Top-Down Processing: A Network Analysis of The Lord of the Rings as a Means of Defining Good and Evil
This essay was written for Dr. Quamen’s ENGL 486 class on the Internet as Environment. Using network theory, I seek to analyze the structural characteristics of power and authority in J.R.R. Tolkien’s The Lord of the Rings. I then compare my findings with H.C. Mack’s parametric analysis of the texts...
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Language: | English |
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University of Alberta Library
2018-06-01
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Series: | Spectrum |
Online Access: | https://spectrumjournal.ca/index.php/spectrum/article/view/34 |