Bradley J. Birzer
Autore di J. R. R. Tolkien's Sanctifying Myth: Understanding Middle-Earth
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Bradley J. Birzer is Russell Amos Kirk Chair in American Studies and professor of history at Hillsdale College. He is also the second Visiting Scholar of Conservative Thought and Policy. University of Colorado-Boulder, and the author of American Cicero. The Life of Charles Carroll and Sanctifying mostra altro the World: The Augustinian Life and Mind of Christopher Dawson. Birzer is a cofounder of and senior contributor to The Imaginative Conservative. mostra meno
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- Data di nascita
- 1967-09-06
- Sesso
- male
- Nazionalità
- USA
- Luogo di residenza
- South Bend, Indiana, USA
Hillsdale, Michigan, USA - Istruzione
- University of Notre Dame (BA|1990)
Indiana University (PhD|1998)
Utah State University
University of Innsbruck - Attività lavorative
- professor
- Organizzazioni
- Hillsdale College
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The Imaginative Conservative
Intercollegiate Studies Institute
Russell Kirk Center for Cultural Renewal
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- Opere
- 12
- Opere correlate
- 4
- Utenti
- 481
- Popolarità
- #51,317
- Voto
- 3.8
- Recensioni
- 5
- ISBN
- 28
Bradley Birzer argues that the mythology in Tolkien’s fiction is an elaborate, consistent expression of a conservative Catholic theology. He makes his case, but his analysis seems reductively polemic. He says little about the influences of Celtic, Anglo Saxon, Nordic, and Teutonic mythology in Tolkien’s work. Of more interest than the religious allegory is Birzer’s discussion of Tolkien’s competitive friendship with C. S. Lewis, applauding Lewis’s conversion to Christianity but deploring his Protestant theology. Tolkien was traumatized by his experiences in World War I, and he developed an antipathy to mechanization on any scale, avoiding everything from automobiles to tape recorders. Birzer details the difficulty that Tolkien had finishing Silmarillion, a work finally cobbled together and published after his death by his son. Birzer suggests that Silmarillion is the most complete expression of Tolkien’s mythology. Maybe so. I haven’t had the strength to read it, nor have I dug into the twelve-volume History of Middle Earth his son constructed from his father’s notes. Tolkien seems to have been an erudite, kindly professor who was popular with his students, even though he mumbled. He was not a good fit for his times, and though it may not be what Birzer wants me to conclude, Tolkien reminds me of William Blake, a man who retreated from the “Satanic mills” of his age into a mythology all his own. 3.5 stars.… (altro)