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J.R.R. Tolkien in Central Europe: Context, Directions, and the Legacy book cover

1st Edition

J.R.R. Tolkien in Central Europe Context, Directions, and the Legacy

Edited By Janka Kascakova, David Levente Palatinus Copyright 2023
198 Pages
by Routledge

198 Pages
by Routledge

198 Pages
by Routledge
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This volume is a long overdue contribution to the dynamic, but unevenly distributed study of fantasy and J.R.R. Tolkien’s legacy in Central Europe. The chapters move between and across theories of cultural and social history, reception, adaptation, and audience studies, and offer methodological reflections on the various cultural perceptions of Tolkien’s oeuvre and its impact on twenty-first... Read more
 

List of contributors

Acknowledgements

Introduction

David Levente Palatinus

Janka Kascakova

PART I: RECEPTION AND TRANSLATIONS OF TOLKIEN IN HUNGARY

  1. Reading Tolkien in Hungary, Part I: the 20th Century

    2. Gergely Nagy

  2. Reading Tolkien in Hungary, Part II: the 21st Century

Gergely Nagy

　

PART II: RECEPTION AND TRANSLATIONS OF TOLKIEN IN CZECHOSLOVAKIA AND ITS SUCCEEDING COUNTRIES

  1. Mythologia Non Grata: Tolkien and Socialist Czechoslovakia

      2. Janka Kascakova

  2. "Through darkness you have come to your hope": The Dynamics of J.R.R. Tolkien’s Work Reception in the Czech Context

      3. Tereza Dědinová

  3. J.R.R. Tolkien in the Slovak Press: Situation After 1990

      4. Jozefa Pevčíková

      Eva Urbanová

      Translated by Jela Kehoe

  4. Unknotting the Translation Knots in The Hobbit: A Diachronic Analysis of Slovak Translations from 1973 and 2002

      5. Jela Kehoe

      PART III: STUDYING FANTASY AFTER TOLKIEN: LEGACIES AND CONTEMPORARY PERSPECTIVES

  5. Growing Up in Fantasy: Inspecting the Convergences of Young Adult Literature and Fantastic Fiction

      6. Martina Vránová

  6. One Does Not Simply Teach Fantasy: How Students of English and American Studies in Hungary View the Genre and Tolkien’s Legacy

      7. Nikolett Sipos

  7. From Niche to Mainstream? Screen Culture’s Impact on Contemporary Perceptions of Fantasy

David Levente Palatinus

Index

Biography

Janka Kascakova is Associate Professor in English at the Catholic University of Ružomberok, Slovakia and Palacký University Olomouc, the Czech Republic. Her research centers on modernism and the modernist short story, especially the works of Katherine Mansfield, and fantasy literature, chiefly the works of J.R.R. Tolkien.

David Levente Palatinus is Associate Professor in Media and Cultural Studies at the Catholic University in Ružomberok and the Technical University of Liberec.He recently co-edited Gothic Metamorphoses across the Centuries (2020). His book Human/Non/Human: Technics and Subjectivity across Media is forthcoming in 2023.　

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