Tolkien's Intellectual Landscape
Author:   E.L. Risden
Publisher:   McFarland & Co Inc
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9780786498659


Pages:   240
Publication Date:   18 March 2015
Recommended Age:   From 18 years
Format:   Paperback
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Author:   E.L. Risden
Publisher:   McFarland & Co Inc
Imprint:   McFarland & Co Inc
Dimensions:   Width: 15.20cm , Height: 1.20cm , Length: 22.90cm
Weight:   0.331kg
ISBN:  

9780786498659


ISBN 10:   078649865
Pages:   240
Publication Date:   18 March 2015
Recommended Age:   From 18 years
Audience:   General/trade ,  Adult education ,  General ,  Further / Higher Education
Format:   Paperback
Publisher's Status:   Active
Availability:   Available To Order   Availability explained
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Table of Contents

Table of Contents Introduction. The “Author of the Century” in His Century: Extending the Intellectual Landscape 1. Tolkien as Scholar, Narrator, Stylist 2. Heart of Darkness, Heart of Light: Externalizing the Internalized Quest 3. The World of the Text and the Expanding Waste Land 4. Tolkien on Heroism: Beorhtnoth, Aragorn, and Arthur 5. Epic, Faërie, and Myth: The Mortal and the Monstrous Body 6. Tolkien and Myth: Orientalism and Occidentalism 7. Good and Evil, Choice and Control 8. Teaching Tolkien and His World, and Why He Matters Afterword. Mechanized Landscape and Spiritual Landscape—In Retrospect Chapter Notes Bibliography Index

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Highly recommended --Choice; there are many great nuggets of insight into Tolkien's themes and techniques to be found here, and much else of great value besides --Magonia; this is a book which it is easy to commend...it is full of gems --Journal of Tolkien Research.


Highly recommended --<i>Choice</i>; there are many great nuggets of insight into Tolkien's themes and techniques to be found here, and much else of great value besides --<i>Magonia</i>; this is a book which it is easy to commend...it is full of gems --<i>Journal of Tolkien Research</i>.


Highly recommended --Choice there are many great nuggets of insight into Tolkien's themes and techniques to be found here, and much else of great value besides --Magonia this is a book which it is easy to commend...it is full of gems --Journal of Tolkien Research.


Author Information

E.L. Risden, emeritus professor of English at St. Norbert College, lives in De Pere, Wisconsin, where he continues to write literary and movie scholarship, speculative fiction, and occasional poetry.

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