Events

Tolkien and Romanticism

Date: 23 Apr - 25 Apr

Location: Jena, Germany

2010 Deutsche Tolkien Gesellschaft Seminar

‘Romanticism’ has been named frequently as an important influence on Tolkien. However, a comprehensive analysis investigating the complex relationship between the Professor’s work and the different varieties of ‘Romanticism’ remains a desideratum. Tolkien’s achievements as philologist, medievalist, poet and author would not have been possible without the changes brought about by Romanticism in the fields of art, music, philology, literature, philosophy and politics in the late 18th and early to mid-19th centuries – developments (often nationally diversified) that are usually subsumed under the heading of ‘Romanticism’.

It is the aim of the seventh DTG conference to explore not only Tolkien’s indebtedness to Romanticism in this broad meaning of the term, but also to discuss his importance as an author and scholar who persisted in the continuation and modification of ‘romantic’ impulses in a severely ‘anti-romantic’ environment.

CFP: http://www.tolkiengesellschaft.de/deutsche-tolkien-gesellschaft/tolkien-seminar-2/tolkien-seminar-2010/tolkien-seminar-2010-call-for-papers/

Venue: Friedrich-Schiller-Universität

Web site: http://www.tolkiengesellschaft.de/