{"version":"1.0","type":"rich","provider_name":"Acast","provider_url":"https://acast.com","height":250,"width":700,"html":"<iframe src=\"https://embed.acast.com/$/62c5cfbd7e8f5c0013c1c8f9/68479a2ed61256a5782b6e25?\" frameBorder=\"0\" width=\"700\" height=\"250\"></iframe>","title":"The Mismeasure of Orcs (w/ Robert Tally)","description":"<p>In which co-hosts Kenny and Sam talk to Professor Robert Tally about his new book <a href=\"https://www.amazon.com/Mismeasure-Orcs-Reassessment-Demonized-Creatures/dp/1476694354\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\" target=\"_blank\">The Mismeasure of Orcs: A Critical Reassessment of Tolkien's Demonized Creatures</a>, out now from McFarland Books.</p><p><br></p><p>Robert Tally is a Professor of English at Texas State University. He's written extensively about Tolkien and Marxist literary criticism.</p><p><br></p><p><strong>More Rob:</strong></p><p><a href=\"https://bookshop.org/p/books/representing-middle-earth-tolkien-form-and-ideology-robert-t-tally/20656454\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\" target=\"_blank\">Representing Middle-earth: Tolkien, Form, and Ideology</a></p><p><a href=\"https://bookshop.org/p/books/j-r-r-tolkien-s-the-hobbit-realizing-history-through-fantasy-a-critical-companion-robert-t-tally-jr/18811881\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\" target=\"_blank\">JRR Tolkien's The Hobbit: A Critical Companion</a></p><p><a href=\"https://dc.swosu.edu/mythlore/vol29/iss1/3/\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\" target=\"_blank\">Let Us Now Praise Famous Orcs: Simple Humanity in Tolkien's Inhuman Creatures</a></p><p><a href=\"https://www.mdpi.com/2076-0787/8/1/54\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\" target=\"_blank\">Demonizing The Enemy, Literally: Tolkien, Orcs, and the Sense of the World Wars</a></p><p><a href=\"https://www.boundary2.org/2017/03/robert-t-tally-jr-the-southern-phoenix-triumphant-richard-weaver-or-the-origins-of-contemporary-u-s-conservatism/\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\" target=\"_blank\">The Southern Phoenix Triumphant: Richard Weaver, or, the Origins of Contemporary U.S. Conservatism</a></p><p><br></p><p><strong>Also mentioned:</strong></p><p>Bould/Mieville (ed.) - <a href=\"https://bookshop.org/p/books/red-planets-marxism-and-science-fiction-mark-bould/12110958\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\" target=\"_blank\">Red Planets: Marxism and Science Fiction</a></p><p>Croft et. al (ed.) - <a href=\"https://bookshop.org/p/books/tolkien-in-the-new-century-essays-in-honor-of-tom-shippey-janet-brennan-croft/11159132\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\" target=\"_blank\">Tolkien in the New Century: Essays in Honor of Tom Shippey</a></p><p>Fonstad - <a href=\"https://bookshop.org/p/books/the-atlas-of-middle-earth-karen-wynn-fonstad/11839499\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\" target=\"_blank\">Atlas of Middle-Earth</a></p><p>Jameson - <a href=\"https://bookshop.org/p/books/archaeologies-of-the-future-the-desire-called-utopia-and-other-science-fictions-fredric-jameson/11949160\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\" target=\"_blank\">Archaeologies of the Future</a></p><p>Jameson - <a href=\"https://bookshop.org/p/books/fables-of-aggression-wyndham-lewis-the-modernist-as-fascist-fredric-jameson/11946831\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\" target=\"_blank\">Fables of Aggression</a></p><p>Jameson - <a href=\"https://bookshop.org/p/books/political-unconscious-narrative-as-a-socially-symbolic-act-fredric-jameson/7838593\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\" target=\"_blank\">The Political Unconscious</a></p><p>Lukas - <a href=\"https://bookshop.org/p/books/the-historical-novel-georg-lukacs/10739822\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\" target=\"_blank\">The Historical Novel</a></p><p>Mills - <a href=\"https://doi.org/10.1111/sjp.12477\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\" target=\"_blank\">The Wretched of Middle-Earth: An Orkish Manifesto</a></p><p>Mohler (Existential Comics) - <a href=\"https://existentialcomics.com/comic/175\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\" target=\"_blank\">The Council of Elrond</a></p><p>Sofge - <a href=\"https://slate.com/news-and-politics/2008/03/with-dungeons-dragons-gary-gygax-created-a-monster.html\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\" target=\"_blank\">Orc Holocaust</a></p><p>Stuart - <a href=\"https://bookshop.org/p/books/tolkien-race-and-racism-in-middle-earth-robert-stuart/18420494\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\" target=\"_blank\">Tolkien, Race, and Racism in Middle-Earth</a></p><p><br></p><p>Leave us a review! Send us an email at entmootpod@gmail.com!</p>","author_name":"Kenny Talarico & Sam Lieberman"}