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Title:

J.R.R. Tolkien, scholar and storyteller : essays in memoriam / edited by Mary Salu and Robert T. Farrell.

Edition:

First Cornell paperback edition.

Publisher:

Cornell University Press,

Copyright Date:

2013

Description:

325 pages : illustration; portrait ; 24 cm

Other Authors:

Tolkien, J. R. R. (John Ronald Reuel), 1892-1973.
Salu, Mary, editor.
Farrell, Robert T., editor.

Notes:

Includes bibliographical references (pages 317-322) and index.

Contents:

Part three -- Handlist of the published writings of J.R.R. Tolkien / Humphrey Carpenter. Valedictory address to the University of Oxford / J.R.R. Tolkien -- The man and the scholar / S.T.R.O. d'Ardenne -- Part two -- Beowulf lines 3074- 3075 / A.J. Bliss -- Lazamon's English sources / P.J. Frankis -- God, death, and loyalty in The Battle of Maldon / Fred C. Robinson -- Geoweorpa: "Once held in high esteem" / E.G. Stanley -- Narrative insight in Laxdaela Saga / Ursula Dronke -- Nosce te ipsum: some medieval interpretations / J.A.W. Bennett -- Chaucer's man of law and his tale: the eccentric design / Robert T. Farrell -- Chaucer and "Pite" / Douglas Gray -- Make believe: Chaucer's rationale of storytelling in The House of Fame / Geoffrey T. Shepherd -- Moral Chaucer and kindly Gower / Rosemary Woolf -- Part three -- The Lord of the Rings as romance / Derek S. Brewer -- The gospel of Middle Earth according to J.R.R. Tolkien / William Dowie -- Creation from philology in The Lord of the Rings / T.A. Shippey -- Handlist of the published writings of J.R.R. Tolkien / Humphrey Carpenter.

ISBN:

9780801478871
0801478871

OCLC:

(OCoLC)842892200

Locations:

UXAX826 -- St. Ambrose University Library (Davenport)