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Tolkien studies Volume VI / edited by Douglas A. Anderson, Michael D.C. Drout, Verlyn Flieger.

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Format:
Book
Contributor:
Anderson, Douglas A.
Drout, Michael D. C., 1968-
Flieger, Verlyn, 1933-
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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