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Title Sub-creating Arda : world-building in J.R.R. Tolkien's work, its precursors and its legacies / edited by Dimitra Fimi & Thomas Honegger.
Publisher Zurich : Walking Tree Publishers, 2019.


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 DUE 23-05-24  Standard  Library Level 9  English NT431 FIM2  

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Description vi, 464 pages : illustrations ; 24 cm
ISBN 9783905703405
3905703408
Bibliography Includes bibliographical references.
Contents Introduction / Dimitra Fimi & Thomas Honegger -- Concerning the "sub" in "subcreation": the act of creating under / Mark J.P. Wolf -- One pair of eyes: focalisation and worldbuilding / Allan Turner -- Worldbuilding and mythopoeia in Tolkien and post-Tolkienian fantasy literature / Massimiliano Izzo -- Beyond fantastic self-indulgence: aesthetic limits to world-building / Péter Kristóf Makai -- Worldbuilding design patterns in the works of J.R.R.Tolkien / N. Trevor Brierly -- Ilu's music: the creation of Tolkien's creation myth / John Garth -- On no magic in Tolkien: resisting the representational criteria of realism / Gergely Nagy -- Tolkien the tinkerer: world-building versus storytelling / Renée Vink -- Composition as exploration: fictional development in J.R.R. Tolkien's The Lord of the RIngs / Jonathan Nauman -- Temporal topographies: mapping the geological and anthropological effects of time in J.R.R. Tolkien's legendarium / Anahit Behrooz -- Sundering seas and watchers in the water: water as a subversive element in Middle-earth / Robin Markus Auer -- Lyrics on lost lands: constructing lost places through poetry in J.R.R. Tolkien's The Lord of the RIngs / Michaela Hausmann -- Mountain people in Middle-earth: ecology and the primitive / Hamish Williams -- Then Smaug spoke: on constructing the fantastic via dialogue in Tolkien's story cosmos / Timo Lothmann, Arndt Hildmann, Sven Hintzen -- Artefacts and immersion in the worldbuilding of Tolkien and the Brontes / Maureen F. Mann -- Sub-creation by any other name: the artist and God in the early twentieth century / Bradford Lee Eden -- A mythology for Poland: Andrzej Sapkowski's Witcher fantasy series as a Tolkienian subcreation / Kristine Larsen -- More than narrative: the role of paratexts in the world-building of Austin Tappan Wright, J.R.R. Tolkien and Ursula K. Le Guin / Andrew Higgins -- The faërie world of Michael Swanwick / Tom Shippey -- Absence of gods vs. absence of God: the spiritual landscapes of J.R.R. Tolkien's Middle-earth and George R.R. Martin's Westeros / Łukasz Neubauer.
Series Cormarë series ; no. 40.
Library Class English NT431
Subject Tolkien, J. R. R. (John Ronald Reuel), 1892-1973 -- Criticism and interpretation.
Creation (Literary, artistic, etc.)
Fantasy fiction -- History and criticism.
Other Author Fimi, Dimitra, editor.
Honneger, Thomas, editor.

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