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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

Costabile, Giovanni Carmine

Hardcover

Series: Studies in English Medieval Language and Literature, Book 65

Literary Criticism

ISBN10: 3631918577
ISBN13: 9783631918579
Publisher: Peter Lang Gmbh, Internationaler Verlag Der W
Published: Jun 28 2024
Pages: 422
Weight: 1.44
Height: 0.94 Width: 5.83 Depth: 8.27
Language: English

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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