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For years, Allan G. Turner has contributed to the academic study of the field of Fantasy literature, with special focus on the works of J.R.R. Tolkien. His colleagues and friends…
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As in the preceding volume (TolkieninTranslation), the studies presented here deal with a wide range of problems and challenges connected with the task of translating Tolkien’s work. Contributions do not…
Thomas Honegger
This book is an introduction written for both the scholar and the interested lay reader. It presents a fascinating topic - the medieval dragon - in an accessible and lucid…
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As a linguist and philologist, J.R.R. Tolkien used words and languages as a source of inspiration for his subcreation and continuously interwove them with his narratives. With language being so…
Selected papers from the Studientag zum englisches Mittelalter, SEM IV & V, held at Potsdam in 2002 & 2003.
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Richard Z Gallant
The theory of Northern Courage was Tolkien's designation for the heroic ethos found in 'Germanic' or Northern heroic lays and epics. He admired the old heroes, but wrestled with the…
Ce volume part de la conviction que l'intention du theatre moderne et contemporain ne peut etre saisie en dehors d'une reflexion sur la dimension du spectateur, a la fois en…
World-building, name-finding, language-crafting; the flaws in chivalric practice, and the ethics (Machiavellian and otherwise) that produce the moral complexities of Middle-earth and the Known World are the topics of Tweaking…
Dragons are a universal phenomenon and have fascinated humans since the dawn of time. Yet whereas we have numerous studies into the origins of these fantastic creatures, there have been…
The current volume, being the first of two dedicated to ‘Tolkien and Modernity’, grew out of the wish to further the exploration of Tolkien as a ‘contemporary writer’, i.e. an…
The current volume, being the second of two dedicated to ‘Tolkien and Modernity’, grew out of the wish to further the exploration of Tolkien as a ‘contemporary writer’, i.e. an…
In the year after his graduation from Exeter College, Oxford, the great mythopoeic work for which he would become famous was already germinating in Tolkien’s mind. In August 2006 the…
The nine contributions to Reconsidering Tolkien approach Tolkien’s work from a variety of theoretical viewpoints. Marion Gymnich, Eduardo Segura and Guillermo Peris discuss the importance of Language and languages for…
Comprises articles by Patrick Curry, Thomas Honegger and Christina Ljungberg. The first paper, by Thomas Honegger, looks at a structural instance of ‘depth’ in Tolkien’s work. Christina Ljungberg’s contribution discusses…
Gitta Honegger
A biography of Thomas Bernhard, literary figure of international acclaim and arguably Austria’s greatest post-World War II writer. The author examines Bernhard’s life and work and their intricate relationship to…
Der Band versammelt die Vortrage des DTG Tolkien Seminars 2015 (Aachen) sowie zahlreiche Rezensionen von 2014er und 2015er Neuerscheinungen aus der internationalen Tolkien-Forschung. Sprachen: Englisch und Deutsch.
Der Band versammelt die Vortrage des Tolkien Seminars 2016 (Jena).
News from the Shire and Beyond - Studies on Tolkien comprises selected papers of the Swiss Tolkien Society’s Cormare conference held at Seelisberg in 1996, and provides a cross-section of…
This volume presents papers by Tom Shippey, Verlyn Flieger, Colin Duriez, Patrick Curry, John Garth, Martin Simonson, Dieter Bachmann, Devin Brown, Miryam Libran-Moreno, Eugenio Olivares-Merino, Margarita Carretero-Gonzalez, Fernando J. Soto…
J.R.R. Tolkien’s literary cosmos may not be the most elaborate of the imaginary worlds in existence, it is certainly the most influential. His creation Arda remains unrivalled in its consistency…
This volume comprises selected papers of SEM VI to VIII (Studientage Englisches Mittelalter), held at Jena, Bochum, and Zurich between 2004 and 2007. It presents a representative cross-section of topics…
The volume launches the new series of the Medievalists’ Society. It focuses on the relationship between Man and God. Issues include the interrelationship of God’s image and the image of…
Sammlung der Vortrage auf dem 14. Tolkien Seminar der DTG, Oktober 2017, Universitat Augsburg.
Nicole Frey,Thomas Honegger,Thomas Hunkeler,Sylvie Jeanneret,Johannes Keller
Variations ist die komparatistische Literaturzeitschrift der Universitat Zurich. Der erste Teil ist einem thematischen Schwerpunkt gewidmet und enthalt literaturwissenschaftliche Beitrage, wahrend im zweiten, thematisch f
It is precisely against the darkness of the world that comedy arises, and it is best when that is not hidden. JRRT to R. Unwin Just like Tolkien’s first reviewer…
