J.R.R. Tolkien in Central Europe context, directions, and the legacy
"This volume is a long overdue contribution to the dynamic, but unevenly distributed study of fantasy and J.R.R. Tolkien's legacy in Central Europe. The essays move between and across theories of cultural and social history, reception, adaptation and audience studies, and offer methodologi...
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| Sprache: | eng |
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New York, London
Routledge
2024
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| Schriftenreihe: | Routledge studies in speculative literature
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Tag hinzufügen | Zusammenfassung: | "This volume is a long overdue contribution to the dynamic, but unevenly distributed study of fantasy and J.R.R. Tolkien's legacy in Central Europe. The essays move between and across theories of cultural and social history, reception, adaptation and audience studies, and offer methodological reflections on the various cultural perceptions of Tolkien's oeuvre and its impact on twenty-first century manifestations. They analyse how discourses about fantasy are produced and mediated, and how processes of re-mediation shape our understanding of the historical coordinates and local peculiarities of fantasy in general, and Tolkien in particular, all that in Central Europe in an age of global fandom. The collection examines the entanglement of fantasy and Central European political and cultural shifts across the past 50 years and traces the ways in which its haunting legacy permeates and subverts different modes and aesthetics across different domains from communist times through today's media-saturated culture"-- |
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| Beschreibung: | viii, 188 Seiten |
| ISBN: | 9781032525563 978-1-032-52556-3 9781032525587 978-1-032-52558-7 |