Defending Middle-earth: Tolkien: Myth and Modernity
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Patrick Curry. Defending Middle-earth: Tolkien: Myth and Modernity
DEFENDING. MIDDLE-EARTH: Tolkien: Myth and Modernity. Patrick Curry
Table of Contents
Preface
· 1 · INTRODUCTION: RADICAL NOSTALGIA
The Story
Readers vs. Critics
Postmodernity in Middle-earth
Middle-earth in Postmodernity
Three Worlds in One
A Mythology for England?
A Great Book?
· 2 · THE SHIRE: CULTURE, SOCIETY AND POLITICS
Englishness
Country Folk
Nation and Class
A Pastoral Fantasy?
Fascist?
Politics in Middle-earth
Radical Nostalgia
Activum
‘Escapism’
· 3 · MIDDLE-EARTH: NATURE AND ECOLOGY
Place
Nature in Middle-earth
Forests, Woods and Trees
The War on Trees
The Tree of Life
Tolkien and Trees
The Ring
Magic vs. Enchantment
The Ring as Megamachine
Mordor on Earth
The War on Life
Selling Ourselves
On ‘Sentimentality’
Life’s a Beech
Save Us from the Experts
· 4 · THE SEA: SPIRITUALITY AND ETHICS
The ‘Problem’ of Evil
Death
Luck, Fate, Providence
A Christian Work?
A Pagan Work?
Wizards and Stars
All and None
Post-Christian/Neo-Pagan/New Times
From Religion to Myth to Fantasy
· 5 · FANTASY, LITERATURE AND THE MYTHOPOEIC IMAGINATION
Loss and Consolation
Myth
Local Mythology
Universal Myth
Back to Myth
Other Approaches to Myth
Story
Fantasy
The Lord of the Rings as Fantasy
Disney World
Angela Carter
Discworld
Tolkien’s True Company
· 6 · CONCLUSION: HOPE WITHOUT GUARANTEES
The Elements
Place
Wonder
Hope
AFTERWORD
About the Author
References. 1. Introduction
2. The Shire: Culture, Society and Politics
3. Middle-earth: Nature and Ecology
4. The Sea: Spirituality and Ethics
5. Fantasy, Literature and the Mythopoeic Imagination
6. Conclusion: Hope without Guarantees
Afterword
Bibliography
Index
In Praise of Defending Middle-earth
Copyright
About the Publisher
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Preface
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· 4 · THE SEA: SPIRITUALITY AND ETHICS
The ‘Problem’ of Evil
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