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Transcending Genres: J.R.R. Tolkien's Influence on Narrative Worlds in Ursula K. Le Guin, Margaret Atwood, and Junot Diaz.

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Title/Author:	Transcending Genres: J.R.R. Tolkien's Influence on Narrative Worlds in Ursula K. Le Guin, Margaret Atwood, and Junot Diaz./
Author:	Hulick, Evan.
Published:	Ann Arbor : ProQuest Dissertations & Theses, : 2024,
Description:	313 p.
Notes:	Source: Dissertations Abstracts International, Volume: 85-11, Section: A.
Contained By:	Dissertations Abstracts International85-11A.
Subject:	American literature. -
Online resource:	https://pqdd.sinica.edu.tw/twdaoapp/servlet/advanced?query=31234703
ISBN:	9798382595306

Transcending Genres: J.R.R. Tolkien's Influence on Narrative Worlds in Ursula K. Le Guin, Margaret Atwood, and Junot Diaz.
Hulick, Evan.

Transcending Genres: J.R.R. Tolkien's Influence on Narrative Worlds in Ursula K. Le Guin, Margaret Atwood, and Junot Diaz. - Ann Arbor : ProQuest Dissertations & Theses, 2024 - 313 p.

Source: Dissertations Abstracts International, Volume: 85-11, Section: A.

Thesis (Ph.D.)--The Catholic University of America, 2024.

"Transcending Genres: J.R.R. Tolkien's Influence on Narrative Worlds in Ursula K. LeGuin, Margaret Atwood, and Junot Diaz" explores: How and why did J.R.R. Tolkien influence three modern writers-Le Guin, Atwood, and Diaz-outside of high fantasy? This subject is vastly understudied. All three writers use Tolkien's artistic praxis of secondary worldbuilding. Tolkien's narratives ask perennial questions about the complex nature of life and death, good and evil. These writers use Tolkien's secondary world as a new narrative tool to engage these questions. More specifically, all three writers stress that Tolkien's narrative approach to fantasy is a valid, viable literary form to address contemporary themes and issues. Combining an intertextual methodology-that different texts speak to each other through the unconscious influence of a primary text-with close readings of each text and each author's own words about Tolkien increases readers' understanding of Tolkien's expansive influence on narrative worlds beyond his genre.This dissertation examines Tolkien's influence on Le Guin, Atwood, and Diaz, revealing strong affinities among them. Le Guin's Taoist and Jungian interpretations of Tolkien reveal how the Tolkienian ending distinctively mediates between life and death through sorrow. Atwood's reading of the Wordsworthian and Darwinian goddess archetypes in Tolkien textures her narrative themes and use of the Tolkienian secondary world and ending in her MaddAddam Trilogy. Diaz uses Tolkien's direct influence as he writes his protagonist in The Brief Wondrous Life of Oscar Wao, which questions the role of the writer-as-dictator and employs the Tolkienian ending. Tolkienian fantasy, in its effort to build a coherent narrative unit in its secondary world, transcends itself into science fiction, speculative fiction, and magical realism. The chapters are as follows: Introduction; 1. J.R.R. Tolkien- A New and Ancient Art: Praxis and Influences; 2. Le Guin and Tolkien - Of Shadows, Dragons, and Influencing the Tao in Worlds of Exile and Illusion and the Earthsea Cycle; 3. Margaret Atwood, Tolkien, and The English Metaphysical Romance: Intertextualities between MaddAddam and The Lord of the Rings; 4. Resonances of Tolkienian Fantasy and Dictatorship in Junot Diaz's The Brief Wondrous Life of Oscar Wao; Conclusions; Appendix; Bibliography.

ISBN: 9798382595306Subjects--Topical Terms:

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American literature.
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Influence

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