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dc.contributor.authorRyan, John Sen
dc.date.accessioned2012-11-09T11:21:00Z-
dc.date.issued2012-
dc.identifier.isbn9781921597411en
dc.identifier.urihttps://hdl.handle.net/1959.11/11661-
dc.description.abstractThis book, - in its original form, in a similar order for the larger themes treated, and as first published in 1969, - was the result of a National Seminar held in Armidale, New South Wales, Australia, from 23rd May to 25th May, 1969. That event itself was under the auspices of the Residential Division of the then highly imaginative, innovative and nation-challenging Department of University Extension of the University of New England. There was also considerable support for the seminar from the vigorous Tolkien Society which was then flourishing remarkably at the University of Sydney. On the occasion of that seminar, the two lead lecturers were John Ryan and Hugh Crago, both of the Department of English at the much smaller university, in Armidale, in northern New South Wales. These lecturers were much concerned to sketch in the background against which discussion of Tolkien's world of creative fiction and of his related and inspiring mediaeval scholarship - as already published to that date - might the better take place. For the concern was for a clearer understanding of both the writer and of his nurture, these so significant for the better appreciation of his academic career and of his then steadily appearing corpus of writings which, even so early in the 'phenomenon', had already teased the imaginations of so many, particularly in the northern hemisphere and in the United States of America in particular. The mesmeric attraction of 'The Lord of the Rings', a bulky work selling more than a million copies in many languages before its first appearance in paperback format, was one of the literary conundrums of the post-World War II literary scene, both in England and in the United States of America, in particular. After its initial volume's publication in 1954 and the whole trilogy by 1955, this sprawling tale would soon become the most popular offbeat seller of the century, a book already read by children, academics, and both 'hippies and housewives'. The sprawling and yet often headlong moving fantasy, it was stressed at the Seminar, had created an imaginary world of vast scope, of convincing detail, and of mesmeric attraction. By then, in 1969, and with a deeper understanding, most of his readers would have agreed that Tolkien, a distinguished Oxford scholar mediaevalist, had transformed the 'traditional' fairy-tale into an adult, dignified and (some would say) tragic conception.en
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dc.publisherUniversity of New Englanden
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dc.titleTolkien: Cult or Culture?en
dc.typeBooken
dc.subject.keywordsStudies in Human Societyen
dc.subject.keywordsBritish and Irish Literatureen
dc.subject.keywordsGlobalisation and Cultureen
local.contributor.firstnameJohn Sen
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local.subject.for2008200206 Globalisation and Cultureen
local.subject.for2008169999 Studies in Human Society not elsewhere classifieden
local.subject.seo2008950405 Religious Structures and Ritualen
local.subject.seo2008950499 Religion and Ethics not elsewhere classifieden
local.subject.seo2008950504 Understanding Europes Pasten
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local.profile.schoolSchool of Humanities, Arts and Social Sciencesen
local.profile.emailjryan@une.edu.auen
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local.publisher.placeArmidale, Australiaen
local.format.pages239en
local.title.subtitleCult or Culture?en
local.contributor.lastnameRyanen
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dc.identifier.academiclevelAcademicen
local.title.maintitleTolkienen
local.output.categorydescriptionA4 Revision/New Edition of a Booken
local.relation.urlhttp://trove.nla.gov.au/work/21220690en
local.search.authorRyan, John Sen
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local.year.published2012en
local.subject.for2020470504 British and Irish literatureen
local.subject.for2020470210 Globalisation and cultureen
local.subject.for2020449999 Other human society not elsewhere classifieden
local.subject.seo2020130503 Religious rituals and traditions (excl. structures)en
local.subject.seo2020130504 Religious structuresen
local.subject.seo2020130704 Understanding Europe’s pasten
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