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Romancing the Ring : romance tropes in The Lord of the Rings
Dissertation (MA)--University of Pretoria, 2015.
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| spelling | oai:repository.up.ac.za:2263/53471 Romancing the Ring : romance tropes in The Lord of the Rings Brown, Molly bsteeleb@gmail.com Steele, Brett UCTD Dissertation (MA)--University of Pretoria, 2015. This dissertation is an exploration of the Romance tropes that exist in J.R.R. Tolkien s The Lord of the Rings. It concentrates on the numerous Romance tropes and details evident in Tolkien s characters and setting while focusing on how these tropes function within the greater Romance genre. Examples from various other Romances are used to augment the argument, but particular mention is made of the Romances or pieces of literature that Tolkien translated and worked on in his lifetime, including: Sir Gawain and the Green Knight, Sir Orfeo, The Pearl, The Legend of Sigurd and Gudrún, The Fall of Arthur, and Beowulf. The dissertation focuses on Tolkien s The Lord of the Rings, which has been responsible for the renaissance of modern fantasy in the twentieth-century. It begins by raising the contentious issue of whether Tolkien s book may be regarded as a Romance. The work of Helen Cooper (2009), Gillian Beer (1970) and Northrop Frye (1973 and 1976) forms the basis of this theoretical discussion. The Romance tropes evident in the analysis of the characters and setting of The Lord of the Rings provide an interesting starting point for further discussion of the Romance tropes that exist elsewhere in Tolkien s work, and one hopes that more research into this will follow. English MA Unrestricted 2016-06-27T12:18:01Z 2016-06-27T12:18:01Z 2016-04-06 2015 Dissertation Steele, B 2015, Romancing the Ring : romance tropes in The Lord of the Rings, MA Dissertation, University of Pretoria, Pretoria, viewed yymmdd <http://hdl.handle.net/2263/53471> A2016 http://hdl.handle.net/2263/53471 en © 2016 University of Pretoria. All rights reserved. The copyright in this work vests in the University of Pretoria. No part of this work may be reproduced or transmitted in any form or by any means, without the prior written permission of the University of Pretoria. application/pdf University of Pretoria |
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