| Description |
vii, 232 pages ; 23 cm |
| ISBN |
9780786498659 paperback |
| Bibliography |
Includes bibliographical references and index. |
| Contents |
Introduction: The "author of the century" in his century: extending the intellectual landscape -- Tolkien as scholar, narrator, stylist -- Heart of darkness, heart of light: externalizing the internalized quest -- The world of the text and the expanding waste land -- Tolkien on heroism: Beorhtnoth, Aragorn, and Arthur -- Epic, faerie, and myth: the mortal and the monstrous body -- Tolkien and myth: orientalism and occidentaliism -- Good and evil, choice and control -- Teaching Tolkien and his world, and why he matters -- Afterword: Mechanized landscape and spiritual landscape - in retrospect. |
| Library Class |
English NT431
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| Subject |
Tolkien, J. R. R. (John Ronald Reuel), 1892-1973 -- Influence.
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Influence (Literary, artistic, etc.)
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