Interrupted Music: The Making of Tolkien's Mythology

Interrupted Music: The Making of Tolkien's Mythology

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 ignored 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 not 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. predecessors and even more between Tolkien and his contemporaries. This in-depth study will fascinate those interested in Tolkien and fantasy literature.
Country USA
Brand Kent State University Press
Manufacturer The Kent State University Press
Binding Paperback
UnitCount 1
EANs 9780873388245
ReleaseDate 0000-00-00

Country	USA
Brand	Kent State University Press
Manufacturer	The Kent State University Press
Binding	Paperback
UnitCount	1
EANs	9780873388245
ReleaseDate	0000-00-00

Interrupted Music: The Making of Tolkien's Mythology

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