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Tolkien, Self and Other - "This Queer Creature" (Paperback, 1st ed. 2016)
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Tolkien, Self and Other - "This Queer Creature" (Paperback, 1st ed. 2016)
Series: The New Middle Ages
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This 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.
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