J.R.R. Tolkien's Sanctifying Myth: Understanding Middle Earth - Tapa blanda

Birzer, Bradley J.

 
9781684515356: J.R.R. Tolkien's Sanctifying Myth: Understanding Middle Earth
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ISBN 10: 1684515351 ISBN 13: 9781684515356
Editorial: Regnery Publishing Inc, 2023

Sinopsis

With a new introduction by the author

Peter Jackson's film version of J.R.R. Tolkien's Lord of the Rings trilogy - and the accompanying Rings-related paraphernalia and publicity - has played a unique role in the disemmination of Tolkien's imaginative creation to the masses. Yet, for most readers and viewers, the underlying meaning of Middle-earth has remained obscure. Bradley Birzer has remedied that with this fresh study. In J.R.R. Tolkien's Sanctifying Myth: Understanding Middle-earth, Birzer reveals the surprisingly specific religious symbolism that permeates Tolkien's Middle-earth legendarium. He also explores the social and political views that motivated the Oxford don, ultimately situating Tolkien within the Christian humanist tradition represented by Thomas More and T.S. Eliot, Dante and C.S. Lewis. Birzer argues that through the genre of myth Tolkien created a world that is essentially truer than the one we think we see around us everyday, a world that transcends the colorless disenchantment of our postmodern age.

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Acerca del autor

Bradley J. Birzer holds the Russell Amos Kirk Chair in History at Hillsdale College. The author or editor of four other books, he has written and taught extensively on the American experience. Birzer also serves as chairman of the board of academic advisors for the Center for the American Idea in Houston and as a nonresident fellow for the McConnell Center, University of Louisville. He and his family live in Michigan.

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Editorial
Regnery Publishing Inc
Año de publicación
2023
Idioma
Inglés
ISBN 10 
1684515351
ISBN 13 
9781684515356
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Número de páginas
256
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