Tolkien and the Mystery of Literary Creation

Auteur

Giuseppe Pezzini is a Fellow and Tutor at Corpus Christi College, Oxford, and an Associate Professor of Classics at Oxford University. A classicist by training, he has published extensively on Latin language and literature, Roman comedy, ancient philosophy of language, and fiction theory. With additional interests in textual criticism and the digital humanities, he is also a prominent Tolkien specialist, was the recipient of a 2021 Philip Leverhulme Prize, and currently serves as Tolkien Editor for the Journal of Inklings Studies.

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"Guiding readers into the depths of Tolkien's world, Giuseppe Pezzini combines scholarly rigour with accessible language to reveal the majestic mosaic of Tolkien's vision of the 'mystery of literary creation', showing the unparalleled depth and complexity of his work and engaging with Tolkien and his 'theory' on their own terms"--

Contenu

1. The cats of Queen Berúthiel: linguistic aesthetic and literature for its own sake; 2. The authors of the red book: meta-textual frames and writing as discovery and translation; 3. The Lords of the west: cloaking, freedom, and the hidden 'divine' narrative; 4. Beren and Frodo: intra-textual parallels, internal figuration, and the universality of the particular; 5. Gandalf's fall and return: sub-creative humility and the 'arising' of prophecy; 6. The next stage: the death of the author and the effoliation of creation; 7. Epilogue: a short introduction to the Ainulindalë.