IMC 2018: Sessions
Session 311: 'New' Tolkien: Expanding the Canon
Monday 2 July 2018, 16.30-18.00
Sponsor: | Cardiff Metropolitan University |
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Organiser: | Dimitra Fimi, Department of Humanities, Cardiff Metropolitan University |
Moderator/Chair: | Dimitra Fimi, Department of Humanities, Cardiff Metropolitan University |
Paper 311-a | 'I will give you a name': Sentient Objects in Tolkien's Fiction (Language: English) Index terms: Language and Literature - Other, Medievalism and Antiquarianism |
Paper 311-b | Tolkien's 'The Lay of Aotrou and Itroun' and The Lay of Leithian (Language: English) Index terms: Medievalism and Antiquarianism, Sexuality |
Paper 311-c | Invented Language and Invented Religion: Tolkien's Innovative Symbolic Systems and New Religious Movements (Language: English) Index terms: Language and Literature - Other, Medievalism and Antiquarianism |
Paper 311-d | The Grammar of Historical Memory in Tolkien's Legendarium: The Tale of Beren and LĂșthien (Language: English) Index terms: Language and Literature - Other, Medievalism and Antiquarianism |
Abstract | This session focuses on recent works by J.R.R. Tolkien, posthumously published and authorized by the Tolkien Estate. Many of these volumes include Tolkien's translations or creative retellings of medieval material. Papers will focus on The Story of Kullervo (ed. Verlyn Flieger, 2015), A Secret Vice: Tolkien on Invented Languages (ed. Dimitra Fimi and Andrew Higgins, 2016), 'The Lay of Aotrou and Itroun' (ed. Verlyn Flieger, forthcoming, 2017) and The Tale of Beren and LĂșthien (ed. Christopher Tolkien, 2017). |