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- catalog abstract "J.R.R. Tolkien's The Hobbitt, 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 Granted access by the Tolkien estate and the Bodleian Library in Oxford to Tolkien's unpublished writings, Verlyn Flieger uses them here to shed new light on his better known works, revealing a new dimension of his fictive vision and giving added depth of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.".
- catalog contributor b10436695.
- catalog coverage "England Intellectual life 20th century.".
- catalog created "c1997.".
- catalog date "1997".
- catalog date "c1997.".
- catalog dateCopyrighted "c1997.".
- catalog description "Between worlds and times -- Remembrance that never dies -- Strange powers of the mind -- Over a bridge of time -- Where the dream-fish go -- Travelers between the worlds -- Further off than Sussex -- Frodo's dreams -- Falling asleep again -- A dream of light and dark -- Pitfalls in Faerie -- Epilogue : his gift of glee.".
- catalog description "Includes bibliographical references (p. 265-268) and index.".
- catalog description "J.R.R. Tolkien's The Hobbitt, 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 Granted access by the Tolkien estate and the Bodleian Library in Oxford to Tolkien's unpublished writings, Verlyn Flieger uses them here to shed new light on his better known works, revealing a new dimension of his fictive vision and giving added depth of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.".
- catalog extent "x, 276 p. :".
- catalog identifier "0873385748 (alk. paper)".
- catalog issued "1997".
- catalog issued "c1997.".
- catalog language "eng".
- catalog publisher "Kent, Ohio : Kent State University Press,".
- catalog spatial "England Intellectual life 20th century.".
- catalog spatial "England".
- catalog subject "828/.91209 21".
- catalog subject "Dreams in literature.".
- catalog subject "Fantasy literature, English History and criticism.".
- catalog subject "Literature Psychology.".
- catalog subject "Literature and history England History 20th century.".
- catalog subject "Medievalism England History 20th century.".
- catalog subject "Middle Ages in literature.".
- catalog subject "Middle Earth (Imaginary place)".
- catalog subject "PR6039.O32 Z646 1997".
- catalog subject "Time in literature.".
- catalog subject "Time travel in literature.".
- catalog subject "Tolkien, J. R. R. (John Ronald Reuel), 1892-1973 Criticism and interpretation.".
- catalog tableOfContents "Between worlds and times -- Remembrance that never dies -- Strange powers of the mind -- Over a bridge of time -- Where the dream-fish go -- Travelers between the worlds -- Further off than Sussex -- Frodo's dreams -- Falling asleep again -- A dream of light and dark -- Pitfalls in Faerie -- Epilogue : his gift of glee.".
- catalog title "A question of time : J.R.R. Tolkien's road to Faërie / Verlyn Flieger.".
- catalog type "Criticism, interpretation, etc. fast".
- catalog type "History. fast".
- catalog type "text".