J.R.R. Tolkien's double worlds and creative process [electronic resource] : language and life / Arne Zettersten.
2011
PR6039.O32 Z48 2011eb
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J.R.R. Tolkien's double worlds and creative process [electronic resource] : language and life / Arne Zettersten.
Author
Zettersten, Arne.
Edition
1st ed.
ISBN
9780230118409 (electronic bk.)
9780230623149 (hardback)
9780230623149 (hardback)
Imprint
New York : Palgrave Macmillan, 2011.
Language
English
Description
1 online resource (xi, 243 p.) : ill.
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PR6039.O32 Z48 2011eb
Dewey Decimal Classification
823/.912
Summary
"A close colleague of J.R.R. Tolkein for many years, Arne Zettersten offers here a personally informed analysis of Tolkien's strongly visual fantasy fiction. In light of Tolkein's unusual life experience and enthusiasm for the study of languages, Zettersten finds in Tolkein's fiction the same animating passions that drove that great author as a youth, a soldier, a linguist, and an Oxford Don"-- Provided by publisher.
"A Swedish linguist, Professor Arne Zettersten, worked and published within the same project as Tolkien to edit the various manuscripts of the Ancrene Wisse for the Early English Text Society, Oxford. The situation is unique in that Zettersten acquired first hand knowledge of how Tolkien related to languages, university studies and both scholarly and fictional writing. The book is a new comprehensive reading and analysis of Tolkien's strongly visualizing fantasy fiction, here examined in relation to his scholarly research in its totality and his unusual life experience. Into this new reading Zettersten weaves his memories of the linguistic equilibrist who spoke, wrote and reconstructed living, dead and invented languages. Zettersten approaches Tolkien's creative process through a review of his life within his near-simultaneous, different worlds. These were characterized by changes between his primary, real world, and his secondary, fictional world, between research and fantasy, between evil and humanity, in fiction as in real life"-- Provided by publisher.
"A Swedish linguist, Professor Arne Zettersten, worked and published within the same project as Tolkien to edit the various manuscripts of the Ancrene Wisse for the Early English Text Society, Oxford. The situation is unique in that Zettersten acquired first hand knowledge of how Tolkien related to languages, university studies and both scholarly and fictional writing. The book is a new comprehensive reading and analysis of Tolkien's strongly visualizing fantasy fiction, here examined in relation to his scholarly research in its totality and his unusual life experience. Into this new reading Zettersten weaves his memories of the linguistic equilibrist who spoke, wrote and reconstructed living, dead and invented languages. Zettersten approaches Tolkien's creative process through a review of his life within his near-simultaneous, different worlds. These were characterized by changes between his primary, real world, and his secondary, fictional world, between research and fantasy, between evil and humanity, in fiction as in real life"-- Provided by publisher.
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Table of Contents
Our first meeting
Language behind everything
Like lightning from a clear sky
Tolkien's double worlds
Middle-earth
From Bloemfontein to Birmingham
From Sarehole to Shire
An orphan drawn to reading
Student life in Oxford
Soldier at the front
Experience of war in Tolkien's fiction
Research as motor
Interlude at Leeds
Interplay between research and fiction
A don on a sidetrack
The AB language: a unique discovery
Fantasy: for children and adults
The final years
Facts and fiction
On the truth of myth
The reception of The Lord of the Rings in the world
New media.
Language behind everything
Like lightning from a clear sky
Tolkien's double worlds
Middle-earth
From Bloemfontein to Birmingham
From Sarehole to Shire
An orphan drawn to reading
Student life in Oxford
Soldier at the front
Experience of war in Tolkien's fiction
Research as motor
Interlude at Leeds
Interplay between research and fiction
A don on a sidetrack
The AB language: a unique discovery
Fantasy: for children and adults
The final years
Facts and fiction
On the truth of myth
The reception of The Lord of the Rings in the world
New media.