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Mapping Middle-earth

Name: Mapping Middle-earth
Brand: Bloomsbury Publishing (UK)
SKU: 9781350290761
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Environmental and Political Narratives in J. R. R. Tolkien's Cartographies

Autor: Behrooz Anahit Behrooz

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In this cutting-edge study of Tolkien's most critically neglected maps, Anahit Behrooz examines how...

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Behrooz Anahit Behrooz

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engleză

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Carte - Copertă tare

Publicat

2024

Pagini

224

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9781350290761

Enbook ID

43650610

Editura

Bloomsbury Publishing (UK)

Greutate

458

Dimensiuni

156 x 234

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In this cutting-edge study of Tolkien's most critically neglected maps, Anahit Behrooz examines how cartography has traditionally been bound up in facilitating power.

Far more than just illustrations to aid understanding of the story, Tolkien's corpus of maps are crucial to understanding the broader narratives between humans and their political and environmental landscapes within his legendarium. Undertaking a diegetic literary analysis of the maps as examples of Middle-earth's own cultural output, Behrooz reveals a sub-created tradition of cartography that articulates specific power dynamics between mapmaker, map reader, and what is being mapped, as well as the human/nonhuman binary that represents human's control over the natural world.

Mapping Middle-earth surveys how Tolkien frames cartography as an inherently political act that embodies a desire for control of that which it maps. In turn, it analyses harmful contemporary engagements with land that intersect with, but also move beyond, cartography such as environmental damage; human-induced geological change; and the natural and bodily costs of political violence and imperialism. Using historical, eco-critical, and postcolonial frameworks, and such theorists as Michel Foucault, Donna Haraway and Edward Said, this book explores Tolkien's employment of particular generic tropes including medievalism, fantasy, and the interplay between image and text to highlight, and at times correct, his contemporary socio-political epoch and its destructive relationship with the wider world.

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