Tolkien On Fairy-stories
Tolkien On Fairy-stories is a scholarly book edited by Verlyn Flieger and Douglas A. Anderson, published in 2008. The book is an expanded edition of J.R.R. Tolkien's acclaimed essay "On Fairy-stories", which expounds Tolkien's philosophy on fantasy and thoughts on mythopoiesis.
"On Fairy-stories" was originally a lecture delivered in 1939, Tolkien expanded and reworked it into an essay which was first published in Essays Presented to Charles Williams in 1947. The essay was revised and published in Tree and Leaf in 1964.
Contents
- Introduction
- Part One: The Essay
- — "On Fairy-stories"
- — Editors' Commentary
- — The History of "On Fairy-stories"
- Part Two: Contemporary Reports on the 1939 Lecture
- — The 1939 Newspaper Reports
- Part Three: The Manuscripts
- — Manuscript A
- — Manuscript A Commentary
- — Manuscript B
- — Manuscript B Commentary
- Bibliographies
- Index
Part One reprints the essay in full, the version published in Tree and Leaf (1964), provided with commentaries by the editors. Then follows the textual history of the work, including draft excerpts from both the 1947 version and the 1964 version.
No material from the original 1939 lecture survive, but Part Two gives two contemporary newspaper reports about the lecture, which give a glimpse into what the lecture might have looked like.
Part Three is a transcription of two earlier drafts of the essay, with much of the discarded writings preserved, which throws light on Tolkien's thought process on these topics.
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Referencias
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