Sub-creating Middle-earth

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Sub-creating Middle-earth: Constructions of Authorship and the Works of J.R.R. Tolkien
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EditorJudith Klinger
IllustratorAnke Eissmann
PublisherWalking Tree Publishers
Released20 November 2012
FormatPaperback
Pages209
ISBN978-3-905703-27-6
SeriesCormarë Series
Preceded byThe Broken Scythe
Followed byTolkien's Poetry

Sub-creating Middle-earth: Constructions of Authorship and the Works of J.R.R. Tolkien is a collection of six essays examining J.R.R. Tolkien as an author. It was published as No. 27 in the Cormarë Series.

From the publisher

Authorship in the works of J.R.R. Tolkien is a subject of many facets. Within the mythology and history of Middle-earth, many story-tellers, bards, annalists and poets contribute to the weaving of an enormous tapestry of tales. Sub-creation, as Tolkien practiced it, involves an abundance of traditions, including different modes of authorship and literary creation – and some depart strikingly from the common modern notions. Instead of proposing a unified perception, the six articles in this collection therefore examine the web of authorial presence and authorship concepts in Tolkien's works from diverse angles, to trace a polyphonous dialogue between the writer of the texts and the many voices within that shape Middle-earth in concert.

Contents

  • Introduction
    • By: Judith Klinger
  • The One or the Many? Authorship, Voice and Corpus
    • By: Dirk Vanderbeke & Allan Turner
  • Tolkien's Triple Balance: A Redemptive Model of Heroism for the Twentieth Century
    • By: Martin Simonson
  • Tolkien's 'Strange Powers of the Mind': Dreams, Visionary History and Authorship
    • By: Judith Klinger
  • (Re)Authoring History: Tolkien and Postcolonialism
    • By: Margaret Hiley
  • One Author to Rule Them All
    • By: Patrick A. Brückner
  • The Chronicle Without an Author: History, Myth and Narration in Tolkien's Legendarium
    • By: Cécile Cristofari

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