Toby Widdicombe

J.R.R. Tolkien (eBook, PDF)

A Guide for the Perplexed

• Format: PDF

Produktbeschreibung

With his richly detailed world of Middle Earth and the epic tales he told around it, J.R.R. Tolkien invented the modern fantasy novel. For readers and students getting to grips with this world for the first time, J.R.R. Tolkien: A Guide for the Perplexed is an essential guide to the author's life and work.

The book helps readers explore:

· Tolkien's life and times
· Tolkien's mythical world
· The languages of Middle Earth
· The major works - The Hobbit and The Lord of the Rings
· Posthumously published writings - from The Silmarillion to the recently discovered The Fall of Gondolin

With reference to adaptations of Tolkien's work including the Peter Jackson films, notes on Tolkien's sources and surveys of key scholarly and critical writings, this is an accessible and authoritative guide to one of the 20th century's greatest and most popular writers.

Produktdetails

• Verlag: Bloomsbury UK eBooks
• Seitenzahl: 208
• Erscheinungstermin: 14. November 2019
• Englisch
• ISBN-13: 9781350092167
• Artikelnr.: 57762034

Autorenporträt

Toby Widdicombe is Professor of English at the University of Alaska Anchorage in the United States. His previous books include Simply Shakespeare and A Reader's Guide to Raymond Chandler. He is the former editor of the international academic journal Utopian Studies and the current editor of the sf wiki Clockworks 2.

TOBY WIDDICOMBE is an associate professor in the Department of English at the University of Alaska Anchorage. His interests include American literature and culture, detective fiction, utopianism, and the literature of war. He has written books on Edward Bellamy and on American culture in the 1830s, and his articles have appeared in such journals as English Language Notes, American Transcendental Quarterly, Utopian Studies, and Emerson Society Quarterly.

Inhaltsangabe

Acknowledgements
Foreword
Introduction
Chapter 1: Tolkien's Life and Art
Chapter 2: Tolkien's Legendarium
Chapter 3: Tolkien and His Languages
Chapter 4: Tolkien on Time
Chapter 5: Tolkien on Peoples
Chapter 6: Tolkien's Themes
Afterword
Appendix A: Tolkien's Sources
Appendix B: Films of the Legendarium
Appendix C: The Scholarship on Tolkien
References