COOKIE SETTINGS
You can always change your preferences by clicking on the "Cookie Settings" link at the bottom of the page. View our Privacy Policy & Cookie Policy for full details.
Product Information:
Waterstones - Mapping Middle-earth
Don't miss out on future voucher deals, join our voucher alerts to be the first to benefit from these deals!
Join Voucher ListMapping Middle-earth Product Details:
Product Name: Mapping Middle-earth
Product Category: Books in Media
Product Features :
- No features available.
In this cutting-edge study of Tolkien’s most critically neglected maps, Anahit Behrooz examines how cartography has traditionally been bound up in facilitating power. Far more than just illustrations to aid understanding of the story, Tolkien’s corpus of maps are crucial to understanding the broader narratives between humans and their political and environmental landscapes within his legendarium. Undertaking a diegetic literary analysis of the maps as examples of Middle-earth’s own cultural output, Behrooz reveals a sub-created tradition of cartography that articulates specific power dynamics between mapmaker, map reader, and what is being mapped, as well as the human/nonhuman binary that represents human’s control over the natural world.Mapping Middle-earth surveys how Tolkien frames cartography as an inherently political act that embodies a desire for control of that which it maps. In turn, it analyses harmful contemporary engagements with land that intersect with, but also move beyond, cartography such as environmental damage; human-induced geological change; and the natural and bodily costs of political violence and imperialism. Using historical, eco-critical, and postcolonial frameworks, and such theorists as Michel Foucault, Donna Haraway and Edward Said, this book explores Tolkien’s employment of particular generic tropes including medievalism, fantasy, and the interplay between image and text to highlight, and at times correct, his contemporary socio-political epoch and its destructive relationship with the wider world.
Why compare prices for Mapping Middle-earth?
ShopMerit works with hundreds of UK retailers to provide you with the best possible prices for Books, deals and retailer vouchers codes. So comparing prices on Books just like Mapping Middle-earth is easy and also can save your hard earned cash when shopping online.
We’re pretty sure that you’ll find the best price for a Mapping Middle-earthat ShopMerit.com.