Defending Middle-Earth
Defending Middle-earth: Tolkien: Myth and Modernity is a book by Patrick Curry on the works of J.R.R. Tolkien, particularly the spiritual and ecological worldviews implicitly contained in The Lord of the Rings.
From the Publisher
First Edition
Second Edition
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
- — Activism
- — "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 Mega-machine
- — 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
Referencias
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