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Fantasies of time and death : Dunsany, Eddison, Tolkien
- Title
- Fantasies of time and death : Dunsany, Eddison, Tolkien / Anna Vaninskaya.
- Author
- Vaninskaya, Anna, 1980-
- Publication
- London : Palgrave Macmillan, [2020]
- ©2020
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Details
- Description
- viii, 262 pages; 22 cm
- Summary
- "This book reveals the unique contribution made by the three founding fathers of British fantasy--Lord Dunsany, E. R. Eddison and J. R. R. Tolkien--to our culture's perennial reassessment of the meanings of time, death and eternity. It traces the poetic, philosophical and theological roots of the striking preoccupation with mortality and temporality that defines the imagined worlds of early fantasy fiction, and gives both the form of such fiction and its ideas the attention they deserve. Dunsany, Eddison and Tolkien raise some of the oldest questions in existence: about the limits of nature, human and divine; cosmic creation and destruction; the immortality conferred by art and memory; and the paradoxes and uncertainties generated by the universal experience of transience, the fear of annihilation and the desire for transcendence. But they respond to those questions by means of thought experiments that have no precedent in modern literary history" --
- Subject
- Dunsany, Lord, 1878-1957 > Criticism and interpretation
- Eddison, Eric Rücker, 1882-1945 > Criticism and interpretation
- Tolkien, J. R. R. 1892-1973 > Criticism and interpretation
- Dunsany, Lord, 1878-1957
- Eddison, Eric Rücker, 1882-1945
- Tolkien, J. R. R. 1892-1973
- 1900-1999
- Fantasy fiction, English > 20th century > History and criticism
- Time in literature
- Death in literature
- Eternity in literature
- Fantasy fiction, English
- Genre/Form
- Criticism, interpretation, etc.
- Literary criticism.
- Bibliography (note)
- Includes bibliographical references (pages 233-243) and index.
- Contents
- Introduction : the game of life and death -- Lord Dunsany : the conquering hours -- E. R. Eddison : bearing witness to the eternal -- J.R.R. Tolkien : more than memory.
- Call Number
- JFD 20-3612
- ISBN
- 1137518375
- 9781137518378
- OCLC
- 1128888911
- Author
- Vaninskaya, Anna, 1980- author.
- Title
- Fantasies of time and death : Dunsany, Eddison, Tolkien / Anna Vaninskaya.
- Publisher
- London : Palgrave Macmillan, [2020]
- Copyright Date
- ©2020
- Type of Content
- text
- Type of Medium
- unmediated
- Type of Carrier
- volume
- Bibliography
- Includes bibliographical references (pages 233-243) and index.
- Chronological Term
- 1900-1999
- Research Call Number
- JFD 20-3612