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One Day, One Novel: the Lord of the Rings One Day, One Novel: The Lord of the Rings Start date 18 February 2018 End date 18 February 2018 Venue Madingley Hall Madingley Cambridge Tutor Dr John Lennard Course code 1718NDX013 Director of Programmes Emma Jennings Public Programme Coordinator, Clare Kerr For further information on this course, please contact [email protected] or 01223 746237 To book See: www.ice.cam.ac.uk or telephone 01223 746262 Tutor biography Born in Bristol, and educated at Oxford and St Louis, Dr John Lennard has taught English, American, and Commonwealth Literature in Cambridge, London, and Jamaica over more than twenty years. He has written two widely used textbooks (on poetry and drama) and monographs on Shakespeare, Paul Scott, Nabokov, and Faulkner, as well as two collections of essays on contemporary genre writers in crime, science fiction and fantasy, and romance. Enthusiastic, discursive, widely knowledgeable, and a demon for punctuation (on which he has also published extensively), he has been a Summer Programme Course Director and Panel Tutor for the Institute of Continuing Education since 1992. University of Cambridge Institute of Continuing Education, Madingley Hall, Cambridge, CB23 8AQ www.ice.cam.ac.uk Course programme 09:30 Terrace bar open for pre-course tea/coffee 10:00 – 11:15 The Lord of the Rings : Origins and Sources 11:15 Coffee 11:45 – 13:00 The Lord of the Rings : Languages and Histories 13:00 Lunch 14:00 – 15:15 The Lord of the Rings : Tolkien and Warfare 15:15 Tea 15:30 – 16:45 The Lord of the Rings : Faith and Providence 16:45 Day-school ends University of Cambridge Institute of Continuing Education, Madingley Hall, Cambridge, CB23 8AQ www.ice.cam.ac.uk Course syllabus Aims: To (re)introduce students to the work. To put the work in biographical, historical, and literary context. To prompt consideration of how unusual a work it is, not only in its enduring mass popularity but in its elegiac tenor and darker implications. Content: The sessions will consider in turn the work’s unusual composition and influential publication history, the roles of invented languages and histories, the weight of the two world wars Tolkien experienced while writing it, and his deep concern as a pious Catholic with Providence. All are central to one of the greatest works of fantasy in any language. The Lord of the Rings is not alone in its legendarium, and can be approached from very many angles. This course begins by exploring the materials on which Tolkien drew, the post-war conditions of publication, and the book’s ascent to mass popularity, and then considers in turn Tolkien’s obsession and playfulness with language, the importance of his experiences of WW1 (in which he served) and WW2 (in which his children served), and the qualified presence of his deep Catholic faith. The concepts of Providence and typology, God’s patterning of history, will also be examined. Students (re-)reading the book in advance should note things that seem to happen by chance, for good or ill, and particularly anything to do with Gollum or the palantiri of Numenór. Presentation of the course: In each session I shall have things to say for perhaps 30-40 minutes, followed by open discussion. There will also be some PowerPoint slides to provide illustrations and other data As a result of the course, within the constraints of the time available, students should be able to: Understand the nature and radical qualities of Tolkien’s achievement in The Lord of the Rings; and (re-)read and discuss the novel with greater insight and literary appreciation. University of Cambridge Institute of Continuing Education, Madingley Hall, Cambridge, CB23 8AQ www.ice.cam.ac.uk Reading and resources list Listed below are a number of texts that might be of interest for future reference, but do not need to be bought (or consulted) for the course. Author Title Publisher and date It is essential to have read the book before the course. Familiarity with The Silmarillion or other works of Middle-earth is welcome but not needed. Any copy of The Lord of the Rings anyone owns is fine, but if buying new or used, the corrected text issued on the 50th anniversary of publication is recommended, as are all of the following: Carpenter, Humphrey, J. R. R. Tolkien: A Biography (London: George Allen & Unwin, 1977) Garth, John, Tolkien and the Great War: The Threshold of Middle-earth (London: HarperCollins, 2003) Gilliver, Peter, Jeremy Marshall, & Edmund Weiner, The Ring of Words: Tolkien and the Oxford English Dictionary (Oxford: Oxford University Press, 2006) Hammond, Wayne G., & Christina Scull, The Lord of the Rings: A Reader’s Companion (2005; London: HarperCollins, 2008) Shippey, Tom, The Road to Middle-earth (1982; 3/e, London: HarperCollins, 2005) Website addresses https://www.tolkiensociety.org Additional information Venue Details of how to find Madingley Hall can be found on our website: http://www.ice.cam.ac.uk/who-we-are/how-to-find-the-institute Refreshments Tea and coffee and lunch will be provided. If you have any specific dietary requirements or allergies and have not already advised us, please inform our Admissions Team on [email protected] or +44 (0)1223 746262. Note Students of the Institute of Continuing Education are entitled to 20% discount on books published by Cambridge University Press (CUP) which are purchased at the Press bookshop, 1 Trinity Street, Cambridge (Mon-Sat 9am – 5:30pm, Sun 11am – 5pm). A letter or email confirming acceptance on to a current Institute course should be taken as evidence of enrolment. Information correct as of: 28 September 2017 University of Cambridge Institute of Continuing Education, Madingley Hall, Cambridge, CB23 8AQ www.ice.cam.ac.uk .
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