Revêtant un caractère interdisciplinaire, Tolkien the Medievalist fournit une nouvelle perspective sur le médiévalisme de Tolkien. En quinze essais, d'éminents chercheurs explorent la manière dont le professeur Tolkien a répondu à un âge moderne de crise historique, académique et personnelle, en adaptant son érudition en littérature médiévale à sa propre voix personnelle. Les quatre sections révèlent l'auteur influencé par sa profession, la foi religieuse et les questions importantes de l'époque ; par ses relations avec les autres médiévistes ; par les sources médiévales qu'il a lu et enseigné et par son propre mythification médiévale.
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Acknowledgments
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Part I J.R.R. Tolkien as a medieval scholar: modern contexts
“An industrious little devil” F.V. Gordon as friend and collaborator with Tolkien - Douglas A. Anderson
“There would always be a fairy-tale”: J.R.R. Tolkien and the folklore controversy - Verlyn Flieger
A kind of mid-wife: J.R.R. Tolkien and C.S. Lewis sharing influence - Andrew Lazo
“I wish to speak”: Tolkien's voice in his Beowulf essay
Middle-earth, the Middle Ages, and the Aryan nation: myth and history in the World War II - Christine Chism
Part II J.R.R. Tolkien's The Lord of the Rings and medieval literary and mythological texts/contexts
Tolkien's Wild Men: from medieval to modern - Verlyn Flieger
The valkyrie reflex in J.R.R. Tolkien's The Lord of the Rings. Galadriel, Shelob, Éowyn, and Arwen - Leslie A. Donovan
Exilic imagining in The Seafarer and The Lord of the Rings - Miranda Wilcox
“Oathbreakers, why have ye come?”: Tolkien's “Passing of the Grey Compagny” and the twelfth-century Exercitus mortuorum - Margaret A. Sinex
Part III J.R.R. Tolkien: The texts/contexts of medieval patristics, theology, and iconography
Augustine in the cottage of lost play: the Ainulindalë as asterisk cosmogony - John William Houghton
The “music of the spheres”: relationships between Tolkien's The Silmarillion and medieval cosmological and religious theory - Bradford Lee Eden
The anthropology of Arda: creation, theology, and the race of Men - Jonathan Evans
“A land without stain”: medieval images of Mary and theur use in the characterization of Galadriel - Michael W. Maher, S.J.
Part IV J.R.R.Tolkien's Silmarillion mythology: medievalized retextualization and theory
The great chain of reading: (inter)-textual relations and the technique of mythopoesis in the Túrin story - Gergely Nagy
Real-world myth in a secondary world: mythological aspects in the story of Beren and Lúthien - Richard C. West