Tolkien and the Classical World

Tolkien and the Classical World, kansi. Kansikuva: Jay Johnstone Kuva: Walking Tree Publishers.

Tolkien and the Classical World on tammikuussa 2021 Cormarë Series -julkaisusarjassa (n:o 45) ilmestynyt, Hamish Williamsin toimittama kokoelma esseitä, jotka käsittelevät klassisen epiikan, mytologian, runouden, historian, filosofian ja draaman sekä klassisten kielten vaikutusta Tolkienin kirjallisuuteen.

Sisällys

• Hamish Williams: Editor's Notes

INTRODUCTION

• Hamish Williams: Classical Tradition, Modern Fantasy, and the Generic Contracts of Readers

SECTION 1: CLASSICAL LIVES AND HISTORIES

• Hamish Williams: Tolkien the Classicist: Scholar and Thinker
• Ross Clare: Greek and Roman Historiographies in Tolkien's Númenor

SECTION 2: ANCIENT EPIC AND MYTH

• Giuseppe Pezzini: The Gods in (Tolkien's) Epic: Classical Patterns of Divine Interaction
• Benjamin Eldon Stevens: Middle-earth as Underworld: From Katabasis to Eucatastrophe
• Austin M. Freeman: Pietas and the Fall of the City: A Neglected Virgilian Influence on Middle-earth's Chief Virtue
• Peter Astrup Sundt: The Love Story of Orpheus and Eurydice in Tolkien's Orphic Middle-earth

SECTION 3: IN DIALOGUE WITH THE GREEK PHILOSOPHERS

• Michael Kleu: Plato's Atlantis and the Post-Platonic Tradition in Tolkien's Downfall of Númenor
• Łukasz Neubauer: Less Consciously at First but More Consciously in the Revision: Plato's Ring of Gyges as a Putative Source of Inspiration for Tolkien's Ring of Power
• Julian Eilmann: Horror and Fury: J.R.R. Tolkien's The Children of Húrin and the Aristotelian Theory of Tragedy

SECTION 4: AROUND THE BORDERS OF THE CLASSICAL WORLD

• Philip Burton: "Eastwards and Southwards": Philological and Historical Perspectives on Tolkien and Classicism
• Richard Z. Gallant: The Noldorization of the Edain: The Roman-Germani Paradigm for the Noldor and Edain in Tolkien's Migration Era
• Juliette Harrisson: "Escape and Consolation": Gondor as the Ancient Mediterranean and Rohan as the Germanic World in The Lord of the Rings

SECTION 5: SHORTER REMARKS AND OBSERVATIONS

• Alley Marie Jordan: Shepherds and the Shire: Classical Pastoralism in Middle-earth
• Oleksandra Filonenko – Vitalii Shchepanskyi: Classical Influences on the Role of Music in Tolkien's Legendarium

AFTERWORD

• D. Graham J. Shipley: Afterword: Tolkien's Response to Classics in Its Wider Context

Bibliografisia tietoja

Tolkien and the Classical World / edited by Hamish Williams. – [Zollikofen] : Walking Tree Publishers, 2021. – 414 s. – (Cormarë Series ; 45)
ISBN 978-3-905703-45-0 (nid.).

Aiheesta muualla

• Artikkeleiden tiivistelmät: Tolkien and the Classical World : Abstracts (Walking Tree Publishers; luettu 7.2.2021).
• Tolkien and the Classical World: Book Discussion (Hamish Williams, YouTube 19.1.2021; luettu 7.2.2019 – Williams keskustelee julkaisusta joidenkin sen kirjoittajien kanssa)

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