J.R.R. Tolkien's The Hobbit, The Lord of the Rings, and
Silmarillion have long been recognized as among the most popular
fiction of the twentieth century, and most critical analysis of
Tolkien has centered on these novels. Granted access by the
Tolkien estate and the Bodleian Library in Oxford to Tolkien's
unpublished writings, Verlyn Flieger uses them here to shed new
light on his better known works, revealing a new dimension of his
fictive vision and giving added depth of meaning to his writing.
Tolkien's concern with time—past and present, real and
"faerie"—captures the wonder and peril of travel into other
worlds, other times, other modes of consciousness. Reading
his work, we "fall wide asleep" into a dream more real than
ordinary waking experience, and emerge with a new perception of the
waking world. Flieger explores Tolkien's use of dream as
time-travel in his unfinished stories The Lost Road and The Notion
Club Papers as well as in The Lord of the Rings and his shorter
fiction and poetry. Analyzing Tolkien's treatment of time and
time-travel, Flieger shows that he was not just a mythmaker and
writer of escapist fantasy but a man whose relationship to his own
century was troubled and critical. He achieved in his
fiction a double perspective of time that enabled him to see in the
mirror of the past the clouded reflection of the present.
General
| Imprint: |
Kent State University Press
|
| Country of origin: |
United States |
| Release date: |
December 2001 |
| First published: |
June 2001 |
| Authors: |
Verlyn Flieger
|
| Dimensions: |
229 x 152 x 18mm (L x W x T) |
| Format: |
Paperback
|
| Pages: |
286 |
| ISBN-13: |
978-0-87338-699-9 |
| Categories: |
Books
|
| LSN: |
0-87338-699-X |
| Barcode: |
9780873386999 |
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