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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
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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 century manifestations. They analyse how discourses about fantasy are produced and mediated, and how processes of re-mediation shape our understanding of the historical coordinates and local peculiarities of fantasy in general, and Tolkien in particular, all that in Central Europe in an age of global fandom. The collection examines the entanglement of fantasy and Central European political and cultural shifts across the past 50 years and traces the ways in which its haunting legacy permeates and subverts different modes and aesthetics across different domains from communist times through today’s media-saturated culture.

     

    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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