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23rd September 2019: New publication, "Something Has Gone Crack": New Perspectives on J.R.R.Tolkien in the Great War
We are pleased to announce our latest publication "Something Has Gone Crack": New Perspectives on J.R.R.Tolkien in the Great War , edited by Janet Brennan Croft & Annika Röttinger.
"Something has gone crack," Tolkien wrote about the first death among his tight-knit fellowship of friends in 1916, and the impact of the war haunted his writing for the rest of his life. In Tolkien's body of work, the Great War serves as a source of imagery, motifs, and examples of military operations and strategy; of central themes about conflict, comradeship, duty, and the destruction of the environment; and of personal trauma which he worked out in meaningful symbolic form throughout his life. (read more)
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This volume will be presented at the upcoming Tolkien Conference in Jena (11th-13th October 2019)
(to link to this announcement: http://www.walking-tree.org/news_archive.php?item=157 )
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