aFiction. 615 0$aLiterature?History and criticism. 615 14$aLiterary Theory. 615 24$aCultural Theory. 615 24$aBritish and Irish Literature. 615 24$aTwentieth-Century Literature. 615 24$aFiction. 615 24$aLiterary History. 676 $a801 700 $aChance$b Jane$4aut$4http://id.loc.gov/vocabulary/relators/aut$0188272 906 $aBOOK 912 $a9910154849203321 996 $aTolkien, Self and Other$92536798 997 $aUNINA