Women Figures in George Macdonald’s and J.R.R. Tolkien’s Fantasy Writings

Q4 Social Sciences

Gender Studies Pub Date : 2019-12-01 DOI:10.2478/genst-2020-0006

Laura Măcineanu

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Abstract

Abstract It is an undisputed fact that George MacDonald’s fantasy books were among J.R.R. Tolkien’s many sources of inspiration when writing his Middle-earth epic. Among these, “The Princess and the Goblinˮ and “The Princess and Curdieˮ attracted my attention, through the figures of some interesting women who appear in both of them. This paper endeavours to draw a comparison between Tolkien’s outstanding female characters in “The Lord of the Ringsˮ and the earlier versions of the same feminine archetypes in the two MacDonald books, noting both points of similarity and differences, as well as the strong effect these women have upon other characters in the stories.

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乔治·麦克唐纳和J.R.R.托尔金奇幻小说中的女性形象

乔治·麦克唐纳的奇幻小说是J.R.R.托尔金创作中土史诗的众多灵感来源之一，这是不争的事实。其中，《公主与妖精》和《公主与公主》引起了我的注意，因为在这两部作品中都出现了一些有趣的女性形象。本文试图将托尔金在《指环王》中塑造的杰出女性角色与麦克唐纳两部小说中同样女性原型的早期版本进行比较，指出两者的异同点，以及这些女性对故事中其他角色的强烈影响。

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Gender Studies Social Sciences-Gender Studies

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0.30

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0.00%

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157

审稿时长

14 weeks

期刊介绍： Gender Studies is a journal addressing academics and a general readership at the same time and its main goal is to provide a gendered approach to literature, language and society and also to highlight attempts of educationalists and Gender Studies esperts in various parts of the world to institutionalize Gender Studies in the academe. The GS journal publishes high-quality peer-reviewed articles from various Humanities and Social Sciences areas. The GS journal is interdisciplinary—gender proving an excellent analytical category enabling a new perspective on literature, anthropology, social and political studies, cultural studies, linguistics and mass media studies. The GS journal provides state-of-the-art research in all such fields.