Janka Kascakova is Associate Professor in English at the Catholic University of Ružomberok, Slovakia and Palacký University Olomouc, the Czech Republic. Her research centers on modernism and the modernist short story, especially the works of Katherine Mansfield, and fantasy literature, chiefly the works of J.R.R. Tolkien.David Levente Palatinus is Associate Professor in Media and Cultural Studies at the Catholic University in Ružomberok and the Technical University of Liberec.He recently co-edited Gothic Metamorphoses across the Centuries (2020). His book Human/Non/Human: Technics and Subjectivity across Media is forthcoming in 2023.

• List of contributorsAcknowledgementsIntroductionDavid Levente PalatinusJanka KascakovaPART I: RECEPTION AND TRANSLATIONS OF TOLKIEN IN HUNGARY Reading Tolkien in Hungary, Part I: the 20th CenturyGergely Nagy Reading Tolkien in Hungary, Part II: the 21st CenturyGergely NagyPART II: RECEPTION AND TRANSLATIONS OF TOLKIEN IN CZECHOSLOVAKIA AND ITS SUCCEEDING COUNTRIES Mythologia Non Grata: Tolkien and Socialist CzechoslovakiaJanka Kascakova "Through darkness you have come to your hope": The Dynamics of J.R.R. Tolkien’s Work Reception in the Czech ContextTereza Dědinová J.R.R. Tolkien in the Slovak Press: Situation After 1990 Jozefa PevčíkováEva UrbanováTranslated by Jela Kehoe Unknotting the Translation Knots in The Hobbit: A Diachronic Analysis of Slovak Translations from 1973 and 2002Jela KehoePART III: STUDYING FANTASY AFTER TOLKIEN: LEGACIES AND CONTEMPORARY PERSPECTIVES Growing Up in Fantasy: Inspecting the Convergences of Young Adult Literature and Fantastic FictionMartina Vránová One Does Not Simply Teach Fantasy: How Students of English and American Studies in Hungary View the Genre and Tolkien’s LegacyNikolett Sipos From Niche to Mainstream? Screen Culture’s Impact on Contemporary Perceptions of FantasyDavid Levente PalatinusIndex

Janka Kascakova is Associate Professor in English at the Catholic University of Ružomberok, Slovakia and Palacký University Olomouc, the Czech Republic. Her research centers on modernism and the modernist short story, especially the works of Katherine Mansfield, and fantasy literature, chiefly the works of J.R.R. Tolkien.David Levente Palatinus is Associate Professor in Media and Cultural Studies at the Catholic University in Ružomberok and the Technical University of Liberec.He recently co-edited Gothic Metamorphoses across the Centuries (2020). His book Human/Non/Human: Technics and Subjectivity across Media is forthcoming in 2023.

• List of contributorsAcknowledgementsIntroductionDavid Levente PalatinusJanka KascakovaPART I: RECEPTION AND TRANSLATIONS OF TOLKIEN IN HUNGARY Reading Tolkien in Hungary, Part I: the 20th CenturyGergely Nagy Reading Tolkien in Hungary, Part II: the 21st CenturyGergely NagyPART II: RECEPTION AND TRANSLATIONS OF TOLKIEN IN CZECHOSLOVAKIA AND ITS SUCCEEDING COUNTRIES Mythologia Non Grata: Tolkien and Socialist CzechoslovakiaJanka Kascakova "Through darkness you have come to your hope": The Dynamics of J.R.R. Tolkien’s Work Reception in the Czech ContextTereza Dědinová J.R.R. Tolkien in the Slovak Press: Situation After 1990 Jozefa PevčíkováEva UrbanováTranslated by Jela Kehoe Unknotting the Translation Knots in The Hobbit: A Diachronic Analysis of Slovak Translations from 1973 and 2002Jela KehoePART III: STUDYING FANTASY AFTER TOLKIEN: LEGACIES AND CONTEMPORARY PERSPECTIVES Growing Up in Fantasy: Inspecting the Convergences of Young Adult Literature and Fantastic FictionMartina Vránová One Does Not Simply Teach Fantasy: How Students of English and American Studies in Hungary View the Genre and Tolkien’s LegacyNikolett Sipos From Niche to Mainstream? Screen Culture’s Impact on Contemporary Perceptions of FantasyDavid Levente PalatinusIndex

Janka Kascakova is Associate Professor in English at the Catholic University of Ružomberok, Slovakia and Palacký University Olomouc, the Czech Republic. Her research centers on modernism and the modernist short story, especially the works of Katherine Mansfield, and fantasy literature, chiefly the works of J.R.R. Tolkien.David Levente Palatinus is Associate Professor in Media and Cultural Studies at the Catholic University in Ružomberok and the Technical University of Liberec.He recently co-edited Gothic Metamorphoses across the Centuries (2020). His book Human/Non/Human: Technics and Subjectivity across Media is forthcoming in 2023.

• List of contributorsAcknowledgementsIntroductionDavid Levente PalatinusJanka KascakovaPART I: RECEPTION AND TRANSLATIONS OF TOLKIEN IN HUNGARY Reading Tolkien in Hungary, Part I: the 20th CenturyGergely Nagy Reading Tolkien in Hungary, Part II: the 21st CenturyGergely NagyPART II: RECEPTION AND TRANSLATIONS OF TOLKIEN IN CZECHOSLOVAKIA AND ITS SUCCEEDING COUNTRIES Mythologia Non Grata: Tolkien and Socialist CzechoslovakiaJanka Kascakova "Through darkness you have come to your hope": The Dynamics of J.R.R. Tolkien’s Work Reception in the Czech ContextTereza Dědinová J.R.R. Tolkien in the Slovak Press: Situation After 1990 Jozefa PevčíkováEva UrbanováTranslated by Jela Kehoe Unknotting the Translation Knots in The Hobbit: A Diachronic Analysis of Slovak Translations from 1973 and 2002Jela KehoePART III: STUDYING FANTASY AFTER TOLKIEN: LEGACIES AND CONTEMPORARY PERSPECTIVES Growing Up in Fantasy: Inspecting the Convergences of Young Adult Literature and Fantastic FictionMartina Vránová One Does Not Simply Teach Fantasy: How Students of English and American Studies in Hungary View the Genre and Tolkien’s LegacyNikolett Sipos From Niche to Mainstream? Screen Culture’s Impact on Contemporary Perceptions of FantasyDavid Levente PalatinusIndex