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Tolkien

A Cultural Phenomenon

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  • © 2003

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Authors:
  1. Brian Rosebury

    1. Department of Humanities, University of Central Lancashire, UK

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Table of contents (7 chapters)

  1. Front Matter

    Pages i-ix
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  2. Introduction

    • Brian Rosebury
    Pages 1-9

  3. The Lord of the Rings: Imagining Middle-earth

    • Brian Rosebury
    Pages 11-59

  4. The Lord of the Rings: Achieving the Narrative

    • Brian Rosebury
    Pages 60-88

  5. Fiction and Poetry, 1914–73

    • Brian Rosebury
    Pages 89-133

  6. Tolkien and the Twentieth Century

    • Brian Rosebury
    Pages 134-157

  7. Tolkien in the History of Ideas

    • Brian Rosebury
    Pages 158-192

  8. The Cultural Phenomenon

    • Brian Rosebury
    Pages 193-220

  9. Back Matter

    Pages 221-246
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This comprehensive and discriminating account of Tolkien's work has been revised and expanded, to take account both of recent developments in scholarship, and of the recent films directed by Peter Jackson. Tracing the development of Tolkien's creative technique over several decades, it explores the bewildering profusion of shorter works, as well as devoting an extended analysis to The Lord of the Rings . Chapters consider Tolkien's contribution to the history of ideas, and review the reception of the Lord of the Rings film adaptations and other popular adaptations of his work.

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'Brian Rosebury's book offers a compelling analysis of Tolkien as a thinker. Especially convincing are his accounts of Tolkien's views on free will, moral choice, and creativity, as these are woven into The Lord of the Rings and The Silmarillion. Rosebury also deftly exposes Tolkien's often disregarded skills in narrative and description, and he does it, like Tolkien, in plain English. The chapter on Tolkien's reception and transformation into the movies is the best available.' - Dr Tom Shippey, Walter J. Ong, S.J., Chair, Saint Louis University

'In this revised version of a book first published over a decade ago, Brian Rosebury sets out to reclaim Tolkien from the bestseller lists and reposition him as a serious literary figure. It is an attempt both largely convincing and long overdue...The book offers a necessary corrective to decades of misplaced snobbery and belittlement.' - Jon Barnes, Times Literary Supplement

Authors and Affiliations

  • Department of Humanities, University of Central Lancashire, UK

    Brian Rosebury

About the author

BRIAN ROSEBURY is the author of Art and Desire: A Study in the Aesthetics of Fiction (Palgrave/Macmillan, 1988), and of articles in Victorian Poetry, Philosophical Review, Political Quarterly and the British Journal of Aesthetics. He is Principal Lecturer in the Department of Humanities, University of Central Lancashire.

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