Tolkien and the Mystery of Literary Creation

Inbunden, Engelska, 2025

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Beskrivning

Taking his readers into the depths of a majestic and expansive literary world, one to which he brings fresh illumination as if to the darkness of Khazad-d-m, Giuseppe Pezzini combines rigorous scholarship with an engaging style to reveal the full scale of J. R. R. Tolkien's vision of the 'mystery of literary creation'. Through fragments garnered from across a scattered body of writing, and acute readings of primary texts (some well-known, others less familiar or recently published), the author divulges the unparalleled complexity of Tolkien's work while demonstrating its rich exploration of literature's very nature and purpose. Eschewing any overemphasis on context or comparisons, Pezzini offers rather a uniquely sustained, focused engagement with Tolkien and his 'theory' on their own terms. He helps us discover - or rediscover - a fascination for Tolkien's literary accomplishment while correcting long-standing biases against its nature and merits that have persisted fifty years after his death.

Produktinformation

Utgivningsdatum:2025-05-08
Mått:149 x 222 x 31 mm
Vikt:690 g
Format:Inbunden
Språk:Engelska
Antal sidor:456
Förlag:Cambridge University Press
ISBN:9781009479677

Utforska kategorier

Fantasy inom Fantasy, SciFi och skräck

Mer om författaren

Giuseppe Pezzini is a Fellow and Tutor at Corpus Christi College, Oxford, and an Associate Professor of Classics at Oxford University. A classicist by training, he has published extensively on Latin language and literature, Roman comedy, ancient philosophy of language, and fiction theory. With additional interests in textual criticism and the digital humanities, he is also a prominent Tolkien specialist, was the recipient of a 2021 Philip Leverhulme Prize, and currently serves as Tolkien Editor for the Journal of Inklings Studies.

Recensioner i media

'Pezzini helps us relish Tolkien's vision: a passionate love of reality, a dedication to human freedom – and responsibility – within a rich ecology beyond our control, and a “death of the author” that does Roland Barthes one better, embracing all the imperfect splendor of the gifts of art we make to each other.' Lori Peterson Branch, Associate Professor of English, The University of Iowa

Innehållsförteckning

1. The cats of Queen Berúthiel: linguistic aesthetic and literature for its own sake; 2. The authors of the red book: meta-textual frames and writing as discovery and translation; 3. The Lords of the west: cloaking, freedom, and the hidden 'divine' narrative; 4. Beren and Frodo: intra-textual parallels, internal figuration, and the universality of the particular; 5. Gandalf's fall and return: sub-creative humility and the 'arising' of prophecy; 6. The next stage: the death of the author and the effoliation of creation; 7. Epilogue: a short introduction to the Ainulindalë.