J.R.R. Tolkien's Sanctifying Myth: Understanding Middle Earth - Couverture rigide

Birzer, Bradley J.

Couverture rigide

ISBN 10 : 1882926846 ISBN 13 : 9781882926848

Editeur : ISI Books, 2002

Synopsis

In J.R.R. Tolkien's Sanctifying Myth: Understanding Middle-earth, Birzer reveals the surprisingly 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.

A propos du livre

À propos de l?auteur

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.

Détails de l'édition

• Éditeur: ISI Books
• Date d'édition: 2002
• Langue: anglais
• ISBN 10: 1882926846
• ISBN 13: 9781882926848
• Reliure: Relié
• Nombre de pages: 255
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