• Realizing History Through Fantasy Literature: Reclaiming Tolkien’s Hobbit For the Left

    Robert T. Tally Jr. in Conversation with Andrew Keen on Keen On

    Hosted by Andrew Keen, Keen On features conversations with some of the world’s leading thinkers and writers about the economic, political, and technological issues being discussed in the news, right now.

    In this episode, Andrew is joined by Robert T. Tally Jr., author of J.R.R. Tolkien’s “The Hobbit”: Realizing History Through Fantasy: A Critical Companion.

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    Robert T. Tally Jr. is a Professor of English at Texas State University, USA. His books include For a Ruthless Critique of All That Exists: Literature in an Age of Capitalist Realism (2022), Topophrenia: Place, Narrative, and the Spatial Imagination (2019), and Fredric Jameson: The Project of Dialectical Criticism (2014).


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