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A Real Taste for Fairy-stories: Essays by Verlyn Flieger

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Availability:In StockContributor:Verlyn FliegerSeries:Cormar? #54Publish date:6/15/2025Pages:232
Language:EnglishPublisher:Walking Tree PublishersISBN-13:9783905703542ISBN-10:3905703548UPC:9783905703542Book Category:Literary CriticismBook Subcategory:Science Fiction & FantasySize:9.21 x 6.14 x 0.49 inchesWeight:0.7297Product ID:SCM8FQAT30

This volume of essays comprises more than a dozen of essays by one of the leading Tolkien scholars in which she addresses central questions concerning the status, structure, and meaning of Tolkien's work for a 21st century audience.

Tolkien scholar Verlyn Flieger is author of A Question of Time. J.R.R. Tolkien's Road to Faërie (1997), Splintered Light. Logos and Language in Tolkien's World (2002), and Interrupted Music. The Making of Tolkien's Mythology (2005). She has published three collections of essays on Tolkien and was responsible for the publication of editions of Smith of Wootton Major, Aotrou and Itroun and The Story of Kullervo.

Language:EnglishPublisher:Walking Tree PublishersISBN-13:9783905703542ISBN-10:3905703548UPC:9783905703542Book Category:Literary CriticismBook Subcategory:Science Fiction & FantasySize:9.21 x 6.14 x 0.49 inchesWeight:0.7297Product ID:SCM8FQAT30
Flieger, Verlyn: - Verlyn Flieger is Professor Emerita in the Department of English at the University of Maryland, where for 36 years she taught courses in Tolkien, Medieval Literature, and Comparative Mythology. She is the author of five critical books on the work of J.R.R. Tolkien, Splintered Light, A Question of Time, Interrupted Music, Green Suns and Faërie: Essays on J.R.R. Tolkien, and There Would Always Be A Fairy Tale: More Essays on Tolkien. She edited the Extended edition of Tolkien's Smith of Wootton Major. With Carl Hostetter she edited Tolkien's Legendarium: Essays on The History of Middle-earth, and with Douglas A. Anderson she edited the Expanded Edition of Tolkien On Fairy-Stories. With Michael D.C. Drout and Douglas A. Anderson she was a founder of the yearly journal Tolkien Studies.
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