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Celtic Myth in Contemporary Children's Fantasy - Idealization, Identity, Ideology (Hardcover, 1st ed. 2017): Dimitra Fimi Celtic Myth in Contemporary Children's Fantasy - Idealization, Identity, Ideology (Hardcover, 1st ed. 2017)
Dimitra Fimi
R3,736 Discovery Miles 37 360 Ships in 12 - 17 working days

Runner-up of the Katherine Briggs Folklore Award 2017 Winner of the Mythopoeic Scholarship Award for Myth & Fantasy Studies 2019 This book examines the creative uses of "Celtic" myth in contemporary fantasy written for children or young adults from the 1960s to the 2000s. Its scope ranges from classic children's fantasies such as Lloyd Alexander's The Chronicles of Prydain and Alan Garner's The Owl Service, to some of the most recent, award-winning fantasy authors of the last decade, such as Kate Thompson (The New Policeman) and Catherine Fisher (Darkhenge). The book focuses on the ways these fantasy works have appropriated and adapted Irish and Welsh medieval literature in order to highlight different perceptions of "Celticity." The term "Celtic" itself is interrogated in light of recent debates in Celtic studies, in order to explore a fictional representation of a national past that is often romanticized and political.

Tolkien, Race and Cultural History - From Fairies to Hobbits (Hardcover): Dimitra Fimi Tolkien, Race and Cultural History - From Fairies to Hobbits (Hardcover)
Dimitra Fimi
R3,527 Discovery Miles 35 270 Ships in 10 - 15 working days

Fimi explores the evolution of Tolkien's mythology throughout his lifetime by examining how it changed as a result of his life story and contemporary cultural and intellectual history. This new approach and scope brings to light neglected aspects of Tolkien's imaginative vision and contextualizes his fiction.

Imagining the Celtic Past in Modern Fantasy (Hardcover): Dimitra Fimi, Alistair J. P. Sims Imagining the Celtic Past in Modern Fantasy (Hardcover)
Dimitra Fimi, Alistair J. P. Sims
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R2,881 Discovery Miles 28 810 Ships in 12 - 17 working days

Focusing on representations of Celtic motifs and traditions in post-1980s adult fantasy literature, this book illuminates how the historical, the mythological and the folkloric have served as inspiration for the fantastic in modern and popular culture of the western world. Bringing together both highly-acclaimed works with those that have received less critical attention, including French and Gaelic fantasy literature, Imagining the Celtic Past in Modern Fantasy explores such texts as Susanna Clarke's Jonathan Strange & Mr Norrell, Alan Garner's Weirdstone trilogy, the Irish fantasies of Jodi McIsaac, David Gemmell's Rigante novels, Patricia Kennealy-Morrison Keltiad books, as well as An Sgoil Dhubh by Iain F. MacLeoid and the Vertigen and Frontier series by Lea Silhol. Lively and covering new ground, the collection examines topics such as fairy magic, Celtic-inspired worldbuilding, heroic patterns, classical ethnography and genre tropes alongside analyses of the Celtic Tarot in speculative fiction and Celtic appropriation in fan culture. Introducing a nuanced understanding of the Celtic past, as it has been informed by recent debates in Celtic studies, this wide-ranging and provocative book shows how modern fantasy is indebted to medieval Celtic-language texts, folkloric traditions, as well as classical sources.

A Secret Vice - Tolkien on Invented Languages (Paperback): J. R. R. Tolkien A Secret Vice - Tolkien on Invented Languages (Paperback)
J. R. R. Tolkien; Edited by Dimitra Fimi, Andrew Higgins
R447 R375 Discovery Miles 3 750 Save R72 (16%) Ships in 10 - 15 working days

