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Author : Jay Ruud
Publisher : Facts on File
Page : 0 pages
File Size : 48,8 Mb
Release : 2011
Category : Electronic
ISBN : 0816077940
Provides a biography of Tolkien, entries on all his novels, stories, and poems, his published scholarly essays and lectures, important posthumously published works, and entries on related people, places, and topics.
Author : Stuart D. Lee
Publisher : John Wiley & Sons
Page : 590 pages
File Size : 42,8 Mb
Release : 2020-06-02
Category : Literary Criticism
ISBN : 9781119656029
This is a complete resource for scholars and students of Tolkien, as well as avid fans, with coverage of his life, work, dominant themes, influences, and the critical reaction to his writing. An in-depth examination of Tolkien’s entire work by a cadre of top scholars Provides up-to-date discussion and analysis of Tolkien’s scholarly and literary works, including his latest posthumous book, The Fall of Arthur, as well as addressing contemporary adaptations, including the new Hobbit films Investigates various themes across his body of work, such as mythmaking, medieval languages, nature, war, religion, and the defeat of evil Discusses the impact of his work on art, film, music, gaming, and subsequent generations of fantasy writers
Author : Robert T. Tally Jr
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 0 pages
File Size : 43,5 Mb
Release : 2022
Category : Electronic
ISBN : 3031112679
This book is a critical introduction to J.R.R. Tolkien's The Hobbit, but it also advances an argument about the novel in the context of Tolkien's larger literary and philosophical project. Notwithstanding its canonical place in the fantasy genre, The Hobbit is ultimately a historical novel. It does not refer directly to any "real" historical events, but it both enacts and conceptualizes history in a way that makes it real. Drawing on Marxist literary criticism and narrative theory, this book examines the form and content of Tolkien's work, demonstrating how the heroic romance is simultaneously employed and subverted by Tolkien in his tale of an unlikely hero, "quite a little fellow in a wide world," who nonetheless makes history. First-time readers of Tolkien, as well as established scholars and fans, will enjoy this engaging and accessible study of The Hobbit. Robert T. Tally Jr. is a Professor of English at Texas State University, USA. His books include For a Ruthless Critique of All That Exists: Literature in an Age of Capitalist Realism (2022), Topophrenia: Place, Narrative, and the Spatial Imagination (2019), and Fredric Jameson: The Project of Dialectical Criticism (2014).
Author : Christina Scull,Wayne G. Hammond
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 1288 pages
File Size : 50,7 Mb
Release : 2006
Category : Biography & Autobiography
ISBN : UOM:39015066893036
Designed to be the essential reference works for all readers and students, these volumes present the most thorough analysis possible of Tolkien's work within the important context of his life. The Reader's Guide includes brief but comprehensive alphabetical entries on a wide range of topics, including a who's who of important persons, a guide to places and institutions, details concerning Tolkien's source material, information about the political and social upheavals through which the author lived, the importance of his social circle, his service as an infantryman in World War I -- even information on the critical reaction to his work and the "Tolkien cult."The Chronology details the parallel evolutions of Tolkien's works and his academic and personal life in minute detail. Spanning the entirety of his long life including nearly sixty years of active labor on his Middle-earth creations, and drawing on such contemporary sources as school records, war service files, biographies, correspondence, the letters of his close friend C. S. Lewis, and the diaries of W. H. Lewis, this book will be an invaluable resource for those who wish
Author : Christina Scull,Wayne G. Hammond
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 1032 pages
File Size : 49,8 Mb
Release : 2006
Category : Biography & Autobiography
ISBN : UOM:39015066893044
Designed to be the essential reference works for all readers and students, these volumes present the most thorough analysis possible of Tolkien's work within the important context of his life. The Reader's Guide includes brief but comprehensive alphabetical entries on a wide range of topics, including a who's who of important persons, a guide to places and institutions, details concerning Tolkien's source material, information about the political and social upheavals through which the author lived, the importance of his social circle, his service as an infantryman in World War I -- even information on the critical reaction to his work and the "Tolkien cult." The Chronology details the parallel evolutions of Tolkien's works and his academic and personal life in minute detail. Spanning the entirety of his long life including nearly sixty years of active labor on his Middle-earth creations, and drawing on such contemporary sources as school records, war service files, biographies, correspondence, the letters of his close friend C. S. Lewis, and the diaries of W. H. Lewis, this book will be an invaluable resource for those who wish to gain a complete understanding of Tolkien's status as a giant of twentieth-century literature.
Author : Wayne G. Hammond,Christina Scull,J. R. R. Tolkien
Publisher : HarperCollins
Page : 856 pages
File Size : 51,6 Mb
Release : 2017-11-30
Category : Literary Criticism
ISBN : 9780008273484
Volume 2 of the most comprehensive in-depth companion to Tolkien’s life and works ever published. This volume includes a superlative day-by-day chronology of Tolkien’s life, presenting the most detailed biographical record available.
Author : Wayne G. Hammond,Christina Scull,J. R. R. Tolkien
Publisher : HarperCollins
Page : 960 pages
File Size : 55,6 Mb
Release : 2017-11-30
Category : Literary Criticism
ISBN : 9780008273477
Volume 1 of the most comprehensive in-depth companion to Tolkien’s life and works ever published, including synopses of all his writings, and a Tolkien gazetteer and who’s who.
