The definitive guide to the origin of J.R.R. Tolkien's books, from The Hobbit to The History of Middle-earth series -- includes unpublished Tolkien extracts and poetry. The Road to Middle-Earth is a fascinating and accessible exploration of J.R.R.Tolkien's creativity and the sources of his inspiration. Tom Shippey shows in detail how Tolkien's ...
This critical overview of Tolkien's most influential works, THE HOBBIT, THE LORD OF THE RINGS, and THE SILMARILLION, explores Tolkien's use and adaptation of myth and the derivation and consistency of his language, and makes a case that Tolkien does, in fact, deserve the honorific "author of the century," a title which he is consistently awarded ...
Elves and dwarves, trolls and giants, talking dragons, valkyries and werewolves: all these are familiar in modern movies and commercial fantasy. But where did the concepts come from? Who invented them? Almost two centuries ago, Jacob Grimm assembled what was known about such creatures in his work on 'Teutonic Mythology', which brought together ...
Will novels and stories be relevant in the next millenium, when the boundaries between illusion and reality, and observer and observed, may dissipate in a whirl of images, signals, and data? This essay collection divines the prospects of fiction in the information age by examining cyberpunk literature. A movement less than a decade old, cyberpunk ...
This guide contains entries on a wide range of science fiction and fantasy literature. It should be a valuable collection development tool and useful for school, public and academic libraries.
"Beowulf" is the oldest and most complete epic poem in any non-Classical European language. Our only manuscript, written in Old English, dates from close to the year 1000. However, the poem remained effectively unknown even to scholars till the year 1815, when it was first published in Copenhagen. This impressive volume selects over 100 works of ...
Professor T. A. Shippey writes in his introduction to the present volume: 'Speaking personally, Geoffrey Shepherd had a claim to being more influential on other medievalists than any other Englishman of his generation. ' His former pupils testify to his intelligence and subtlety, yet he never wrote a full-length book, and his scholarship survives ...
Will novels and stories be relevant in the next millenium, when the boundaries between illusion and reality, and observer and observed, may dissipate in a whirl of images, signals, and data? This essay collection divines the prospects of fiction in the information age by examining cyberpunk literature. A movement less than a decade old, cyberpunk ...
Is there a "postmodern" science fiction?. What is "cyberpunk?". What is going to happen to fiction in the next millennium?. How has science fiction coped with the big letdowns of the 1970s and 1980s, from the energy crisis to the NASA failures? These questions, and others, are asked and answered in this collection of eight essays by British and ...
The middle ages remain a prize to be fought for and a territory to control. From early modern times rulers and politicians have sought to ground their legitimacy in ancient tradition - which they have often invented or rewritten for their own purposes. The current issue of "Studies in Medievalism" presents a number of such cases, ranging from the ...
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