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

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 contents

   
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 20^th Century

Gergely Nagy


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

Gergely Nagy


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

1. Mythologia Non Grata: Tolkien and Socialist Czechoslovakia

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

Tereza Dedinová


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

Jozefa Pevcíková
Eva Urbanová
Translated by Jela Kehoe


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

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

Nikolett Sipos


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

David Levente Palatinus

Index

About the author

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.

Summary

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 essays move between and across theories of cultural and social history, reception, adaptation and audience studies.

Product details

• Authors: Janka Levente Palatinus Kascakova
• Assisted by: Janka Kascakova (Editor), Kascakova Janka (Editor), David Levente Palatinus (Editor)
• Publisher: Taylor & Francis Ltd.
• Languages: English
• Product format: Hardback
• Released: 22.09.2023
• EAN: 9781032525563
• ISBN: 978-1-0-3252556-3
• No. of pages: 188
• Series: Routledge Studies in Speculative Fiction
• Subjects: Humanities, art, music > Linguistics and literary studies > General and comparative literary studies; Social sciences, law, business > Sociology > General, dictionaries; Science Fiction, Cultural Studies, LITERARY CRITICISM / General, LITERARY CRITICISM / Science Fiction & Fantasy, LITERARY CRITICISM / Modern / 20th Century, Social groups, Literary studies: from c 1900 -, Literary studies: c 1900 to c 2000, Social groups, communities and identities