LANGUAGE IN INDIA

Strength for Today and Bright Hope for Tomorrow

Volume 14:1 January 2014
ISSN 1930-2940

Managing Editor: M. S. Thirumalai, Ph.D.
Editors: B. Mallikarjun, Ph.D.
         Sam Mohanlal, Ph.D.
         B. A. Sharada, Ph.D.
         A. R. Fatihi, Ph.D.
         Lakhan Gusain, Ph.D.
         Jennifer Marie Bayer, Ph.D.
         S. M. Ravichandran, Ph.D.
         G. Baskaran, Ph.D.
         L. Ramamoorthy, Ph.D.
         C. Subburaman, Ph.D. (Economics)
Assistant Managing Editor: Swarna Thirumalai, M.A.

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Archetypes in Fantasy Fiction:
A Study of J. R. R.Tolkien and J. K. Rowling

Dr. Shobha Ramaswamy, M.A., B.Ed., DCE, M.Phil., Ph.D.

Journeying along the road of fantasy fiction is an enlightening and elevating experience for a scholarly mind which hankers after the universals in literature. Deciding to take up research along these lines, my choice of authors fell on J.R.R. Tolkien, the architect of the modern fantasy novel, and on J. K. Rowling, its most widely-read practitioner.

Tolkien’s vast multicultural canvas with its underpinnings of myth, legend and inherent tone of spirituality has an enormous appeal for me, belonging as I do to the Indian subcontinent which carries its own precious burden of myth, legend and history. What drew me to Rowling was the sheer readability of her books and the importance given to the perennial values of friendship, loyalty and fair play. I share her concerns with current issues such as racism and terrorism.

Huge popularity not only raises author and book to legendary heights; it is often an indicator of the presence of myth and archetype; and study in this area is generally fruitful. It is on basis of this assumption that I, like Tolkien’s Frodo, leave the safe confines of the Shire of conventional literature to venture forth on the Road which leads to the brave new secondary world of fantasy.

This is only the beginning part of the Dissertation. PLEASE CLICK HERE TO READ THE ENTIRE DISSERTATION IN PRINTER-FRIENDLY VERSION.

Dr. Shobha Ramaswamy, M.A., B.Ed., DCE, M.Phil., Ph.D.
Assistant Professor of English
Kongunadu Arts & Science College (Autonomous)
Coimbatore-641029
Tamilnadu, India
shobini_2005@yahoo.co.in
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