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J.R.R. Tolkien and his literary resonances : views of Middle-earth

Author: George Clark; Daniel Timmons
Publisher: Westport, Conn. : Greenwood Press, 2000.
Series: Contributions to the study of science fiction and fantasy, no. 89
Edition/Format: Book : EnglishView all editions and formats
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Named Person: J 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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