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From East to West - The Portrayal of Nature in British Fantasy and its Projection in Ursula K. Le Guin's Western American... From East to West - The Portrayal of Nature in British Fantasy and its Projection in Ursula K. Le Guin's Western American "Earthsea" (Paperback, New edition)
Martin Simonson, Jon Alkorta Martiartu
R1,245 Discovery Miles 12 450 Ships in 12 - 19 working days

The portrayal of nature in the genre of fantasy fiction, from the Middle Ages to more modern times, has been conditioned by the diverging social, political and historical contexts. This book seeks to disclose how the natural world has been depicted within this genre during different periods, drawing a comparison between the British tradition of fantasy literature and Ursula K. Le Guin's Earthsea cycle. Le Guin adheres to the general traits of the genre up to a point, but as a woman of the 20th century living in the American West, her works also deviate from the received tradition in many significant ways.

El Oeste Recuperado - La Literatura del Pasado Y La Construccion de Personajes En "El Senor de Los Anillos" (Spanish,... El Oeste Recuperado - La Literatura del Pasado Y La Construccion de Personajes En "El Senor de Los Anillos" (Spanish, Paperback)
Maria Jose Alvarez Faedo, Beatriz Penas Ibanez; Martin Simonson
R1,874 Discovery Miles 18 740 Ships in 12 - 19 working days

Tolkien no habria estado de acuerdo con el empleo del termino "Occidente" para hablar del espacio legendario y cultural que tenia en mente cuando reconstruyo y re-mitifico el pasado literario en su obra cumbre. El termino proviene de la Antiguedad Clasica y no abarca en su origen los territorios del vasto Norte, cuyas tradiciones literarias Tolkien tambien incorporo en su vision mitificada del Oeste. El Oeste de Tolkien sintetiza leyendas y expresiones literarias del oeste, norte y sur de Europa, y por ello los personajes de El Senor de los Anillos a menudo hunden sus raices en una multitud de generos literarios. El presente estudio recorre la evolucion de los personajes principales de la obra de Tolkien y explica, entre otras cosas, como el dialogo entre diferentes generos literarios puede dar cuenta de las aparentes incoherencias en el personaje de Aragorn, los diferentes papeles genericos que desempena Gandalf a lo largo de la historia, o como unos prosaicos hobbits, surgidos de la Inglaterra rural del siglo XIX, son capaces de relacionarse con los antiguos mundos epicos de Rohan y Gondor.

El Western Fantastico de Stephen King - Hibridizacion Y Desencantamiento de la Tradicion Literaria Europea En "El Pistolero"... El Western Fantastico de Stephen King - Hibridizacion Y Desencantamiento de la Tradicion Literaria Europea En "El Pistolero" (Spanish, Paperback)
Maria Jose Alvarez Faedo, Beatriz Penas Ibanez; Martin Simonson, Raul, Montero Gilete
R1,373 Discovery Miles 13 730 Ships in 12 - 19 working days

?Que importancia tenia la imagen mitificada del Oeste americano en la imaginacion de King durante la elaboracion de El Pistolero? Mucha, a juzgar por el resultado. Al mismo tiempo, parece que la fertil imaginacion de King se conjura con las referencias culturales contemporaneas. El propio autor confiesa su anhelo por crear una novela que contega el espiritu de busqueda, aventura y magia de El Senor de los Anillos (1954), pero situada en el espacio del lejano Oeste americano al estilo de la pelicula de spaghetti western El bueno, el feo y el malo (1966) de Leone. Con El Pistolero, King da otra vuelta de tuerca al mito del Oeste, y con el presente estudio pretendemos tender puentes entre diferentes tradiciones literarias para entender la particular indosincrasia de la obra de King, capaz de albergar las tradiciones narrativas de la Antigu edad Clasica, la epoca medieval y la moderna, con sus tintes goticos, romanticos y fantasticos, a la vez que desarrollar y modernizar el mito del Oeste americano e introducir al lector contemporaneo en un nuevo universo literario.

Nole Hyarmenillo - An Anthology of Iberian Scholarship on Tolkien (Paperback): Nuno Simoes Rodrigues, Martin Simonson, Angelica... Nole Hyarmenillo - An Anthology of Iberian Scholarship on Tolkien (Paperback)
Nuno Simoes Rodrigues, Martin Simonson, Angelica Varandas
R725 Discovery Miles 7 250 Ships in 10 - 15 working days
Representations of Nature in Middle-earth (Paperback): Martin Simonson Representations of Nature in Middle-earth (Paperback)
Martin Simonson
R736 Discovery Miles 7 360 Ships in 10 - 15 working days
The Lord of the Rings and the Western Narrative Tradition (Paperback): Martin Simonson The Lord of the Rings and the Western Narrative Tradition (Paperback)
Martin Simonson
R736 Discovery Miles 7 360 Ships in 10 - 15 working days

When The Lord of the Rings was published in the 1950's it did not sit comfortably among any preconceived notions of literary genre. The critical responses reflected the confusion: for some, it was an unwelcome reappearance of narrative standards that modernism was supposed to have done away with, or just a bad novel. Others considered it a refreshing work in the epic and romance traditions. Ironically, much of the critical prejudice regarding the question of genre in The Lord of the Rings has been motivated by the same kind of blindness that Tolkien denounced in his famous 1936 lecture Beowulf: the monsters and the critics. Like Beowulf, Tolkien's work has also failed to be properly appreciated and assessed due to a general refusal to accept the centrality of monsters, because despite its 'monstrous' originality and fantastic setting, it is very clearly, and not only chronologically, at the centre of twentieth-century literature. The Lord of the Rings and the Western Narrative Tradition is an attempt to account for the particular genre interaction that governs Tolkien's tale and put it in a meaningful relationship with the contemporary literary context. At the same time, it is a quest to track down one of the most famous and elusive literary monsters of the past century by filling out a long-neglected white space on the map of comparative literature and genre criticism.

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