Defending Middle-Earth: Tolkien: Myth and Modernity

by Patrick Curry

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What are millions of readers all over the world getting out of reading The Lord of the Rings? Newly reissued with a new afterword, Patrick Curry's Defending Middle-earth argues, in part, that Tolkien has found a way to provide something close to spirit in a secular age. His focus is on three main aspects of Tolkien's fiction: the social and political structure of Middle-earth and how the varying cultures within it find common cause in the face...

Format:Paperback

Language:English

ISBN:061847885X

ISBN13:9780618478859

Release Date:October 2004

Publisher:Houghton Mifflin

Length:198 Pages

Weight:0.98 lbs.

Dimensions:0.5" x 5.5" x 8.2"

Related Subjects

Criticism & Theory Education & Reference Fantasy Folklore & Mythology History & Criticism Literary Criticism Literary Criticism & Collections Literature & Fiction Movements & Periods Politics & Social Sciences Science Fiction Science Fiction & Fantasy Social Sciences

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