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by Jyrki Korpua
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Availability:In StockContributor:Jyrki KorpuaSeries:Routledge Focus on LiteraturePublish date:2024-08-19Pages:108
Language:EnglishPublisher:RoutledgeISBN-13:9781032852270ISBN-10:1032852275UPC:9781032852270Book Category:Literary CriticismBook Subcategory:Science Fiction & Fantasy, Modern, EuropeanBook Topic:20th Century, ScandinavianSize:8.50 x 5.50 x 0.31 inchesWeight:0.6415Product ID:SC331RNG6Y

Tolkien and the Kalevala

This book explores J. R. R. Tolkien's unique and warm relationship to the Kalevala, a poem usually hailed as the Finnish and Karelian national epic, combiled, edited and partly revisioned from older folk poetry by Finnish scholar Elias L?nnrot in the 19th century.

Series: Routledge Focus on Literature
Language:EnglishPublisher:RoutledgeISBN-13:9781032852270ISBN-10:1032852275UPC:9781032852270Book Category:Literary CriticismBook Subcategory:Science Fiction & Fantasy, Modern, EuropeanBook Topic:20th Century, ScandinavianSize:8.50 x 5.50 x 0.31 inchesWeight:0.6415Product ID:SC331RNG6Y

Jyrki Korpua, PhD, is a researcher of literature at the University of Oulu. His books include Alussa oli Sana - Raamattu ja kirjallisuus ("The Bible and Literature", 2016, in Finnish), New Perspectives to Dystopian Fiction (2020, edited with Saija Isomaa & Jouni Teittinen) and The Mythopoeic Code of Tolkien: A Christian Platonic Reading of the Legendarium (2021). His research interests...

Publisher: Routledge

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