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Jane Chance, also known as Jane Chance Nitzsche (born 1945) is an American scholar specializing in medieval English literature, gender studies, and J. R. Tolkien.

Jane Chance, also known as Jane Chance Nitzsche (born 1945) is an American scholar specializing in medieval English literature, gender studies, and J. She spent most of her career at Rice University, where since her retirement she has been the Andrew W. Mellon Distinguished Professor Emerita in English. Chance earned her BA from Purdue University in 1967 and her MA (1968) and PhD (1971) from the University of Illinois at Urbana–Champaign.

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which formed the foundation of Tolkien's masterpieces, his 'mythology for England'. For it was Tolkien's passion for the medieval literary, religious and cultural ideas in which his entire life was steeped that provided the seeds for his own fiction. As a storyteller, Tolkien became both a cult figure and an object of severe criticism. In this absorbing study, however, it is not so much of the writer who is under observation as the 'discoverer of legend'. J. Tolkien wrote some of the greatest pieces of imaginative fiction of this century and, perhaps, of any other century as well.

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by Jane Chance Nitzsche.

Jane Chance Nitzsche is Andrew W. Mellon Distinguished Professor Emerita of English, Rice University (since 13 September 2013). Tolkien in particular), mythology, literature of the Middle Ages, and medieval women writers. 1979: Tolkien's Art: A Mythology for England. 1992: The Lord of the Rings: The Mythology of Power.

Jane Chance is Professor of English at Rice University. Bibliographic information. Tolkien's Art: A Mythology for England. University Press of Kentucky, 2001. 0813190207, 9780813190204.

And because Tolkien later repudiated the technique (by example in The Lord of the Rings as well as in interviews and in critical articles about writing fantasy), most of these annoyed critics and readers have passed over the narrator's intrusions as merely a way one writes for children o. .

And because Tolkien later repudiated the technique (by example in The Lord of the Rings as well as in interviews and in critical articles about writing fantasy), most of these annoyed critics and readers have passed over the narrator's intrusions as merely a way one writes for children or as the sort of flaw one often finds in an early.