Fantasy of J. R. R. Tolkien : Mythopoeia and the Recovery of Creation by Robert J. Dobie (2024, Trade Paperback)
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PublisherCatholic University of America Press
ISBN-100813238153
ISBN-139780813238159
eBay Product ID (ePID)9067060520
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Number of Pages268 Pages
Publication NameFantasy of J. R. R. Tolkien : Mythopoeia and the Recovery of Creation
LanguageEnglish
Publication Year2024
SubjectReligious, Christianity / Literature & the Arts
TypeTextbook
Subject AreaReligion, Philosophy
AuthorRobert J. Dobie
FormatTrade Paperback
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Item Height0.8 in
Item Weight5.4 Oz
Item Length8.5 in
Item Width5.5 in
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Intended AudienceScholarly & Professional
LCCN2024-014502
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ReviewsDobie's extensive philosophical discussion of recovery in several areas?language, nature, hope, etc.?is, I believe, an original contribution to studies of Tolkien. The principal audience is Christian readers of Tolkien. A secondary audience may be academ|9780813238159|
SynopsisAt the heart of Tolkienian fantasy is "recovery," a "cleaning of the windows" of our perception that we may learn to see the world again in all its strange and bewildering beauty. And, for Tolkien, to recover the world anew is to recover a sense of the world as a meaningful act of creation by a living and loving Creator. How does Tolkien accomplish this? Through "sub-creation" or mythopoeia , the "fashioning of myth." For it is in creating an imaginary world ourselves through poetry, fairy-story and myth that we come to "see" our "primary world" as itself an act of creation. In short, mythopoetic creation, far from being "lies breathed through silver," uncovers for us the truth of our world as a story of creation. This book is the first sustained attempt to show not only the centrality of recovery to Tolkien's fantasy but the way in which his fantasy affects that primal recovery in every reader. In doing so, this book not only reveals the marvelous philosophical and theological riches that underlie Tolkien's fantasy but shows how his mythopoetic fiction allows the recovery and enactment of these riches in our own lives. In these pages we learn how Tolkien's fantasy addresses fundamental problems such as the relation of language to reality, the nature of evil, the distinction between time and eternity and its relation to death and immortality, the paradox of necessity and free will in human action and the grounds for providential hope in a "happy ending." Indeed, The Fantasy of J.R.R. Tolkien shows how for Tolkien fantasy has within itself a healing power through which intellectual, moral and existential paradoxes are resolved and our intellectual and perceptual faculties are made whole again so that they may participate with renewed vigor in the life-giving work of creation of every sort., The first sustained attempt to show not only the centrality of recovery to Tolkien's fantasy but the way in which his fantasy affects that primal recovery in every reader. In doing so, this book shows how his mythopoetic fiction allows the recovery and enactment of these riches in our own lives.
LC Classification NumberPR6039.O32Z6374 2024
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