J.R.R. Tolkien : critical assessments of major writers /
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Routledge,
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Publisher Address: | Abingdon, Oxon : |
Publication Dates: | 2017. |
Literature type: | Book |
Language: | English |
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Critical assessments of major writers. |
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Carrier Form: | 4 volumes : illustrations ; 24 cm. |
Bibliography: | Includes bibliographical references and index. |
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9781138889774 1138889776 9781138889781 1138889784 9781138889798 1138889792 9781138889811 1138889814 9781138889828 1138889822 |
Index Number: | PR6039 |
CLC: | I561.074 |
Call Number: | I561.074/J116-2 |
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`He had been inside language` / The Inklings and others: Tolkien and his contemporaries / Inklings: building community / Postscript: `one who dreams alone` / J.R.R. Tolkien's formal lecturing and teaching at the University of Oxford, 1929-1959 / J.R.R. Tolkien as a philologist: a reconsideration of the Northernisms in Chaucer's Reeve's Tale / The Homecoming of Beorhtnoth: philology and the literary muse / Tolkien as editor / The medievalist('s) fiction: textuality and historicity as aspects of Tolkien's medievalist cultural theory in a postmodernist context / J.R.R. Tolkien and Old English studies: an appreciation / J.R.R. Tolkien and The Wanderer: from edition to application / The Germanic king: Tolkien's medieval parodies / The dragon-lore of Middle-earth: Tolien and Old English and Old Norse tradition / Tolkien and the Gawain-poet / The AB language lives / The rhetorical evolution of "Beowulf: the monsters and the critics" / A "Clerkes Compleinte": Tolkien and the division of Lit. and Lang. / Tolkien as wordwright / Invented languages / Gnomish is Sindarin: the conceptual evolution of an Elvish language / Certhas, skirditaila, fuþark: a feigned history of runic origins / Stone towers / "Elvish as she is spoke" / Tolkien and source criticism: remarking and remaking / Mythological sources / Setting the rocket off in story: The Kalevala as the germ of Tolien's Legendarium / Two Norths and their English blend / She-who-must-not-be-ignored: gender and genre in The Lord of the Rings and the Victorian boys' book / Coleridge's definition of imagination and Tolkien's definiton(s) of Faery / The motives / The fairies, faith and folklore / The literary value of The History of Middle-earth / "And all the days of her life are forgotten": The Lord of the Rings as mythic prehistory / Early days of elder days / A mythology for England / `the course of actual composition` / On the construction of "The Silmarillion" / Introduction: reconstructing Arda / Over Middle-earth sent unto men: on the philological origins of Tolkien's Eärendel myth / Chronology of composition / Tolkien's hybrid mythology: The Hobbit as Old Norse "Fairy-Story" / `The heart of the mountain` / A most excellent and audacious hobbit: "an unexpected party" / Gollum's character transformation in The Hobbit / The shape of the narrative in The Lord of the Rings / The quest hero / The interlace of The Lord of the Rings / The Lord of the Rings as romance / The Shire Quest: the 'Scouring of the Shire' as the narrative and thematic focus of The Lord of the Rings / The footsteps of Ælfwine / The Lost road, The Dark Tower and The Notion Club Papers: Tolkien and Lewis's time travel triad / The Irish Otherworld voyage of Roverandom / Tolkien's lyric poetry / Tolkien's versecraft in The Hobbit and The Lord of the Rings / Frodo and the Great War / "The young perish and the old linger, withering": on World War II in the works of J.R.R. Tolkien / The shell-shocked Hobbit: the First World War and Tolkien's trauma of the Ring / Providence, fate, and chance: Boethian philosophy in The Lord of the Rings / Norse and Christian gods: the integrative theology of J.R.R. Tolkien / Sub-creation and Tolkien's theology of story / Good and evil in The Lord of the Rings / The Lord of the Rings (2): concepts of Evil / Power in Arda: sources, uses and misuses / J.R.R. Tolkien and the true hero / Frodo and Aragorn: the concept of the hero / The many faces of heroism in Tolkien / The valkyrie reflex in J.R.R. Tolkien's The Lord of the Rings: Galadriel, Shelob, Éowyn, and Arwen / The feminine principle in Tolkien / Tolkien and the twentieth century / Tolkien: a man of his time? / Shared literary concerns / The dethronement of power / On the possibilities of writing Tolkien criticism / The critical response to Tolkien's fiction / Is fantasy literature? Tolkien and the theorists / Oo, those awful Orcs! / Tolkien, Lewis and the explosion of genre fantasy / Extract from "The Portal-Quest Fantasy" / Frodo on film: Peter Jackson's problematic portrayal / Gollum talks to himself: problems and solutions in Peter Jackson's The Lord of the Rings / |