J.R.R. Tolkien's Utopianism and the Classics
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Product details:
- Publisher Bloomsbury Academic
- Date of Publication 31 October 2024
- Number of Volumes Paperback
- ISBN 9781350241466
- Binding Paperback
- No. of pages pages
- Size 229x150x10 mm
- Weight 340 g
- Language English 650
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Long description:
This book opens up new perspectives on the English fantasy writer J.R.R. Tolkien, arguing that he was an influential thinker of utopianism in 20th-century fiction and that his scrutiny of utopias can be assessed through his dialogue with antiquity. Tolkien's engagement with the ancient world often reflects an interest in retrotopianism: his fictional places - cities, forests, homes - draw on a rich (post-)classical narrative imagination of similar spaces.
Importantly for Tolkien, such narratives entail 'eutopian' thought experiments: the decline and fall of distinctly 'classical' communities provide an utopian blueprint for future political restorations; the home as oikos becomes a space where an ideal ethical reciprocity between host and guest can be sought; the 'ancient forest' is an ambiguous, unsettling site where characters can experience necessary forms of awakening. From these perspectives, tokens of Platonic moderation, Augustan restoration, Homeric xenophilia, and the Ovidian material sublime are evident in Tolkien's writing. Likewise, his retrotopianism also always entails a rewriting of ancient narratives in post-classical and modern terms. This study then explores how Tolkien's use of the classical past can help us to align classical and utopian studies, and thus to reflect on the ranges and limits of utopianism in classical literature and thought.
Table of Contents:
Acknowledgements
List of Abbreviations
Introduction: Utopianism and Classicism: Tolkien's New/Old Continent
1. Lapsarian Narratives: The Decline and Fall of Utopian Communities in Middle-Earth
2. Hospitality Narratives: The Ideal of the Home in an Odyssean Hobbit
3. Sublime Narratives: Classical Transcendence in Nature and Beyond in The Fellowship of the Ring
Epilogue
Notes
Bibliography
Index
J.R.R. Tolkien's Utopianism and the Classics
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