Tolkien

B. Rosebury

ISBN 10: 1403912637 / ISBN 13: 9781403912633

Published by SPRINGER NATURE Okt 2003, 2003

About this Item

This item is printed on demand - it takes 3-4 days longer - Neuware -This comprehensive and discriminating account of Tolkien's work has been revised and expanded, to take account both of recent developments in scholarship, and of the recent films directed by Peter Jackson. Tracing the development of Tolkien's creative technique over several decades, it explores the bewildering profusion of shorter works, as well as devoting an extended analysis to The Lord of the Rings . Chapters consider Tolkien's contribution to the history of ideas, and review the reception of the Lord of the Rings film adaptations and other popular adaptations of his work. 246 pp. Englisch.

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Bibliographic Details

• Title: Tolkien
• Publisher: SPRINGER NATURE Okt 2003
• Publication Date: 2003
• Language: English
• ISBN 10: 1403912637
• ISBN 13: 9781403912633
• Binding: Taschenbuch
• Edition: 2nd Edition
• Condition: Neu

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Synopsis

This comprehensive and discriminating account of Tolkien's work has been revised and expanded, to take account both of recent developments in scholarship, and of the recent films directed by Peter Jackson. Tracing the development of Tolkien's creative technique over several decades, it explores the bewildering profusion of shorter works, as well as devoting an extended analysis to The Lord of the Rings . Chapters consider Tolkien's contribution to the history of ideas, and review the reception of the Lord of the Rings film adaptations and other popular adaptations of his work.

About the Author

BRIAN ROSEBURY is the author of Art and Desire: A Study in the Aesthetics of Fiction (Palgrave/Macmillan, 1988), and of articles in Victorian Poetry, Philosophical Review, Political Quarterly and the British Journal of Aesthetics. He is Principal Lecturer in the Department of Humanities, University of Central Lancashire.