Tolkien and the Study of His Sources
Tolkien and the Study of His Sources: Critical Essays, edited by Jason Fisher, is a collection of essays — dealing with source criticism — on J.R.R. Tolkien's works. The book was awarded the Mythopoeic Society's 2014 Mythopoeic Scholarship Award for Inklings Studies.
Tolkien and the Study of His Sources includes "new primary material: quotations from a handful of previously unpublished letters as well as from Tolkien’s unpublished lecture notes on the 'Legends of the Goths'".
Contents
- "Introduction: Why Source Criticism?" (Tom Shippey)
- "Source Criticism: Background and Applications" (E.L. Risden)
- "Tolkien and Source Criticism: Remarking and Remaking" (Jason Fisher)
- "The Stones and the Book: Tolkien, Mesopotamia, and Biblical Mythopoeia" (Nicholas Birns)
- "Sea Birds and Morning Stars: Ceyx, Alcyone, and the Many Metamorphoses of Eärendil and Elwing" (Kristine Larsen)
- "'Byzantium, New Rome!': Goths, Langobards, and Byzantium in The Lord of the Rings" (Miryam Librán-Moreno)
- "The Rohirrim: 'Anglo-Saxons on Horseback'? An Inquiry into Tolkien's Use of Sources" (Thomas Honegger)
- "William Caxton's The Golden Legend as a Source for J.R.R. Tolkien's The Lord of the Rings" (Judy Ann Ford)
- "She and Tolkien, Revisited" (John D. Rateliff)
- "Reading John Buchan in Search of J.R.R. Tolkien" (Mark T. Hooker)
- "Biography as Source: Niggles and Notions" (Diana Pavlac Glyer and Josh B. Long)
Referencias
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