Green suns and faërie : essays on Tolkien / Verlyn Flieger.

Format:

Book

Author/Creator:

Flieger, Verlyn, 1933-

Language:

English

Subjects (All):

Tolkien, J. R. R. (John Ronald Reuel), 1892-1973--Criticism and interpretation.

Tolkien, J. R. R.

Tolkien, J. R. R. (John Ronald Reuel), 1892-1973.

Criticism and interpretation.

Physical Description:

xi, 331 pages ; 24 cm

Other Title:

Green suns and faërie : essays on J.R.R. Tolkien

Place of Publication:

Kent, Ohio : Kent State University Press, [2012]

Summary:

In Green Suns and Faërie, author Verlyn Flieger, one of the World's foremost Tolkien scholars, presents a selection of her best articles-some never before published-on a range of Tolkien topics.

The essays are divided into three distinct sections: exploring Tolkien's ideas of subcreation-the making of a Secondary World and its relation to the real world, looking at Tolkien's reconfiguration of the medieval story tradition, and placing Tolkien's work firmly within the context of the twentieth century and modernist literature. Taken in their entirety, these essays track a major scholar's deepening understanding of the work of the master of fantasy. Book jacket.

Contents:

Tolkien sub-creator. Fantasy and reality: J.R.R. Tolkien's world and the fairy-story essay ; The music and the task: fate and free will in Middle-earth ; Tolkien and the idea of the book ; Tolkien on Tolkien: "On fairy-stories," The hobbit, and The lord of the rings ; When is a fairy story a faërie story? Smith of Wootton Major ; The footsteps of Ælfwine ; The curious incident of the dream at the barrow: memory and reincarnation in Middle-earth ; Whose myth is it?

Tolkien in tradition. Tolkien's Wild Men from medieval to modern ; Tolkien and the matter of Britain ; Frodo and Aragorn: the concept of the hero ; Bilbo's neck riddle ; Allegory vs. bounce: Tolkien's Smith of Wootton Major ; Flieger ; Shippey ; A mythology for Finland:Tolkien and Lönnrot as mythmakers ; Tolkien, Kalevala, and "The story of Kullervo" ; Brittany and Wales in Middle-earth ; The Green Knight, the Green Man, and Treebeard: scholarship and invention in Tolkien's fiction ; Missing person

Tolkien and his century. A cautionary tale: Tolkien's mythology for England ; The mind, the tongue, and the tale ; A post-modern medievalist ; Taking the part of trees: eco-conflict in Middle-earth ; Gilson, Smith, and Baggins ; The body in question: the unhealed wounds of Frodo Baggins ; A distant mirror: Tolkien and Jackson in the looking-glass.

Notes:

Includes bibliographical references (pages 317-323) and index.

ISBN:

1606350943

9781606350942

OCLC:

768607029

Publisher Number:

99947858709