The Mirror of Desire Unbidden: Retrieving the Imago Dei in Tolkien and Late Medieval English Literature
The Mirror of Desire Unbidden: Retrieving the Imago Dei in Tolkien and Late Medieval English Literature sets Tolkien’s theory of Fantasy against the backdrop of Western history of phantasia, all the way back to the Biblical image of God and the Hellenic concept of phantasm. The historical change into the judgment of the imaginative faculty shaped Christianity in associating fantasy with adultery. The emergence of the fantastic, Arthurian Legend, and Courtly Love in the 12th century might appear a countertendency, but Tolkien rather follows authors like Chaucer and the Gawain-Poet in their refusal of adultery. An investigation into the subject affords to clarify Tolkien’s poetics and his theology, finalized to the retrieval of the female Imago Dei.

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The Mirror of Desire Unbidden: Retrieving the Imago Dei in Tolkien and Late Medieval English Literature
The Mirror of Desire Unbidden: Retrieving the Imago Dei in Tolkien and Late Medieval English Literature sets Tolkien’s theory of Fantasy against the backdrop of Western history of phantasia, all the way back to the Biblical image of God and the Hellenic concept of phantasm. The historical change into the judgment of the imaginative faculty shaped Christianity in associating fantasy with adultery. The emergence of the fantastic, Arthurian Legend, and Courtly Love in the 12th century might appear a countertendency, but Tolkien rather follows authors like Chaucer and the Gawain-Poet in their refusal of adultery. An investigation into the subject affords to clarify Tolkien’s poetics and his theology, finalized to the retrieval of the female Imago Dei.

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The Mirror of Desire Unbidden: Retrieving the Imago Dei in Tolkien and Late Medieval English Literature

The Mirror of Desire Unbidden: Retrieving the Imago Dei in Tolkien and Late Medieval English Literature

The Mirror of Desire Unbidden: Retrieving the Imago Dei in Tolkien and Late Medieval English Literature

The Mirror of Desire Unbidden: Retrieving the Imago Dei in Tolkien and Late Medieval English Literature

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The Mirror of Desire Unbidden: Retrieving the Imago Dei in Tolkien and Late Medieval English Literature sets Tolkien’s theory of Fantasy against the backdrop of Western history of phantasia, all the way back to the Biblical image of God and the Hellenic concept of phantasm. The historical change into the judgment of the imaginative faculty shaped Christianity in associating fantasy with adultery. The emergence of the fantastic, Arthurian Legend, and Courtly Love in the 12th century might appear a countertendency, but Tolkien rather follows authors like Chaucer and the Gawain-Poet in their refusal of adultery. An investigation into the subject affords to clarify Tolkien’s poetics and his theology, finalized to the retrieval of the female Imago Dei.

Product Details

ISBN-13: 9783631918579
Publisher: Peter Lang GmbH, Internationaler Verlag der Wissenschaften
Publication date: 06/28/2024
Series: Studies in English Medieval Language and Literature , #65
Pages: 422
Product dimensions: 5.83(w) x 8.27(h) x (d)

About the Author

Giovanni Carmine Costabile (MPhil) is an independent researcher, teacher, translator, and writer. His articles and notes are published in several academic journals and he contributes chapters to collections dedicated to Medieval Studies, Fantasy and Tolkien. He translated several volumes, both non-fiction and fiction.

Table of Contents

PART ONE: A HISTORY OF PHANTASIA (1000 BCE - 1300 CE)

PART TWO: FANTASIE AND FAIERIE IN LATE MEDIEVAL ENGLISH LITERATURE AND IN TOLKIEN

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