Language:EnglishPublisher:Cambridge University PressISBN-13:9781009479677ISBN-10:1009479679UPC:9781009479677Book Category:Literary CriticismBook Subcategory:English, Irish, Scottish, WelshSize:8.60 x 5.70 x 1.40 inchesWeight:1.5013Product ID:SC9AX3DRS0
Taking his readers into the depths of a majestic and expansive literary world, one to which he brings fresh illumination as if to the darkness of Khazad-dûm, Giuseppe Pezzini combines rigorous scholarship with an engaging style to reveal the full scale of J. R. R. Tolkien's vision of the 'mystery of literary creation'. Through fragments garnered from across a scattered body of writing, and acute readings of primary texts (some well-known, others less familiar or recently published), the author divulges the unparalleled complexity of Tolkien's work while demonstrating its rich exploration of literature's very nature and purpose. Eschewing any overemphasis on context or comparisons, Pezzini offers rather a uniquely sustained, focused engagement with Tolkien and his 'theory' on their own terms. He helps us discover - or rediscover - a fascination for Tolkien's literary accomplishment while correcting long-standing biases against its nature and merits that have persisted fifty years after his death.
Language:EnglishPublisher:Cambridge University PressISBN-13:9781009479677ISBN-10:1009479679UPC:9781009479677Book Category:Literary CriticismBook Subcategory:English, Irish, Scottish, WelshSize:8.60 x 5.70 x 1.40 inchesWeight:1.5013Product ID:SC9AX3DRS0
Pezzini, Giuseppe: - Giuseppe Pezzini is a Fellow and Tutor at Corpus Christi College, Oxford, and an Associate Professor of Classics at Oxford University. A classicist by training, he has published extensively on Latin language and literature, Roman comedy, ancient philosophy of language, and fiction theory. With additional interests in textual criticism and the digital humanities, he is also a prominent Tolkien specialist, was the recipient of a 2021 Philip Leverhulme Prize, and currently serves as Tolkien Editor for the Journal of Inklings Studies.
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Taking his readers into the depths of a majestic and expansive literary world, one to which he brings fresh illumination as if to the darkness of Khazad-dûm, Giuseppe Pezzini combines rigorous scholarship with an engaging style to reveal the full scale of J. R. R. Tolkien's vision of the 'mystery of literary creation'. Through fragments garnered from across a scattered body of writing, and acute readings of primary texts (some well-known, others less familiar or recently published), the author divulges the unparalleled complexity of Tolkien's work while demonstrating its rich exploration of literature's very nature and purpose. Eschewing any overemphasis on context or comparisons, Pezzini offers rather a uniquely sustained, focused engagement with Tolkien and his 'theory' on their own terms. He helps us discover - or rediscover - a fascination for Tolkien's literary accomplishment while correcting long-standing biases against its nature and merits that have persisted fifty years after his death.
Pezzini, Giuseppe: - Giuseppe Pezzini is a Fellow and Tutor at Corpus Christi College, Oxford, and an Associate Professor of Classics at Oxford University. A classicist by training, he has published extensively on Latin language and literature, Roman comedy, ancient philosophy of language, and fiction theory. With additional interests in textual criticism and the digital humanities, he is also a prominent Tolkien specialist, was the recipient of a 2021 Philip Leverhulme Prize, and currently serves as Tolkien Editor for the Journal of Inklings Studies.
