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Interrupted Music: Tolkien and the Making of a Mythology by Verlyn Flieger (Paperback, 2005)
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The content of Tolkien's mythology, the Silmarillion, has been the subject of considerable exploration and analysis for many years, but the logistics of its development have been mostly igred and deserve closer investigation. Nineteenth- and twentieth-century scholars understood the term mythology as a gathering of song and story that derived from and described an identifiable world. Tolkien made a continuous effort over several years to construct a comprehensive mythology, to include t only the stories themselves but also the storytellers, scribes, and bards who were the offspring of his thought. In Interrupted Music Flieger attempts to illuminate the structure of Tolkien's work, allowing the reader to appreciate its broad, overarching design and its careful, painstaking construction. She endeavors to follow the music from its beginning as an idea in Tolkien's mind through to his final but never-implemented mechanism for realizing that idea, for bringing the voices of his story to the reading public. In addition, Flieger reviews attempts at mythmaking in the history of English literature by Spenser, Milton, and Blake as well as by Joyce and Yeats. She reflects on the important differences between Tolkien and his predecessors and even more between Tolkien and his contemporaries. This in-depth study will fascinate those interested in Tolkien and fantasy literature.Product Identifiers
PublisherKent State University Press
ISBN-100873388240
ISBN-139780873388245
eBay Product ID (ePID)96780332
Product Key Features
Book TitleInterrupted Music : the Making of Tolkien's Mythology
Number of Pages192 Pages
LanguageEnglish
Publication Year2005
GenreLiterary Criticism
AuthorVerlyn Flieger
FormatPaperback
Dimensions
Item Height0.7 in
Item Weight9.7 Oz
Item Length9 in
Item Width6 in
Height229mm
Width152mm
Weight299g
Additional Product Features
SubjectLiterary Criticism
Intended AudienceTrade
Date of Publication30/04/2005
Place of PublicationKent, Oh
Spine14mm
Country of PublicationUnited States
Author BiographyVerlyn Flieger is professor of English at the University of Maryland at College Park. She is the author of the expanded and updated edition of Splintered Light: Logos and Language in Tolkien's World (Kent State University Press, 2002), A Question of Time: J. R. R. Tolkien's Road to Faerie (Kent State University Press, 1997), and coeditor of Tolkien's Legendarium: Essays on the History of Middle-earth.
ImprintKent State University Press
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