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A scholar explores the ideas within The Lord of the Rings and the world created by J. R. R. Tolkien: “A most valuable and timely book” (Ursula K. Le Guin, Los Angeles Times–bestselling author of Changing Planes).
What are millions of readers all over the world getting out of reading the Lord of the Rings trilogy? Defending Middle-earth argues, in part,...
What are millions of readers all over the world getting out of reading the Lord of the Rings trilogy? Defending Middle-earth argues, in part,...
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A truly magical story that manages to transport the reader and make them enjoy a fantasy world that only some minds are capable of creating. With an elaborate, careful, sober, elegant language. Some descriptions in which, without even realizing it, you are involved in it, in each passage, with the vision that only a child would know how to enjoy. The characters seemed fantastic to me; Mr. Don Tiempo, Mr. Sueño, the Knight of the Days, the fairy Misfortune...really...
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Este libro explora lo fantástico en la literatura peruana a través de un conjunto de ensayos dedicados a Clemente Palma, Abraham Valdelomar, César Vallejo, Julio Ramón Ribeyro, Luis Loayza, José Durand, Manuel Mejía Valera, José B. Adolph, Rodolfo Hinostroza, Harry Belevan, Carlos Calderón Fajardo y Enrique Prochazka; quienes contribuyen a la narrativa que cuestiona los usos realistas habituales.
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Death and Immortality in Middle-earth: Proceedings of The Tolkien Society Seminar 2016
J.R.R. Tolkien deplored allegory and rejected any suggestion that The Lord of the Rings has an inner meaning or message. In reading back the tale, however, he became aware of a dominant motif: 'The real theme for me is… Death and Immortality: the mystery of the love of the world in the hearts of a race "doomed" to leave and seemingly lose it; the anguish in the...
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The Road to Middle-earth, Tom Shippey's classic work, now revised in paperback, explores J. R. R. Tolkien's creativity and the sources of his inspiration. Shippey shows in detail how Tolkien's professional background led him to write The Hobbit and how he created a timeless charm for millions of readers. Examining the foundation of Tolkien's most popular work, The Lord of the Rings, Shippey also discusses the contribution of The Silmarillion and Unfinished...
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The papers focus on the theme of love and relationships in fantasy and science fiction, in all their forms, in different media.
Featuring papers from Josephine Maria Yanasak- Leszczynski, Cheryl Wollner, Cheryl Morgan, AJ Dalton, Tatiana Fajardo, Christina Lake, Lynn O'Connacht, Steph P. Bianchini, Ezeiyoke Chukwunonso, Barbara Stevenson, Dr. Ester Torredelforth.
7) Microworlds
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The author of Solaris critiques science fiction in a collection of provocative essays. In this bold and controversial examination of the past, present, and future of science fiction, Lem informs the raging debate over the literary merit of the genre with ten arch, incisive, provocative essays. Edited and with an Introduction by Franz Rottensteiner. Translated by Rottensteiner and others. A Helen and Kurt Wolff Book
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The First and Second Ages within Tolkien's legendarium feel like a time far removed from that of The Hobbit and The Lord of the Rings even though they constitute the underpinnings of J.R.R. Tolkien's entire mythology.
This book explores those underpinnings and in particular the nature of good and evil, creators and destroyers, and the very foundations of the world itself. It is a diverse collection of four articles, which will no doubt cause the...
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The papers focus on the theme of worldbuilding in fantasy and science fiction, in all its forms, in different media. Featuring papers from Ricardo Victoria-Uribe and Martha Elba González- Alcaraz, Allen Stroud, Sarah McPherson, Sébastien Doubinsky, Cheryl Morgan, Peter Garrett, Eugen Bacon, Octavia Cade, Enrico Spadaro, Tatiana Fajardo, Claire Burgess, Ellen Forget, Kevin Cooney, Jyrki Korpua, Rachel Jones.