Author : Timothy S. Miller
Publisher : Springer Nature
Page : 139 pages
File Size : 44,6 Mb
Release : 2024-06-16
Category : Electronic
ISBN : 9783031534256
Author : Wayne G. Hammond,Christina Scull,J. R. R. Tolkien
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 960 pages
File Size : 54,6 Mb
Release : 2017
Category : Fantasy literature, English
ISBN : 0008214514
Volume 1 of the most comprehensive in-depth companion to Tolkien's life and works ever published, including synopses of all his writings, and a Tolkien gazetteer and who's who. The J. R. R. Tolkien Companion and Guide is a comprehensive handbook to one of the most popular authors of the twentieth century. One of two volumes comprising this definitive work, the Chronology traces J.R.R. Tolkien's progress from his birth in South Africa in 1892, to the battlefields of France and the lecture-halls of Leeds and Oxford, to his success as the author of The Hobbit and The Lord of the Rings, until his death in 1973. It is the most extensive biographical resource about Tolkien ever published. Thousands of details have been drawn from letters, contemporary documents in libraries and archives, and a wide variety of other published and unpublished sources. Assembled together, they form a revealing portrait of Tolkien in all his aspects: the distinguished scholar of Old and Middle English, the capable teacher and administrator, the devoted husband and father, the brilliant creator of Middle-earth.
Author : Philip Zaleski,Carol Zaleski
Publisher : Farrar, Straus and Giroux
Page : 656 pages
File Size : 42,9 Mb
Release : 2015-06-02
Category : Biography & Autobiography
ISBN : 9780374713799
C. S. Lewis is the 20th century's most widely read Christian writer and J.R.R. Tolkien its most beloved mythmaker. For three decades, they and their closest associates formed a literary club known as the Inklings, which met every week in Lewis's Oxford rooms and in nearby pubs. They discussed literature, religion, and ideas; read aloud from works in progress; took philosophical rambles in woods and fields; gave one another companionship and criticism; and, in the process, rewrote the cultural history of modern times. In The Fellowship, Philip and Carol Zaleski offer the first complete rendering of the Inklings' lives and works. The result is an extraordinary account of the ideas, affections and vexations that drove the group's most significant members. C. S. Lewis accepts Jesus Christ while riding in the sidecar of his brother's motorcycle, maps the medieval and Renaissance mind, becomes a world-famous evangelist and moral satirist, and creates new forms of religiously attuned fiction while wrestling with personal crises. J.R.R. Tolkien transmutes an invented mythology into gripping story in The Lord of the Rings, while conducting groundbreaking Old English scholarship and elucidating, for family and friends, the Catholic teachings at the heart of his vision. Owen Barfield, a philosopher for whom language is the key to all mysteries, becomes Lewis's favorite sparring partner, and, for a time, Saul Bellow's chosen guru. And Charles Williams, poet, author of "supernatural shockers," and strange acolyte of romantic love, turns his everyday life into a mystical pageant. Romantics who scorned rebellion, fantasists who prized reality, wartime writers who believed in hope, Christians with cosmic reach, the Inklings sought to revitalize literature and faith in the twentieth century's darkest years-and did so in dazzling style.
Author : J. R. R. Tolkien
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 116 pages
File Size : 53,7 Mb
Release : 2001
Category : Fantasy fiction, English
ISBN : 0965307883
Author : Michael D.C. Drout
Publisher : Routledge
Page : 810 pages
File Size : 44,7 Mb
Release : 2006-11-06
Category : Literary Criticism
ISBN : 9781135880330
A detailed work of reference and scholarship, this one volume Encyclopedia includes discussions of all the fundamental issues in Tolkien scholarship written by the leading scholars in the field. Coverage not only presents the most recent scholarship on J. R. R. Tolkien, but also introduces and explores the author and scholar's life and work within their historical and cultural contexts. Tolkien's fiction and his sources of influence are examined along with his artistic and academic achievements- including his translations of medieval texts- teaching posts, linguistic works, and the languages he created. The 550 alphabetically arranged entries fall within the following categories of topics: adaptations; art and illustrations; characters in Tolkien's work; critical history and scholarship; influence of Tolkien; languages; biography; literary sources; literature; creatures and peoples of Middle-earth; objects in Tolkien's work; places in Tolkien's work; reception of Tolkien; medieval scholars; scholarship by Tolkien; medieval literature; stylistic elements; themes in Tolkien's works; Theological/ philosophical concepts and philosophers; Tolkien's contemporary history and culture; works of literature.
Author : Wayne G. Hammond,Christina Scull
Publisher : William Morrow
Page : 986 pages
File Size : 41,9 Mb
Release : 2005
Category : Fiction
ISBN : STANFORD:36105114581718
In The Lord of the Rings: A Reader"s Companion, Wayne G. Hammond and Christina Scull unravel the story of how an epic battle has been fought to maintain the textual integrity of this huge story. Through hundreds of notes, which directly refer to the fiftieth anniversary edition of the novel, they provide a detailed account of how this incredible book has changed from one generation to the next. - Notes on significant changes made by the author and by ChristopherTolkien after his father"s death - Brief references to illustrations, maps, and earlier versions of the text - References to people, places, and events that appear in other books by Tolkien - Explanations of archaic and unusual words - Translations and primers on how to use Tolkien"s invented languages - Appearing for the first time, Tolkien"s own Guide to the Names in TheLord of the Rings The Lord of the Rings: A Reader"s Companion will provide uniqueinsight into the creative process of a true genius and will offer a detailedand informative account of how the book of the century has evolved.
Author : Mary Jo Tate
Publisher : Infobase Publishing
Page : 481 pages
File Size : 53,8 Mb
Release : 2007
Category : Authors, American
ISBN : 9781438108452
The Great Gatsby and its criticism of American society during the 1920s, F. Scott Fitzgerald claimed the distinction of writing what many consider to be the "great American novel." Critical Companion to F.
Author : Humphrey Carpenter
Publisher : HarperCollins UK
Page : 395 pages
File Size : 46,7 Mb
Release : 2011-04-28
Category : Biography & Autobiography
ISBN : 9780007381258
The original authorised biography, and the only one written by an author who actually met J.R.R. Tolkien.
