J.R.R. Tolkien in Central Europe

This volume is a long overdue contribution to the dynamic, but unevenly distributed study of fantasy and J.R.R. Tolkien's legacy in Central Europe. The essays move between and across theories of cultural and social history, reception, adaptation and audience studies.

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Janka Kascakova is Associate Professor in English at the Catholic University of Ruomberok, Slovakia and Palacký University Olomouc, the Czech Republic. Her research centers on modernism and the modernist short story, especially the works of Katherine Mansfield, and fantasy literature, chiefly the works of J.R.R. Tolkien.

David Levente Palatinus is Associate Professor in Media and Cultural Studies at the Catholic University in Ruomberok and the Technical University of Liberec.He recently co-edited Gothic Metamorphoses across the Centuries (2020). His book Human/Non/Human: Technics and Subjectivity across Media is forthcoming in 2023.

Inhalt

List of contributors

Acknowledgements

Introduction

David Levente Palatinus

Janka Kascakova

PART I: RECEPTION AND TRANSLATIONS OF TOLKIEN IN HUNGARY

1. Reading Tolkien in Hungary, Part I: the 20th Century ** Gergely Nagy

2. Reading Tolkien in Hungary, Part II: the 21st Century Gergely Nagy

PART II: RECEPTION AND TRANSLATIONS OF TOLKIEN IN CZECHOSLOVAKIA AND ITS SUCCEEDING COUNTRIES

1. Mythologia Non Grata: Tolkien and Socialist Czechoslovakia

   ** Janka Kascakova

2. "Through darkness you have come to your hope": The Dynamics of J.R.R. Tolkien's Work Reception in the Czech Context

   ** Tereza Ddinová

3. J.R.R. Tolkien in the Slovak Press: Situation After 1990

   ** Jozefa Pevíková

   Eva Urbanová

   Translated by Jela Kehoe

4. Unknotting the Translation Knots in The Hobbit: A Diachronic Analysis of Slovak Translations from 1973 and 2002

   Jela Kehoe

   PART III: STUDYING FANTASY AFTER TOLKIEN: LEGACIES AND CONTEMPORARY PERSPECTIVES

Growing Up in Fantasy: Inspecting the Convergences of Young Adult Literature and Fantastic Fiction

** Martina Vránová

One Does Not Simply Teach Fantasy: How Students of English and American Studies in Hungary View the Genre and Tolkien's Legacy

** Nikolett Sipos

From Niche to Mainstream? Screen Culture's Impact on Contemporary Perceptions of Fantasy David Levente Palatinus

Index