HUMA 2640 Lecture Notes - Lecture 17: Antihero, Eucatastrophe, Evelyn Waugh

• School: York University
• Department: Humanities
• Course: HUMA 2640
• Professor: Richard P Teleky

Document Summary

This book is about how to be more fully yourself; how to nd out who you are, what you value, what you know etc. Book tends to appeal to people who have a dissatisfaction with their culture. When talking about genre ction, and fantasy, tolkien usually comes to mind. Bilbo is content where he is when something wrenches him out of his world, almost against his wishes so he must ask himself who he is. Religious movement sometimes referred to as oxford movement; most orthodox view of christianity was pitted against reality of life: people converted from anglican to catholic as a way to regain their roots in response to their world. Printing press of renaissance led to emphasis on designing books, more availability of books for the publics. Same impulse to reinvent the world is going on today around us (ex. online journals etc. ) We engage our world with the wealth of what our world had in the past.