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In which co-hosts Kenny and Sam talk to Professor Robert Tally about his new book The Mismeasure of Orcs: A Critical Reassessment of Tolkien's Demonized Creatures, out now from McFarland Books.
Robert Tally is a Professor of English at Texas State University. He's written extensively about Tolkien and Marxist literary criticism.
More Rob:
Representing Middle-earth: Tolkien, Form, and Ideology
JRR Tolkien's The Hobbit: A Critical Companion
Let Us Now Praise Famous Orcs: Simple Humanity in Tolkien's Inhuman Creatures
Demonizing The Enemy, Literally: Tolkien, Orcs, and the Sense of the World Wars
The Southern Phoenix Triumphant: Richard Weaver, or, the Origins of Contemporary U.S. Conservatism
Also mentioned:
Bould/Mieville (ed.) - Red Planets: Marxism and Science Fiction
Croft et. al (ed.) - Tolkien in the New Century: Essays in Honor of Tom Shippey
Fonstad - Atlas of Middle-Earth
Jameson - Archaeologies of the Future
Jameson - Fables of Aggression
Jameson - The Political Unconscious
Lukas - The Historical Novel
Mills - The Wretched of Middle-Earth: An Orkish Manifesto
Mohler (Existential Comics) - The Council of Elrond
Sofge - Orc Holocaust
Stuart - Tolkien, Race, and Racism in Middle-Earth
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In which co-hosts Kenny and Sam talk to Professor Robert Tally about his new book The Mismeasure of Orcs: A Critical Reassessment of Tolkien's Demonized Creatures, out now from McFarland Books.
Robert Tally is a Professor of English at Texas State University. He's written extensively about Tolkien and Marxist literary criticism.
More Rob:
Representing Middle-earth: Tolkien, Form, and Ideology
JRR Tolkien's The Hobbit: A Critical Companion
Let Us Now Praise Famous Orcs: Simple Humanity in Tolkien's Inhuman Creatures
Demonizing The Enemy, Literally: Tolkien, Orcs, and the Sense of the World Wars
The Southern Phoenix Triumphant: Richard Weaver, or, the Origins of Contemporary U.S. Conservatism
Also mentioned:
Bould/Mieville (ed.) - Red Planets: Marxism and Science Fiction
Croft et. al (ed.) - Tolkien in the New Century: Essays in Honor of Tom Shippey
Fonstad - Atlas of Middle-Earth
Jameson - Archaeologies of the Future
Jameson - Fables of Aggression
Jameson - The Political Unconscious
Lukas - The Historical Novel
Mills - The Wretched of Middle-Earth: An Orkish Manifesto
Mohler (Existential Comics) - The Council of Elrond
Sofge - Orc Holocaust
Stuart - Tolkien, Race, and Racism in Middle-Earth
Leave us a review! Send us an email at [email protected]!
Hosted on Acast. See acast.com/privacy for more information.

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