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Tolkien studies Volume VI / edited by Douglas A. Anderson, Michael D.C. Drout, Verlyn Flieger.
- Format:
- Book
- Series:
- Tolkien studies, 1547-3155 ; v. 6
- Language:
- English
- Subjects (All):
- Tolkien, J. R. R. (John Ronald Reuel), 1892-1973--Criticism and interpretation.
- Tolkien, J. R. R.
- Physical Description:
- 1 online resource (364 p.)
- Edition:
- 1st ed.
- Place of Publication:
- Morgantown : West Virginia University Press, 2009.
- Language Note:
- English
- Summary:
- Tolkien Studies: An Annual Scholarly Review presents the growing body of critical commentary and scholarship on both J. R. R. Tolkien's voluminous fiction and his academic work in literary and linguistic fields.
- Contents:
- Editors' Introduction
- Notes on Submissions
- Acknowledgments
- In Memoriam
- Conventions and Abbreviations
- Abbreviations
- "A Kind of Elvish Craft"
- "Labour and Thought"
- "A Rare Achievement"
- Conclusion: Tolkien the Wordsmith
- John D. Rateliff: A Checklist
- Books
- Tolkien-Related Critical Articles and Reviews
- Selected Other Criticism
- Selected Online Criticism
- Talk to the Dragon
- A "Clerkes Compleinte"
- Echoes of Pearl in Arda's Landscape
- Councils and Kings
- The Unique Representation of Trees in The Lord of the Rings
- I. The Uniqueness of Tolkien's Method
- II. Narrative Significance of Botanical Characteristics
- Familiar Tree Species of the Primary World
- Fictional Tree Species in The Lord of the Rings
- Postscript: A Mallorn in the Shire
- III. Arrangements Too Unlike the Primary World
- The Old Forest and Old Man Willow
- Ents and Fangorn Forest
- Unraveling the Mystery of Huorns
- IV. The Functions of Fantasy
- Clinamen, Tessera, and the Anxiety of Influence
- The Unfinished Preface to The Golden Key
- The Negative Influence of MacDonald
- Clinamen: The Corrective Swerve
- Correcting the Juvenility
- Correcting the Allegory
- Tessera: Redeeming the Word through Antithetical Completion
- The Anxiety of MacDonald
- Epilogue: A Brief Defense of MacDonald
- The Music and the Task
- A Green Sun
- Elements in Solution
- Happened, Spoken, Settled
- Greatness Meant
- Book Reviews
- Tolkien On Fairy-stories
- Words, Phrases and Passages in Various Tongues in "The Lord of the Rings"
- Arda Reconstructed
- Chesterton and Tolkien as Theologians
- The Lord of the Rings and the Western Narrative Tradition
- The Mirror Crack'd
- Myth and Magic
- The Silmarillion
- Tolkien, Race and Cultural History
- Tolkien's "The Lord of the Rings"
- Tolkien's Oxford
- Tolkien's Shorter Works
- Truths Breathed Through Silver
- Book Notes
- The Year's Work in Tolkien Studies 2006
- General Works, Biography, and Reference
- General Criticism: The Lord of the Rings and Talkien's Work as a Whole. Notes on Contributors.
- Notes:
- Description based upon print version of record.
- Includes bibliographical references.
- Description based on publisher supplied metadata and other sources.
- ISBN:
- 1-938228-56-1
- OCLC:
- 923515014
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