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- Title
"The Fantasy Complex" Close Reading: The Hobbit & The Lord of the Rings.
- Authors
Cesereanu, Ruxandra
- Abstract
The current vogue of fantasy literature and its reverberations in the collective imagination could inspire us to talk about a potential "fantasy complex" which has an impact on behaviours, catalyses affects etc. The direction of expansion of the "fantasy complex" has been a positive one, since with many readers and viewers of fantasy film super-productions the effect is a therapeutic, healing one. The rediscovery of authors such as J. R. R. Tolkien and C. S. Lewis or the impact in these last decades of the Harry Potter series by J. K. Rowling, has depended on this aspect. The pathogenic note of contemporary society has stimulated the development of a "fantasy complex", whose purpose became the unearthing, from the unconscious, of the apologies it created for a cure applied to routine, through programmatic imagination. This study is a close reading of two Tolkien novels: The Hobbit and The Lord of the Rings.
- Subjects
FANTASY fiction; LITERARY form; FANTASY films; IMAGINATION; HOBBIT, The (Book : Tolkien); LORD of the Rings book series; TOLKIEN, J. R. R. (John Ronald Reuel), 1892-1973
- Publication
Caietele Echinox, 2014, Vol 26, p83
- ISSN
1582-960X
- Publication type
Article