The Implied Reader and the Recovery of Childhood:A Study of J.R.R. Tolkien’s The Hobbit

الموضوعات

ادب

الملخص

This thesis argues that J.R.R. Tolkien’s The Hobbit uses a storyteller-narrator and a child/adult implied reader to guide child readers towards maturity and allow adult readers to reengage with the world of childhood. The storyteller replicates traditional fairytale and epic storytelling, a tradition which simultaneously engages adults and children. The novel’s language, intertexts, themes, humor and the reader’s encouraged identification with the hobbit, Bilbo, suggest that the implied reader is both an adult and a child. The novel invites the reader to adopt Bilbo’s development of a childlike perspective valuing the immaterial over the material. The life-like nature of time in the novel facilitates the reader’s engagement with moral questions posed by the text which leads to Recovery: the adult’s return to the pure view of childhood. The Christian concept of one’s rebecoming a child as essential to a person’s spiritual and moral development is shown to have inspired the construction of the novel’s child/adult implied reader.

روابط وملفات

التعريف والنوع

رقم الوثيقة

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رقم العقد

0

نوع الوسائط

Crawler

نوع المحتوى

الرسائل العلمية

صيغة المصدر

رسائل ماجيستير

نوع الملف

word

أسماء الملفات

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بيانات النشر

ألقاب المؤلفين

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اللغة

English

المصدر والدورية

اسم المصدر

The Implied Reader and the Recovery of Childhood:A Study of J.R.R. Tolkien’s The Hobbit

المحتوى والصفحات

عدد الصفحات

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كلمات الباحثين

The Implied Reader, Tolkien’s The Hobbit

إشراف وإعداد

الإشراف

وليام ميلاني

الإعداد

جورجيت رزق

الاقتباسات الببليوغرافية