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• Harken Not to Wild Beasts: Between Rage and Eloquence in Saruman and Thrasymachus

  Author(s):

  Dennis Wise (see profile)

  Date:

  2016

  Subject(s):

  Plato, Rhetoric, Tolkien, J. R. R. (John Ronald Reuel), 1892-1973, Literature--Study and teaching

  Item Type:

  Article

  Tag(s):

  J. R. R. Tolkien, Leo Strauss, The Lord of the Rings, Tolkien studies

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  ... —like mine—uses a reading of Plato heavily indebted to Leo Strauss. He paraphrases Glaucon as saying ...

  
  

• On Ways of Studying Tolkien: Notes Toward a Better (Epic) Fantasy Criticism

  Author(s):

  Dennis Wise (see profile)

  Date:

  2020

  Group(s):

  Tolkien Studies

  Subject(s):

  Critical theory, Political science, Tolkien, J. R. R. (John Ronald Reuel), 1892-1973, Literature--Study and teaching

  Item Type:

  Article

  Tag(s):

  J. R. R. Tolkien, Leo Strauss, Political theory, Tolkien studies

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  ... philosopher Leo Strauss. Outside the odd fact that they died about six weeks apart, little connects Tolkien ...

  
  

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