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2004-06-20
Title
Recovery and Transcendence for the Contemporary Mythmaker: The S
ISBN
9783952142486
Publication Year
2004
Format
Paperback
Language
English
Book Title
Recovery and Transcendence for the Contemporary Mythmaker: The Spiritual Dimension in the Works of J. R. R. Tolkien
Item Height
234mm
Author
C. Garbowski
Publisher
Walking Tree Publication
Genre
Fantasy
Topic
Literature, Books
Item Width
156mm
Item Weight
321g
Number of Pages
224 Pages

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[Recovery and Transcendence for the Contemporary Mythmaker] is one of the most persuasive and open-minded of the various appropriations of Tolkien to a religious or spiritual meaning. [...] At its heart is the anti-reductionist psychological/religious theory of the concentration camp survivor, Viktor Frankl. Frankl explains human motivation primarily as a quest for meaning, a response to the 'pull' of discerned values, rather than as wholly determined by the 'push' of instinctual drives: through this quest, human 'growth' is possible even in the most dire circumstances. Such features of Tolkien's work as his theory and practice of 'eucatastrophe', the morally fitting happy ending in the face of great adversity which vouchsafes a glimpse of transcendent joy, and his conception of art as a mode of 'recovery', whereby the too-familiar known world is seen afresh 'as we were meant to see it', are assimilated to Frankl's view, as is the exploratory, developmental, 'dialogic' quality of Tolkien's myth-making. But Garbowski draws on many sources, from folklore to Hollywood, and ranges widely through Tolkien's writing, alert always to the ethical and spiritual implications of the protagonist's predicaments. The book is of additional interest as an example of the significant response to Tolkien in Eastern Europe, a response based on his celebration of small, imperilled homelands and his sombre awareness of contemporary evil, as well as on his implicitly Christian values. From ABES Annotated Bibliography of English Studies Christopher Garbowski is Associate Professor at the Institute of English at Maria Curie Skodowska University in Lublin, Poland. He is the author of Krzysztof Kieslowski's Decalogue Series (1996).

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Walking Tree Publication
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Book Title
Recovery and Transcendence for the Contemporary Mythmaker: The Spiritual Dimension in the Works of J. R. R. Tolkien
Author
C. Garbowski
Format
Paperback
Language
English
Topic
Literature, Books
Publication Year
2004
Genre
Fantasy
Number of Pages
224 Pages

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234mm
Item Width
156mm
Item Weight
321g

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C. Garbowski
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