42nd annual SWPACA conference ❧ Jeffrey Dixon, Associate Professor, Social Sciences, Texas A&M University–Central Texas ❧ Amber Dunai, Assistant Professor of English and Linguistics, Texas A&M University–Central Texas ❧ Stephanie Muro, independent scholar ❧№ 3018: Politics 1: Politics in the fiction of J.R.R. Tolkien
24 February 2021 14:30 utc — view in local time
Papers
№ 1: By my word: A linguistic analysis of oaths in Tolkien’s The Lord of the Rings
№ 2: “Indefeasibly just”: The Lord of the Rings as a critique of Modern Just War Theory
№ 3: “No more valiant than I am a man”: Talking about heroism in Tolkien’s Middle-earth
№ 4: Femininity, masculinity, and power in Tolkien’s wizards