[lbo-talk] USA 2003

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Actually T was a  significant literary critic, one of
the leading scholars of Anglo-Saxon literature of the
first part of the century. I still have, somewhere,
his edition of Sir Gawaine and the Greene Knight.
There isa  very interesting discussion of T and the
other "Inklings," including CS Lewis, as critics and
scholars in Norman Cantor's wonderful book Inventing
the Middle Ages. (I recommend anything that C
writings; he's scholarly but accessible,
neoconservative but historical mateterialist, and
generally wonderful to read.) However, T apparently
resisted the application of literarry criticism to his
own fantasy works, which just goes to show all of us
have our limits. jks

jks

--- dredmond at efn.org wrote:
> Quoting Brian Siano <siano at mail.med.upenn.edu>:
> 
> > Tolkien himself was utterly opposed to reading any
> kind of analogy to then- 
> > current events into his works. 
> 
> Which proves that Tolkien was a significant writer,
> not a significant literary 
> critic. Heiner Mueller was one of the sharpest minds
> around, but not even 
> Heiner could have given a coherent explanation of
> what "Hamletmachine" was (or 
> wasn't) meant to signify.
> 
> -- DRR
> 
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