Tolkien Studies: An Annual Scholarly Review, Volume VII

by Michael D.C. Drout (Editor), Douglas A Anderson (Editor), Verlyn Flieger (Editor)

Overview

Tolkien Studies: An Annual Scholarly Review presents the growing body of critical commentary and scholarship on both J. R. R. Tolkien's voluminous fiction and his academic work in literary and linguistic fields.

Product Details

ISBN-13:	9781938228599
Publisher:	West Virginia University Press
Publication date:	08/01/2010
Sold by:	Barnes & Noble
Format:	eBook
File size:	957 KB

About the Author

Douglas A. Anderson is an independent scholar whose first book was The Annotated Hobbit (1988; revised enlarged 2002). He helped correct the text of The Lord of the Rings in both the American and British editions, and these versions contain his introductory “Note on the Text.” He is also the lesser co-author (with Wayne G. Hammond) of J.R.R. Tolkien: A Descriptive Bibliography (1993).  He has edited is a reissue of E. A. Wyke-Smith’s The Marvellous Land of Snergs (1996), a children’s book originally published in 1927 that provided the impetus of Tolkien’s children’s book The Hobbit. His anthologies include Tales Before Tolkien (2003), H. P. Lovecraft’s Favorite Weird Tales (2005), and Tales Before Narnia (2008). With Verlyn Flieger, he co-edited Tolkien On Fairy-stories (2008). Michael D. C. Drout is the Prentice Professor and Chair of English at Wheaton College, Massachusetts, specializing in Anglo-Saxon and medieval literature, science fiction, and fantasy, especially the works of J. R. R. Tolkien and Ursula K. Le Guin. He is best known for his studies of Tolkien's scholarly work on Beowulf and the precursors and textual evolution of the essay Beowulf: the Monsters and the Critics, published as Beowulf and the Critics by J. R. R. Tolkien (2002), which won the Mythopoeic Award for Scholarship in Inklings Studies, 2003.

Verlyn Flieger is Emeritus Professor of English at the University of Maryland, where she specialized in Mythology and Folklore. Among her publications are A Question of Time: J. R. R. Tolkien’s Road to Faerie (1997), Splintered Light, Logos, and Language in Tolkien’s World (2002), and Interrupted Music: The Making of Tolkien’s Mythology (2005). With Douglas A. Anderson she edited Tolkien’s On Fairy-stories (2008).

Table of Contents

•Vladimir Brljak: The Books of Lost Tales: Tolkien as Metafictionist
•Peter Kristof Makai: Faërian Cyberdrama: When Fantasy becomes Virtual Reality
•Michael Milburn: Coleridge’s Definition of Imagination and Tolkien’s Definition(s) of Faery
•Thomas Fornet-Ponse: “Strange and free” —On Some Aspects of the Nature of Elves and Men
•Mary R. Bowman: Refining the Gold: Tolkien, The Battle of Maldon, and the Northern Theory of Courage
•Thomas Honegger: Fantasy, Escape, Recovery, and Consolation in Sir Orfeo: The Medieval Foundations of Tolkienian Fantasy
•Sherrylyn Branchaw: Elladan and Elrohir: The Dioscuri in The Lord of the Rings
•Yoko Hemmi: Tolkien’s The Lord of the Rings and His Concept of Native Language: Sindarin and British-Welsh
•Margaret Sinex: “Monsterized Saracens,” Tolkien’s Haradrim, and Other Medieval “Fantasy Products”
•Kristine Larsen: Myth, Milky Way, and the Mysteries of Tolkien’s Morwinyon, Telumendil, and Anarríma
•J.R.R. Tolkien: “The Story of Kullervo” and Essays on Kalevala, Transcribed and edited by Verlyn Flieger 
•John Garth: J.R.R. Tolkien and the Boy Who Didn’t Believe in Fairies
•Book Reviews, Compiled by Douglas A. Anderson
•David Bratman: The Year’s Work in Tolkien Studies 2007
•Rebecca Epstein, Michael D.C. Drout, and David Bratman: Bibliography (in English) for 2008