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Splintered Light: Logos and Language in Tolkien's World
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Description for Splintered Light: Logos and Language in Tolkien's World
Paperback. Verlyn Flieger's expanded and updated edition of "Splintered Light", a study of Tolkien's fiction first published in 1983, examines "The Silmarillion" and "The Lord of the Rings" in light of Owen Barfield's linguistic theory of the fragmentation of meaning. Num Pages: 208 pages, notes, bibliography, index. BIC Classification: 2AB; CFG; DSBH; DSK. Category: (P) Professional & Vocational; (UP) Postgraduate, Research & Scholarly; (UU) Undergraduate. Dimension: 216 x 140 x 14. Weight in Grams: 308.
J. R. R. Tolkien is perhaps best known for The Hobbit and The Lord of the Rings, but it is in The Silmarillion that the true depth of Tolkien's Middle-earth can be understood. The Silmarillion was written before, during, and after Tolkien wrote The Hobbit and The Lord of the Rings. A collection of stories, it provides information alluded to in Tolkien's better known works and, in doing so, turns The Lord of the Rings into much more than a sequel to The Hobbit, making it instead a continuation of the mythology of Middle-earth. Verlyn Flieger's expanded and updated edition ... Read more
J. R. R. Tolkien is perhaps best known for The Hobbit and The Lord of the Rings, but it is in The Silmarillion that the true depth of Tolkien's Middle-earth can be understood. The Silmarillion was written before, during, and after Tolkien wrote The Hobbit and The Lord of the Rings. A collection of stories, it provides information alluded to in Tolkien's better known works and, in doing so, turns The Lord of the Rings into much more than a sequel to The Hobbit, making it instead a continuation of the mythology of Middle-earth. Verlyn Flieger's expanded and updated edition ... Read more
Product Details
Publisher
Kent State University Press
Format
Paperback
Publication date
2002
Condition
New
Number of Pages
208
Place of Publication
Kent, OH, United States
ISBN
9780873387446
SKU
V9780873387446
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Verlyn Flieger is Professor of English at the University of Maryland at College Park. She is the author of A Question of Time. J. R. R. Tolkien's Road to Faeric (Kent State University Press, 1977, and co-editor with Carl Hostetter of Tolkien's Legendarium: Essays on the History of Middle-earth (Greenwood Press, 2000).
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