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

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 20th Century
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
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 D¿dinová

3. J.R.R. Tolkien in the Slovak Press: Situation After 1990
Jozefa Pev¿íková
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: Paperback / Softback
• Released: 18.12.2024
• EAN: 9781032525587
• ISBN: 978-1-0-3252558-7
• 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 > Social sciences (general); Cultural Studies, LITERARY CRITICISM / General, LITERARY CRITICISM / Science Fiction & Fantasy, LITERARY CRITICISM / Modern / 20th Century, Literary studies: from c 1900 -, Literary studies: c 1900 to c 2000