Tolkien and the Classics

Roberto Arduini, Giampaolo Canzonieri & Claudio A. Testi (editors)

Cormarë Series No. 42

The origins of this collection, and of the whole Tolkien and the Classics project, are twofold. First, there is the ever-growing awareness of the importance of making scholars and critics realize how much J.R.R. Tolkien is, in all respects, a great literary classic, comparable to those already accepted as 'canonical'. Second, the desire to offer a publication that could be enjoyed, and made actual use of, by students and teachers of secondary schools and universities. This collection of mainly short essays, each one exploring a parallel between Tolkien and the Classics of Western literature, is divided into three sections:
— Tolkien and Authors from Antiquity (four essays)
— Tolkien and Authors from the Middle Ages (six essays)
— Tolkien and Authors from the Modern Period (eleven essays)

The present volume has its origin in the endeavours of the Study Group organised by the Associazione Italiana Studi Tolkieniani (AIST = Italian Association of Tolkien Studies), a team of scholars who periodically decide on a common topic of research that, as a consequence, will be the subject of meetings in which each contributor presents his or her results to the others. The criticisms, comments, and suggestions provided in these meetings are then taken into account for the revisions and incorporated into the final versions of the essays.

 
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Table of contents

About the Authors

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Roberto Arduini, Giampaolo Canzonieri, & Claudio A. Testi
Introduction

TOLKIEN AND AUTHORS FROM ANTIQUITY

Gloria Larini
Giant, Solitary, and Anarchist. The Trolls in The Hobbit and Polyphemus in the Odyssey

Leonardo Mantovani
Renewing the Epic: Tolkien and Apollonius Rhodius

Gloria Larini
To Die for Love. Female Archetypes in Tolkien and Euripides

Lavinia Scolari
Tolkien and Virgil, Ancient Lore and Literary Inspiration

TOLKIEN AND AUTHORS FROM THE MIDDLE AGES

Valérie Morisi
Stories of Wonders and Wanderings:
The Hobbit and The Travels of Marco Polo

Claudio A. Testi
Tolkien and Aquinas

Elisa Sicuri
Tolkien and Malory: Writing a Mythology for England

Chiara Bertoglio
Dante, Tolkien, and the Supreme Harmony

Tânia P. Azevedo
Gawain vs. Gauvain: Tolkien and Chr´tien de Troyes

Roberto Arduini
The Innkeeper and the Miller: Common Folks in Chaucer and Tolkien

TOLKIEN AND AUTHORS FROM THE MODERN PERIOD

Amelia A. Rutledge
Tolkien and Sir Walter Scott:
Critiques of the Chivalric/Heroic Imaginary

Luisa Paglieri
Tolkien and Shakespeare: Debtor Against His Will

Sara Gianotto
Tolkien and Alfieri. Fëanor and the Characters of Alfierian Tragedy

Cecilia Barella
Tolkien and Grahame

Andrea Monda
Tolkien and Manzoni

Melissa Ruth Arul
The Yoke of Pride and Shame:
Joseph Conrad’s Lord Jim and J.R.R. Tolkien's Túrin Turambar

Chiara Nejrotti
From Neverland to Middle-earth

Giampaolo Canzonieri
The Hobbit and the Puppet:
Two Protagonists Journeying into Opposite Directions

Simone Bonechi
Tolkien and the War Poets

Barbara Sanguineti
With Light Step Through the Threshold:
Female characters, the Gothic, and the meditatio mortis in Tolkien and Poe

Tom Shippey
William Morris and Tolkien: Some Unexpected Connections

 
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Cover illustartion by Anke Eissmann

 
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Announcements

Many book reviews (12th April 2023)
Book reviews in Fafnir (6th April 2023)
Many reviews (17th July 2020)
Tolkien and the Classics published (7th August 2019)

 
245 pages, Walking Tree Publishers 2019, Cormarë Series No. 42, Editors: Roberto Arduini, Giampaolo Canzonieri & Claudio A. Testi , ISBN: 978-3905703-42-9.
 

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