The Masters of Truth in the Middle-Earth or the Worlds of Fantasy as Seen through the Lens of Detienne’s Theory

Joanna  Komorowska

doi:10.21697/zk.2018.5.10

Published: 2018-12-31

No. 5 (2018)

The Masters of Truth in the Middle-Earth or the Worlds of Fantasy as Seen through the Lens of Detienne’s Theory

Joanna Komorowska

Załącznik Kulturoznawczy

Section: Artykuły

https://doi.org/10.21697/zk.2018.5.10

Abstract

The essay analyzes the importance of true speech (as described in M. Detienne’s Les Maîtres de Vérité) in epic fantasy. Starting with J.R.R. Tolkien’s Middle-Earth, through Lyndon Hardy’s magical worlds, Ursula LeGuin’s Earthsea and AnnMcCaffrey’s Dragonriders of Pern series, speech carries an added value of truth, preserving and shaping the universe in turn – such understanding of privileged speech links modern fantasy literature to its ancient models (Homer or Hesiod).

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Komorowska, J. (2018). The Masters of Truth in the Middle-Earth or the Worlds of Fantasy as Seen through the Lens of Detienne’s Theory. Załącznik Kulturoznawczy, (5), 157–169. https://doi.org/10.21697/zk.2018.5.10

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