10) Uncanny Bodies
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One hundred years ago Freud's definition of the uncanny was 'not the strange, but the familiar become strange'. In this anthology of new work from a range of writers and academics, the uncanny is a place where you feel at home – until home turns against you. It's a city where the streets can't join up. The uncanny alienates your own body from you through medical advances, such as prosthetic limbs or cardiac defibrillators. The 'uncanny valley' is...
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This volume of proceedings contains papers from the largest and, perhaps, most diverse Tolkien Society Seminar to date.
Following a much-contested Call for Papers, 'Tolkien the Pagan? Reading Middle-earth through a Spiritual Lens' explores Tolkien's complex use of religious ideology, the readers' approach to their beloved fictional world via unusual spiritual and philosophical channels, and how Middle-earth almost became a faith unto itself.
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Mark Payne is the Chester D. Tripp Professor in the Departments of Classics and Comparative Literature, the John U. Nef Committee on Social Thought, and the College at the University of Chicago. His books include Theocritus and the Invention of Fiction, The Animal Part, and Hontology.
An exploration of postapocalyptic fiction, from antiquity to today, and its connections to political theory and other literary genres
The literary lineage of postapocalyptic...
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Afrontar un primer acercamiento a la ciencia ficción y sus análisis es siempre complejo. Por una parte, las propias características del género implican una manera muy diferente de entender los análisis literarios. Por otra parte, el profano se encontrará con un tipo de virtudes y concepciones de la literatura que supondrán un esfuerzo al que no está acostumbrado. Por eso suele decirse que es rara la persona que se vuelve incondicional del...
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Les monstres ont toujours existé, et on les représente au moins depuis l'Antiquité. Pourtant, ce terme qui était populaire il y a quelques décennies à peine est rarement énoncé de nos jours, sauf — essentiellement — dans une perspective morale (ou moralisatrice). On peut néanmoins trouver un sens à la monstruosité; mais comment la définir de la manière la plus neutre possible ? On pourrait avancer, prudemment, qu'il s'agit d'un écart...
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Middle Earth, Gandalf, Frodo, Bilbo: The places and characters that sprang from the mind of J.R.R. Tolkien will live forever in the imaginations of millions of readers. In Hobbits, Elves, and Wizards, Michael Stanton, a scholar of science fiction and fantasy literature, offers an extraordinary encounter with The Lord of the Rings. Believing that there is no epic of contemporary literature to match The Lord of the Rings, Stanton delves critically into...
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Age of Wonders: Exploring the World of Science Fiction gives an insider's view of the strange and wonderful world of science fiction, by one of the most respected editors in the field, David G. Hartwell (1941-2016).
David G. Hartwell edited science fiction and fantasy for over twenty years. In that time, he worked with acclaimed and popular writers such as Robert A. Heinlein, Poul Anderson, Frank Herbert, Roger Zelazny, Robert Silverberg, Gene...
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Poetry and Song in the Works of J.R.R. Tolkien: proceedings of the Tolkien Society Seminar 2017.
J.R.R. Tolkien regarded himself 'chiefly as a poet' (Carpenter, The Inklings, p. 29) and the importance of poetic diction and its most potent form, song, provides a powerful leitmotif to his mythological universe. Following the publication of Tolkien's two verse works: The Lay of Atrou and Itroun (2016) and Beren, and Luthien (2017), the Tolkien Society...
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En los años previos a la caída del reino musulmán de Granada, un erudito de esas tierras, el sabio Lisán al-Aysa, se embarca en una expedición fabulosa. ¿Su meta? Todo un mundo sobre el que, según sus investigaciones, está convencido de que se haya al otro lado del océano Atlántico.
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"The most enjoyable work on Tolkien I have read in many years" Christina Scull
Aragorn. Strider. King. Ranger. He is one of the most famous and celebrated characters in the history of popular literature. But, how much do you really know about the man?
This book is a biographical study of Aragorn, covering his ancestry, pre-birth prophecies, the various stages of his life, and his death early in the Fourth Age. There is particular emphasis on the struggles...
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