First ever critical study of Tolkien’s little-known essay, which reveals how language invention shaped the creation of Middle-earth and beyond, to George R R Martin’s Game of Thrones. J.R.R. Tolkien’s linguistic invention was a fundamental part of his artistic output, to the extent that later on in life he attributed the existence of his mythology to the desire to give his languages a home and peoples to speak them. As Tolkien puts it in ‘A Secret Vice’, ‘the making of language and mythology are related functions’. In the 1930s, Tolkien composed and delivered two lectures, in which he explored these two key elements of his sub-creative methodology. The second of these, the seminal Andrew Lang Lecture for 1938–9, ‘On Fairy-Stories’, which he delivered at the University of St Andrews in Scotland, is well known. But many years before, in 1931, Tolkien gave a talk to a literary society entitled ‘A Hobby for the Home’, where he unveiled for the first time to a listening public the art that he had both himself encountered and been involved with since his earliest childhood: ‘the construction of imaginary languages in full or outline for amusement’. This talk would be edited by Christopher Tolkien for inclusion as ‘A Secret Vice’ in The Monsters and the Critics and Other Essays and serves as the principal exposition of Tolkien’s art of inventing languages. This new critical edition, which includes previously unpublished notes and drafts by Tolkien connected with the essay, including his ‘Essay on Phonetic Symbolism’, goes some way towards re-opening the debate on the importance of linguistic invention in Tolkien’s mythology and the role of imaginary languages in fantasy literature.

A Secret Vice - Tolkien on Invented Languages (Paperback): J. R. R. Tolkien A Secret Vice - Tolkien on Invented Languages (Paperback)
J. R. R. Tolkien; Edited by Dimitra Fimi, Andrew Higgins
R221 Discovery Miles 2 210 Ships in 12 - 17 working days

First ever critical study of Tolkien’s little-known essay, which reveals how language invention shaped the creation of Middle-earth and beyond, to George R R Martin’s Game of Thrones. J.R.R. Tolkien’s linguistic invention was a fundamental part of his artistic output, to the extent that later on in life he attributed the existence of his mythology to the desire to give his languages a home and peoples to speak them. As Tolkien puts it in ‘A Secret Vice’, ‘the making of language and mythology are related functions’. In the 1930s, Tolkien composed and delivered two lectures, in which he explored these two key elements of his sub-creative methodology. The second of these, the seminal Andrew Lang Lecture for 1938–9, ‘On Fairy-Stories’, which he delivered at the University of St Andrews in Scotland, is well known. But many years before, in 1931, Tolkien gave a talk to a literary society entitled ‘A Hobby for the Home’, where he unveiled for the first time to a listening public the art that he had both himself encountered and been involved with since his earliest childhood: ‘the construction of imaginary languages in full or outline for amusement’. This talk would be edited by Christopher Tolkien for inclusion as ‘A Secret Vice’ in The Monsters and the Critics and Other Essays and serves as the principal exposition of Tolkien’s art of inventing languages. This new critical edition, which includes previously unpublished notes and drafts by Tolkien connected with the essay, including his ‘Essay on Phonetic Symbolism’, goes some way towards re-opening the debate on the importance of linguistic invention in Tolkien’s mythology and the role of imaginary languages in fantasy literature.

Tolkien, Race and Cultural History - From Fairies to Hobbits (Paperback): Dimitra Fimi Tolkien, Race and Cultural History - From Fairies to Hobbits (Paperback)
Dimitra Fimi
R1,438 R808 Discovery Miles 8 080 Save R630 (44%) Ships in 12 - 17 working days

Fimi explores the evolution of Tolkien's mythology throughout his lifetime by examining how it changed as a result of his life story and contemporary cultural and intellectual history. This new approach and scope brings to light neglected aspects of Tolkien's imaginative vision and contextualizes his fiction.

Sub-creating Arda - World-building in J.R.R. Tolkien's Work, its Precursors and its Legacies (Paperback): Dimitra Fimi,... Sub-creating Arda - World-building in J.R.R. Tolkien's Work, its Precursors and its Legacies (Paperback)
Dimitra Fimi, Thomas M. Honegger
R945 Discovery Miles 9 450 Ships in 10 - 15 working days
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