Author(s): Jyrki Korpua
Publisher: University of Oulu
Year: 2015
Abstract
Tiivistelmä
Acknowledgements
Contents
1 Introduction
1.1 Background and Research Questions
1.2 The Mythopoetic Code of Tolkien’s Legendarium
1.3 Disposition of the Dissertation
1.4 On Constructive (Mytho)Poetics
2 The Creation and the Existence
2.1 The Song of Ainur: The Cosmogonical Creation Myth in The Silmarillion
2.1.1 Two Levels of Creation: Vision and Realisation, and Physical and Spiritual Existence
2.1.2 Cosmology and the Chain of Being
2.2 Tolkien’s Mythopoeia in On Fairy-Stories and in the Legendarium
2.2.1 Tolkien and Traditional Constructive Poetics: Concerning Sidney and Coleridge
2.2.2 Christian Platonic Mythopoetics: Philosophy of Afterlife
2.2.3 The Inklings and the Power of Words
2.3 Fictional Mythology Dedicated “to England”
2.3.1 The Speculative Historical Epic
2.3.2 Contextual Circles of Myth and Genre
3 The Fall and the Struggle
3.1 Long Defeat
3.2 Mythopoeia in Effect
3.2.1 Mythopoetic Allegories
3.2.2 Mythical Heroes
3.3 Examples of Constructive Mythopoeia
3.3.1 Númenor: an Atlantis myth
3.3.2 The One Ring and the Ring-motif
3.3.3 Familiarisation and Defamialiarisation of Myth
4 Conclusions
List of References
