Verlyn Flieger

Broschiertes Buch

Splintered Light

Logos and Language in Tolkien's World

Herausgeber: Flieger, Verlyn

Beschreibung

Verlyn Flieger's expanded and updated edition of ""Splintered Light"", a study of Tolkien's fiction first published in 1983, examines ""The Silmarillion"" and ""The Lord of the Rings"" in light of Owen Barfield's linguistic theory of the fragmentation of meaning.

Autor

Verlyn Flieger is professor emerita of English at the University of Maryland where she teaches courses on Tolkien, medieval and modern literature, and comparative mythology. She has written three books on Tolkien: Splintered Light, A Question of Time, and Interrupted Music (all published by The Kent State University Press). She has also edited a critical edition of Tolkien's novella Smith of Wootton Major, and an expanded edition with notes and commentary of Tolkien's most influential theoretical essay, On Fairy-Stories.

Produktdetails

• Verlag: Kent State University Press
• 2nd Revised edition
• Seitenzahl: 208
• Erscheinungstermin: 28. Januar 2002
• Englisch
• Abmessung: 150mm x 225mm x 18mm
• Gewicht: 364g
• ISBN-13: 9780873387446
• ISBN-10: 0873387449
• Artikelnr.: 21359813