期刊名称：E-Fabulations : e-Journal of Children's Literature
电子版ISSN：1646-8880
出版年度：2008
卷号：02
出版社：Universidade do Porto
摘要：The editors of this collection of essays state in their introduction that the project “grew out of the wish to further the exploration of Tolkien as a ‘contemporary writer’, i.e. an author whose literary creations can be seen as a response to the challenges of the modern world.” The approach is not new – both Tom Shippey (J.R.R Tolkien: Author of the Century) and Brian Rosebury (Tolkien: A Cultural Phenomenon) have previously written significant studies on the subject – but the essays contained in these two volumes show that there is still much to be said about Tolkien’s relationship to his own times, and many of them offer substantial advances in the field. The treatments to the theme vary greatly, ranging from the perspective of comparative literature, as in Thomas Honegger’s analysis (“The Passing of the Elves and the Arrival of Modernity: Tolkien’s Mythical Method”) of Tolkien’s particular version of a well-known stylistic feature of high Modernism, to philosophical issues present in Tolkien’s writings that are seen to be inherently modern, perhaps best expressed in Frank Weinreich’s succinct “Brief Considerations on Determinism in Reality and Fiction”.
