Anna Vaninskaya: Fantasies of Time and Death

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Cover: 9781137518378 | Fantasies of Time and Death | Dunsany, Eddison, Tolkien | Vaninskaya

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Beschreibung

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.

This book has won the '2021 Mythopoeic Scholarship Award' for Myth and Fantasy Studies.

Über den Autor

Anna Vaninskaya is Senior Lecturer in English Literature at the University of Edinburgh, UK. She is the author of William Morris and the Idea of Community (Edinburgh University Press, 2010) and over forty articles and book chapters on nineteenth and twentieth-century literature, politics and history.

Zusammenfassung

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

Traces the poetic, philosophical and theological roots of their striking preoccupation with mortality and temporality

Winner of the 2021 Mythopoeic Scholarship Award for Myth and Fantasy Studies

Inhaltsverzeichnis

1. Introduction.- 2. Lord Dunsany: The Conquering Hours.- 3. E. R. Eddison: Bearing Witness to the Eternal.- 4. J. R. R. Tolkien: More than Memory.

Details

Erscheinungsjahr:	2020
Genre:	Romane & Erzählungen
Rubrik:	Belletristik
Medium:	Buch
Seiten:	272
Inhalt:	viii 262 S. 1 s/w Illustr. 262 p. 1 illus.
ISBN-13:	9781137518378
ISBN-10:	1137518375
Sprache:	Englisch
Ausstattung / Beilage:	HC runder Rücken kaschiert
Einband:	Gebunden
Autor:	Vaninskaya, Anna
Auflage:	1st ed. 2020
Hersteller:	Palgrave Macmillan Palgrave Macmillan UK
Maße:	216 x 153 x 20 mm
Von/Mit:	Anna Vaninskaya
Erscheinungsdatum:	28.01.2020
Gewicht:	0,468 kg

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