A Question of Time: J.R.R. Tolkien's Toad to Faerie by Flieger, Verlyn
A Question of Time: J.R.R. Tolkien's Toad to Faerie by Flieger, Verlyn

A Question of Time: J.R.R. Tolkien's Toad to Faerie

J.R.R. Tolkien's The Hobbit, The Lord of the Rings, and Silmarillion have long been recognized as among...
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A Question of Time: J.R.R. Tolkien's Toad to Faerie by Flieger, Verlyn

A Question of Time: J.R.R. Tolkien's Toad to Faerie

CHF 79.55
A Question of Time: J.R.R. Tolkien's Toad to Faerie by Flieger, Verlyn

A Question of Time: J.R.R. Tolkien's Toad to Faerie

CHF 79.55
Author: Verlyn Flieger
Format: Paperback
Language: English
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J.R.R. Tolkien's The Hobbit, The Lord of the Rings, and Silmarillion have long been recognized as among the most popular fiction of the twentieth century, and most critical analysis of Tolkien has centered on these novels. Granted access by the Tolkien estate and the Bodleian Library in Oxford to Tolkien's unpublished writings, Verlyn Flieger uses them here to shed new light on his better known works, revealing a new dimension of his fictive vision and giving added depth of meaning to his writing.

Tolkien's concern with time--past and present, real and "faerie"--captures the wonder and peril of travel into other worlds, other times, other modes of consciousness. Reading his work, we "fall wide asleep" into a dream more real than ordinary waking experience, and emerge with a new perception of the waking world. Flieger explores Tolkien's use of dream as time-travel in his unfinished stories The Lost Road and The Notion Club Papers as well as in The Lord of the Rings and his shorter fiction and poetry.

Analyzing Tolkien's treatment of time and time-travel, Flieger shows that he was not just a mythmaker and writer of escapist fantasy but a man whose relationship to his own century was troubled and critical. He achieved in his fiction a double perspective of time that enabled him to see in the mirror of the past the clouded reflection of the present.



Author: Verlyn Flieger
Publisher: Kent State University Press
Published: 03/30/2011
Pages: 286
Binding Type: Paperback
Weight: 0.89lbs
Size: 9.02h x 5.94w x 0.79d
ISBN: 9780873386999

About the Author
Verlyn Flieger is professor emerita of English at the University of Maryland where she teaches courses on Tolkien, medieval and modern literature, and comparative mythology. She has written three books on Tolkien: Splintered Light, A Question of Time, and Interrupted Music (all published by The Kent State University Press). She has also edited a critical edition of Tolkien's novella Smith of Wootton Major, and an expanded edition with notes and commentary of Tolkien's most influential theoretical essay, "On Fairy-Stories."
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