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There Would Always Be a Fairy Tale : More Essays on Tolkien.
Devoted to Tolkien, the teller of tales and co-creator of the myths they brush against, these essays focus on his lifelong interest in and engagement with fairy stories, the special world that he called faërie, a world they both create and inhabit, and with the elements that make that world the spe...
| Clasificación: | Libro Electrónico |
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| Formato: | Electrónico eBook |
| Idioma: | Inglés |
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Ashland :
The Kent State University Press,
2017.
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| Acceso en línea: | Texto completo |
Tabla de Contenidos:
- Cover; Copyright; Dedication; Contents; Acknowledgments; Introduction; Style, Usage, and Abbreviations; Note to the Reader; Part One: â#x80;#x9C;A Perilous Landâ#x80;#x9D;: Defining Fañrie; â#x80;#x9C;There Would Always Be a â#x80;#x98;Fairy-taleâ#x80;#x99;â#x80;#x9D;: J.R.R. Tolkien and the Folklore Controversy; But What Did He Really Mean?; Re-creating Reality; War, Death, and Fairy Stories in the Work of J.R.R. Tolkien; Eucatastrophe and the Dark; Part Two: â#x80;#x9C;Fañrie Beginsâ#x80;#x9D;: The Nuts and Bolts of Sub-creation; Words and World-making: The Particle Physics of Middle-earth.
- Myth, History, and Time-travel: The Lost Road and The Notion Club PapersPolitically Incorrect Tolkien; The Jewels, the Stone, the Ring, and the Making of Meaning; Making Choices: Moral Ambiguity in Tolkienâ#x80;#x99;s Major Fiction; Part Three: â#x80;#x9C;Arresting Strangenessâ#x80;#x9D;: Making It Different; The Forests and the Trees: Sal and Ian in Fañrie; How Trees Behaveâ#x80;#x94;Or Do They?; Myth and Truth in Tolkienâ#x80;#x99;s Legendarium; Fays, Corrigans, Elves, and More: Tolkienâ#x80;#x99;s Dark Ladies; Part Four: Boiling Bones; Serving Soup; Tolkien, Kalevala, and Middle-earth; Tolkienâ#x80;#x99;s Celtic Connection.
- Tolkienâ#x80;#x99;s French ConnectionDrowned Lands; Voyaging About: Tolkien and Celtic Navigatio; Permissions and Acknowledgments; Notes; Works Cited.