Author: Michael DroutPublisher:
ISBN: 9781940425344
Category : Electronic books
Languages : en
Pages : 353
Book Description
Tolkien Studies, Volume XI.
Author: Michael DroutPublisher:
ISBN: 9781940425344
Category : Electronic books
Languages : en
Pages : 353
Book Description
Tolkien Studies
Author: Tolkein Studies
Author: Michael DroutPublisher:
ISBN: 9781940425337
Category : Literary Criticism
Languages : en
Pages : 320
Book Description
Editors' introduction: This is the twelfth issue of Tolkien Studies, the first refereed journal solely devoted to the scholarly study of the works of J.R.R. Tolkien. As editors, our goal is to publish excellent scholarship on Tolkien as well as to gather useful research information, reviews, notes, documents, and bibliographical material....
A Secret Vice: Tolkien on Invented Languages
Author: J. R. R. TolkienPublisher: HarperCollins
ISBN: 0008131406
Category : Literary Criticism
Languages : en
Pages : 224
Book Description
First ever critical study of Tolkien’s little-known essay, which reveals how language invention shaped the creation of Middle-earth and beyond, to George R R Martin’s Game of Thrones.
A Companion to J. R. R. Tolkien
Author: Stuart D. LeePublisher: John Wiley & Sons
ISBN: 1118517482
Category : Literary Criticism
Languages : en
Pages : 590
Book Description
This is a complete resource for scholars and students of Tolkien, as well as avid fans, with coverage of his life, work, dominant themes, influences, and the critical reaction to his writing. An in-depth examination of Tolkien’s entire work by a cadre of top scholars Provides up-to-date discussion and analysis of Tolkien’s scholarly and literary works, including his latest posthumous book, The Fall of Arthur, as well as addressing contemporary adaptations, including the new Hobbit films Investigates various themes across his body of work, such as mythmaking, medieval languages, nature, war, religion, and the defeat of evil Discusses the impact of his work on art, film, music, gaming, and subsequent generations of fantasy writers
The J. R. R. Tolkien Companion and Guide
Author: Christina ScullPublisher: HarperCollins Publishers
ISBN: 9780007169726
Category :
Languages : en
Pages : 0
Book Description
Stunning two-volume slipcased set containing the most comprehensive in-depth companion to Tolkien's life and works ever published, including synopses of all his writings, and a Tolkien gazetteer, who's who and chronology. The three volumes contained in this slipcase, written by two of the foremost experts on J.R.R. Tolkien, comprise the definitive handbook to one of the most popular authors of the 20th century. Tolkien's progress is traced from his birth in South Africa in 1892, to the battlefields of France and the lecture-halls of Leeds and Oxford, to his success as the author of The Hobbit and The Lord of the Rings, until his death in 1973. His many academic and literary achievements, his public reception, and his enduring fame are examined in detail. The first volume in this set is a Chronology of Tolkien's life and works, the most extensive biographical resource about him ever published. Thousands of details have been drawn from letters, contemporary documents in libraries and archives, and a wide variety of other published and unpublished sources. Assembled together, they form a portrait of Tolkien in all his aspects: the distinguished scholar of Old and Middle English, the capable teacher and administrator, the devoted husband and father, the brilliant creator of Middle-earth. The second and third volumes, the Reader's Guide, is an indispensable introduction to Tolkien's life, writings, and art. It includes histories and discussions of his works; analyses of the components of his vast 'Silmarillion' mythology; brief biographies of persons important in his life; accounts of places he knew; essays on topics such as Tolkien's interests and attitudes towards contemporary issues, ideas found in his works, adaptations, and invented languages; and checklists of his published works, his poetry, his pictorial art, and translations of his writing.
Tolkien Studies, Volume X
Author: Michael DroutPublisher:
ISBN: 9781938228827
Category :
Languages : en
Pages : 0
Book Description
Tolkien Studies
Author: Michael D.C. Drout Drout (editor)Publisher:
ISBN: 9781938228575
Category :
Languages : en
Pages :
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Tolkien, Self and Other
Author: Jane ChancePublisher: Springer
ISBN: 1137398965
Category : Literary Criticism
Languages : en
Pages : 313
Book Description
This book examines key points of J. R. R. Tolkien’s life and writing career in relation to his views on humanism and feminism, particularly his sympathy for and toleration of those who are different, deemed unimportant, or marginalized—namely, the Other. Jane Chance argues such empathy derived from a variety of causes ranging from the loss of his parents during his early life to a consciousness of the injustice and violence in both World Wars. As a result of his obligation to research and publish in his field and propelled by his sense of abjection and diminution of self, Tolkien concealed aspects of the personal in relatively consistent ways in his medieval adaptations, lectures, essays, and translations, many only recently published. These scholarly writings blend with and relate to his fictional writings in various ways depending on the moment at which he began teaching, translating, or editing a specific medieval work and, simultaneously, composing a specific poem, fantasy, or fairy-story. What Tolkien read and studied from the time before and during his college days at Exeter and continued researching until he died opens a door into understanding how he uniquely interpreted and repurposed the medieval in constructing fantasy.
Tolkien Studies
Author: Michael D.C. Drout Drout (editor)Publisher:
ISBN: 9781938228551
Category :
Languages : en
Pages :
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