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Author:   Robert T. Tally Jr.
Publisher:   Springer International Publishing AG
Imprint:   Palgrave Macmillan
Edition:   1st ed. 2022
Weight:   0.173kg
ISBN:  

9783031112652

ISBN 10:   3031112652
Pages:   101
Publication Date:   19 September 2022
Audience:   Professional and scholarly ,  Professional & Vocational
Format:   Paperback
Publisher's Status:   Active
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Table of Contents

Preface and Acknowledgements 1. Introduction: In a hole in the ground . . .             There and Back Again             A Hobbit in All But Size             The Fish Out of Water 2. The Way to Talk to Dragons: Interpellation, Style, and Narrative Form             A Silliness of Manner             “Praps we sits here and chats”             From a Mythic to a Historical Mode 3. Nasty Disturbing Uncomfortable Things: The Intrusions of History             A Waverley of the Shire             The Vanishing Mediator; or, the Uses of Anachronism             The Seamless Web of Story             Bringing It All Back Home 4. Show Me Now Your Map: Towards a Literary Cartography of Middle-earth             Thrór’s Map: The Hidden Entrance to Middle-earth             The Edge of the Wild             Roads Go Ever Ever On             Plus Ultra: Gandalf’s Peregrinations 5. More Dangerous and Less Wise: Race, Class, and the Geopolitical Order             What is a Race?             Good People and Decent Enough People             Cruel, Wicked, and Bad-Hearted             Dragon Sickness 6. Conclusion: Quite a little fellow in a wide world Bibliography Index

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“Tolkien’s The Hobbit: Realizing History Through Fantasy … takes readers on a fantastic journey through Middle-earth, providing both casual readers with a primer that summarizes much of Tolkien’s personal history and the novel itself and novice and seasoned Tolkien scholars with an introduction and roadmap into new areas of Tolkien studies.” (Bianca Beronio, Mythlore, Vol. 42 (2), April, 2024)

Author Information

Robert T. Tally Jr. is a Professor of English at Texas State University, USA. His books include For a Ruthless Critique of All That Exists: Literature in an Age of Capitalist Realism (2022), Topophrenia: Place, Narrative, and the Spatial Imagination (2019), and Fredric Jameson: The Project of Dialectical Criticism (2014).

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