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This volume presents papers by Tom Shippey, Verlyn Flieger, Colin
Duriez, Patrick Curry, John Garth, Martin Simonson, Dieter
Bachmann, Devin Brown, Miryam Librn-Moreno, Eugenio
Olivares-Merino, Margarita Carretero-Gonzlez, Fernando J. Soto
& Marta Garca de la Puerta, Eduardo Segura and Thomas Honegger.
The essays focus on the use of Myth, Magic, and Art in the works of
the Inklings and explore the interconnectedness of these concepts
in the thinking of the members of this group.
Root and Branch, which was first published in 1999, comprises
articles by Patrick Curry, Thomas Honegger and Christina Ljungberg.
The first paper, by Thomas Honegger, looks at a structural instance
of 'depth' in Tolkien's work by means of discussing the various
occurences of the Man in the Moon. Patrick's Curry extensive study
addresses the question of why Tolkien's work is simultaneously so
enduringly popular with readers and so abhorrent to literary
critics. Christina Ljungberg's contribution discusses parallels
between Tolkien's depiction of Nature and power and the one found
in Margaret Atwood's works. This second edition is a revised
reprint featuring four of the five items of the original edition.
The nine contributions to Reconsidering Tolkien approach Tolkien's
work from a variety of theoretical viewpoints. Marion Gymnich,
Eduardo Segura and Guillermo Peris discuss the importance of
Language and languages for Tolkien's narrative work, while Thomas
Honegger and Paul E. Kerry focus on the historical sources and the
historicising framework respectively. The essays by Natasa Tucev
and Jean-Christophe Dufau investigate the archetypal and mythic
dimensions. Dirk Vanderbeke, then, takes a critical look at
Tolkien's presentation of knowledge, and Martin Simonson discusses
the influence of World War I and Tolkien's relationship with
writers of 'high modernism'. Connie Veugen, finally, examines the
adaptation of the figure of Aragorn in different media. The
majority of the essays of this volume was presented at the ESSE
(European Society for the Study of English) 7 session on
'Reconsidering Tolkien' held at Zaragoza in September 2004. The
remaining contributions resulted from an additional call for papers
and were selected for inclusion by the board of editors.
News from the Shire and Beyond - Studies on Tolkien comprises
selected papers of the Swiss Tolkien Society's Cormar conference
held at Seelisberg in 1996, and provides a cross-section of topics
in the field of Tolkien studies. The spectrum ranges from
Johannesson's linguistic study of the Shire-talk, Honegger's
analysis of the narrative constitution of Middle-earth to Buchs'
and Nf's contributions on the representation of Tolkien's world in
the Middle-earth Collectible Card Game. It is a revised reprint
featuring five of the six items of the original 1997 edition.
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