J.R.R. Tolkien in Central Europe: Context, Directions, and the Legacy

This volume is a long overdue contribution to the dynamic, but unevenly distributed study of fantasy and J.R.R. Tolkien’s legacy in Central Europe. The essays move between and across theories of cultural and social history, reception, adaptation and audience studies.

Janka Kascakova is Associate Professor in English at the Catholic University of Ruzomberok, Slovakia and Palacký University Olomouc, the Czech Republic. Her research centers on modernism and the modernist short story, especially the works of Katherine Mansfield, and fantasy literature, chiefly the works of J.R.R. Tolkien.

David Levente Palatinus is Associate Professor in Media and Cultural Studies at the Catholic University in Ruzomberok and the Technical University of Liberec.He recently co-edited Gothic Metamorphoses across the Centuries (2020). His book Human/Non/Human: Technics and Subjectivity across Media is forthcoming in 2023.