There and Back Again: Tolkien and Greco-Roman Antiquity
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https://doi.org/10.34679/thersites.vol15.228Keywords:
Tolkien, classical receptionAbstract
The following introduction sketches the status questionis of the research on the influence of Greco-Roman antiquity on the works of Tolkien and provides details about the volume’s theoretical impetus and its broad themes. The editors discuss Tolkien’s complicated and indirect relationship with classical models, underscoring certain emergent themes in volume’s contributions, such as decline, multifocal reception and relationship with nature.
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2022-10-27
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