Canary and Frodo Baggins in the mines: Czech readers’ reception of evil, defiance and hope in J.R.R. Tolkien’s work
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| Year of publication | 2022 |
| Type | Appeared in Conference without Proceedings |
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| Description | The proposed paper will focus on readers’ reception of the central themes of defiance, representation of evil, freedom, hope and heroism in LOTR, with particular attention to shifts in reception between readers who read the novels as adults or teens in the 1990s and (mostly younger) readers who read them in this millennium and the aftermath of Jackson’s adaptations. We will also focus on the perception of the transfer of the reader’s experience to the real world with regard to the specific situations of the end of totalitarianism at the turn of the 1980s and 1990s and the current war in Ukraine. |