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| Additional Physical Format: | Online version: J.R.R. Tolkien and his literary resonances. Westport, Conn. : Greenwood Press, 2000 (OCoLC)606464365 Online version: J.R.R. Tolkien and his literary resonances. Westport, Conn. : Greenwood Press, 2000 (OCoLC)608511339 |
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| Named Person: | J R R Tolkien; John Ronald Reuel Tolkien; John R R Tolkien |
| Document Type: | Book |
| All Authors / Contributors: |
George Clark; Daniel Timmons |
| ISBN: | 0313308454 9780313308451 |
| OCLC Number: | 42736437 |
| Description: | viii, 213 p. ; 24 cm. |
| Contents: | Tolkien the bard: his tale grew in the telling / C.W. Sullivan III -- The dragon-lore of Middle-earth: Tolkien and Old English and Old Norse tradition / Jonathan Evans -- J.R.R. Tolkien and the true hero / George Clark -- Tolkien's versecraft in The hobbit and The lord of the rings / Geoffrey Russom -- The monsters are talismans and transgressions: Tolkien and Sir Gawain and the green knight / Roger C. Schlobin -- The sins of Middle-earth: Tolkien's use of medieval allegory / Charles W. Nelson -- Is Tolkien a Renaissance man? Sir Philip Sidney's Defense of poesy and J.R.R. Tolkien's "On fairy-stories" / Tanya Caroline Wood -- Weaving nets of gloom: "darkness profound" in Tolkien and Milton / Debbie Sly -- Gagool and Gollum: exemplars of degeneration in King Solomon's mines and The hobbit / William N. Rogers II and Michael R. Underwood -- "Joy beyond the walls of the world": the secondary world-making of J.R.R. Tolkien and C.S. Lewis / David Sandner -- Taking the part of trees: eco-conflict in Middle-earth / Verlyn Flieger -- Women fantasists: in the shadow of the Ring / Faye Ringel -- Loss eternal in J.R.R. Tolkien's Middle-earth / W.A. Senior -- Orcs, wraiths, wights: Tolkien's images of evil / Tom Shippey. |
| Series Title: | Contributions to the study of science fiction and fantasy, no. 89. |
| Responsibility: | edited by George Clark and Daniel Timmons. |
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.,."this collection is a thoughtful and rich resource...for scholars interested in the literary history with which Tolkien drew and to which he contributed, these essays provide an intriguing range of insights that should enrich the Tolkien collections of larger academic libraries."-SFRA Review Read more...
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