B. Rosebury

Tolkien (eBook, PDF)

A Critical Assessment

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Produktbeschreibung

Few attempts have been made to arrive at a sober assessment of Tolkien's achievement as a literary artist, and even fewer to define a place for him in twentieth-century literature. This book is a comprehensive and discriminating introduction to Tolkien's work which also aims to redress these deficiencies in earlier criticism. Two chapters are devoted to The Lord of the Rings: a third explores the bewildering profusion of shorter works; the last considers the significance of Tolkien's life and career in the century of modernism.

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Produktdetails

• Verlag: Palgrave Macmillan UK
• Seitenzahl: 167
• Erscheinungstermin: 27. Juli 2016
• Englisch
• ISBN-13: 9781349221332
• Artikelnr.: 48838671

Autorenporträt

BRIAN ROSEBURY is the author of Art and Desire: A Study in the Aesthetics of Fiction (Palgrave/Macmillan, 1988), and of articles in Victorian Poetry, Philosophical Review, Political Quarterly and the British Journal of Aesthetics. He is Principal Lecturer in the Department of Humanities, University of Central Lancashire.

Inhaltsangabe

Introduction The Lord of the Rings: Conception The Lord of the Rings: Execution Shorter and Posthumous Writings Tolkien and theTwentieth Century Tolkien in the History of Ideas Reception and Adaptation Index

Rezensionen

'Brian Rosebury's book offers a compelling analysis of Tolkien as a thinker. Especially convincing are his accounts of Tolkien's views on free will, moral choice, and creativity, as these are woven into The Lord of the Rings and The Silmarillion. Rosebury also deftly exposes Tolkien's often disregarded skills in narrative and description, and he does it, like Tolkien, in plain English. The chapter on Tolkien's reception and transformation into the movies is the best available.' - Dr Tom Shippey, Walter J. Ong, S.J., Chair, Saint Louis University

'In this revised version of a book first published over a decade ago, Brian Rosebury sets out to reclaim Tolkien from the bestseller lists and reposition him as a serious literary figure. It is an attempt both largely convincing and long overdue...The book offers a necessary corrective to decades of misplaced snobbery and belittlement.' - Jon Barnes, Times Literary Supplement