UID:
almahu_9949598583402882
Format:
1 online resource (viii, 188 pages).
ISBN:
9781003407171
,
100340717X
,
9781000958164
,
1000958167
Series Statement:
Routledge studies in speculative literature
Content:
"This volume is a long overdue contribution to the dynamic, but unevenly distributed study of fantasy and J.R.R. Tolkien's legacy in Central Europe. The essays move between and across theories of cultural and social history, reception, adaptation and audience studies, and offer methodological reflections on the various cultural perceptions of Tolkien's oeuvre and its impact on twenty-first century manifestations. They analyse how discourses about fantasy are produced and mediated, and how processes of re-mediation shape our understanding of the historical coordinates and local peculiarities of fantasy in general, and Tolkien in particular, all that in Central Europe in an age of global fandom. The collection examines the entanglement of fantasy and Central European political and cultural shifts across the past 50 years and traces the ways in which its haunting legacy permeates and subverts different modes and aesthetics across different domains from communist times through today's media-saturated culture"--
Note:
Reading Tolkien in Hungary, part I: the 20th century / Gergely Nagy -- Reading Tolkien in Hungary, part II: the 21st century / Gergely Nagy -- Mythologia non grata : Tolkien and socialist Czechoslovakia / Janka Kascakova -- "Through darkness you have come to your hope" : the dynamics of J.R.R. Tolkien's work reception in the Czech context / Tereza Dědinová -- J.R.R. Tolkien in the Slovak press : situation after 1990 / Jozefa Pevčíková , Eva Urbanová -- Unknotting the translation knots in The Hobbit : a diachronic analysis of Slovak translations from 1973 and 2002 / Jela Kehoe -- Growing up in fantasy : inspecting the convergences of young adult literature and fantastic fiction / Martina Vránová -- One does not simply teach fantasy : how students of English and American Studies in Hungary view the genre and Tolkien's legacy / Nikolett Sipos -- From niche to mainstream? : screen culture's impact on contemporary perceptions of fantasy / David Levente Palatinus.
Additional Edition:
Print version: J.R.R. Tolkien in central Europe New York, NY : Routledge, 2024 ISBN 9781032525563
Language:
English
Keywords:
Electronic books.
;
Criticism, interpretation, etc.
DOI:
10.4324/9781003407171
URL:
https://www.taylorfrancis.com/books/9781003407171
