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The Lord of the Rings and the
Western Narrative Tradition
Martin Simonson
When The Lord of the Rings was published in the 1950´s it did not sit comfortably among any preconceived notions of literary genre. The critical responses reflected the confusion: for some, it was an unwelcome reappearance of narrative standards that modernism was supposed to have done away with, or just a bad novel. Others considered it a refreshing... (read more)
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