English 2072F/G Lecture 2: Lecture 2 2072

• School: Western University
• Department: English
• Course: English 2072F/G
• Professor: Stephanie Kelly

Document Summary

Lecture 2: lotr: harry potter paper: write a question to guide paper, tolkein associated with medievalism. Modern medievalism - envisioning medieval wold from modern perception. Referred to by some as a post romantic writer: we can identify tolkein as a romantic through the use of nature in the text. Ex: the shire: refers back and has a discussion with modern literature, nostalgia: We perceive the present through a rear view mirror while marching backwards into the future. Walking back into the future suggests anxiety, we have a clear understanding of things such as values/ideas but we don"t know what will happen in the future. We want to look back on the past because it is solid and we understand it but still have anxiety about what will happen in the future. Sam always wishing he was back in the shire, frightened about what will happen. Elves always look back to the past: moral categories are clear.