J. R. R. Tolkien, Scholar and Storyteller

Essays in Memoriam
Herausgeber: Salu, Mary; Farrell, Robert T

• Broschiertes Buch

Produktbeschreibung

This book, a moving and thoughtful tribute, offers fourteen essays dedicated to the both the scholarly work and fiction of J. R. R. Tolkien.

Produktdetails

• Verlag: Cornell University Press
• Seitenzahl: 328
• Erscheinungstermin: 15. April 2013
• Englisch
• Abmessung: 228mm x 154mm x 27mm
• Gewicht: 464g
• ISBN-13: 9780801478871
• ISBN-10: 0801478871
• Artikelnr.: 36931545

Autorenporträt

edited by Mary Salu and Robert T. Farrell

Inhaltsangabe

PrefacePart OneProfessor J. R. R. Tolkien: Obituary from The Times, London,
3 September 1973Valedictory Address to the University of Oxford, 5 June
1959
by J. R. R. Tolkien1. The Man and the Scholar
by S. T. R. O. d'ArdennePart Two2. Beowulf Lines 3074-3075
by A. J. Bliss3. Layamon's English Sources
by P. J. Frankis4. God, Death, and Loyalty in The Battle of Maldon
by Fred C. Robinson5. Geoweorpa: "Once Held in High Esteem"
by E. G. Stanley6. Narrative Insight in Laxdla Saga
by Ursula Dronke7. Nosce te ipsum: Some Medieval Interpretations
by J. A. W. Bennett8. Chaucer's Man of Law and His Tale: The Eccentric
Design
by Robert T. Farrell9. Chaucer and "Pite"
by Douglas Gray10. Make Believe: Chaucer's Rationale of Storytelling in
The House of Fame
by Geoffrey T. Shepherd11. Moral Chaucer and Kindly Gower
by Rosemary WoolfPart Three12. The Lord of the Rings as Romance
by Derek S. Brewer13. The Gospel of Middle-Earth according to J. R. R.
Tolkien
by William Dowie14. Creation from Philology in The Lord of the Rings
by T. A. ShippeyHandlist of the Published Writings of J. R. R. Tolkien
by Humphrey CarpenterIndex