The Body in Tolkien's Legendarium
From Tolkien Gateway
| The Body in Tolkien's Legendarium: Essays on Middle-earth Corporeality | |
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| Author | Christopher Vaccaro |
| Publisher | McFarland |
| Released | 15 August 2013 |
| Format | paperback |
| Pages | 200 |
| ISBN | 978-0786474783 |
The Body in Tolkien's Legendarium: Essays on Middle-earth Corporeality is a 2013 book by Christopher Vaccaro about J.R.R. Tolkien's works.
Contents
- Part I. The Transformation of the Body
- The Body in Question: The unhealed wounds of Frodo Baggins
- Incorpoeality and transformation in The Lord of the Rings
- by Yvette Kisor
- Frodo's body: Liminality and the experience of war
- by Anna Smol
- Part II. The Body and the Spirit
- The Hröa and Fëa of Middle-earth: Health, ecology and war
- by Matthew Dickerson
From the publisher
The timely collection of essays is thematically unified around the subject of corporeality. Its theoretical underpinnings emerge out of feminist, foucauldian, patristic and queer hermeneutics. The book is organized into categories specific to transformation, spirit versus body, discourse, and source material. More than one essay focuses on female bodies and on the monstrous or evil body. While Tolkien's The Lord of the Rings is central to most analyses, authors also cover The Hobbit, The Silmarillion, and material in The History of Middle-earth.
