{"product_id":"tolkien-and-the-mystery-of-literary-creation-hardback-9781009479677","title":"Tolkien and the Mystery of Literary Creation (Hardback) 9781009479677","description":"\u003cfont face=\"Georgia\"\u003e\r\n\u003cp\u003e\u003cfont size=\"6\"\u003eTolkien and the Mystery of Literary Creation\u003c\/font\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\r\n\r\n\r\n\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003e\u003cem\u003eA comprehensive, scholarly, accessible guide into Tolkien's literary 'theory' and practice, gathering insights from across his vast output.\u003c\/em\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\r\n\r\n\r\n\u003cp\u003e\u003cfont size=\"4\"\u003eGiuseppe Pezzini (Author)\u003c\/font\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\r\n\r\n\u003cp\u003e\u003cfont size=\"3\"\u003e9781009479677, Cambridge University Press\u003c\/font\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\r\n\r\n\u003cp\u003e\u003cfont size=\"3\"\u003eHardback, published 8 May 2025\u003c\/font\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\r\n\r\n\u003cp\u003e\u003cfont size=\"3\"\u003e456 pages\u003cbr\u003e22.2 x 14.9 x 3.1 cm, 0.69 kg\u003c\/font\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\r\n\r\n\r\n\r\n\u003cp align=\"justify\"\u003e\u003cem\u003e\u003cfont size=\"3\"\u003e'This is an excellent book. So many times, in reading it, I found myself nodding in agreement with the author, or happy to find that we had the same opinion about particular passages in Tolkien's works. Pezzini has gathered and arranged threads that we all have noticed but never seen as a coherent pattern in just this way.' Verlyn Flieger, Professor Emerita in English at the University of Maryland\u003c\/font\u003e\u003c\/em\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\r\n\r\n\u003cp align=\"justify\"\u003e\u003cstrong\u003e\u003cfont size=\"3\"\u003eTaking his readers into the depths of a majestic and expansive literary world, one to which he brings fresh illumination as if to the darkness of Khazad-dûm, Giuseppe Pezzini combines rigorous scholarship with an engaging style to reveal the full scale of J. R. R. Tolkien's vision of the 'mystery of literary creation'. Through fragments garnered from across a scattered body of writing, and acute readings of primary texts (some well-known, others less familiar or recently published), the author divulges the unparalleled complexity of Tolkien's work while demonstrating its rich exploration of literature's very nature and purpose. Eschewing any overemphasis on context or comparisons, Pezzini offers rather a uniquely sustained, focused engagement with Tolkien and his 'theory' on their own terms. He helps us discover – or rediscover – a fascination for Tolkien's literary accomplishment while correcting long-standing biases against its nature and merits that have persisted fifty years after his death.\u003c\/font\u003e\u003c\/strong\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\r\n\r\n\u003cp\u003e\u003cfont size=\"3\"\u003e1. The cats of Queen Berúthiel: linguistic aesthetic and literature for its own sake\u003cbr\u003e 2. The authors of the red book: meta-textual frames and writing as discovery and translation\u003cbr\u003e 3. The Lords of the west: cloaking, freedom, and the hidden 'divine' narrative\u003cbr\u003e 4. Beren and Frodo: intra-textual parallels, internal figuration, and the universality of the particular\u003cbr\u003e 5. Gandalf's fall and return: sub-creative humility and the 'arising' of prophecy\u003cbr\u003e 6. The next stage: the death of the author and the effoliation of creation\u003cbr\u003e 7. Epilogue: a short introduction to the Ainulindalë.\u003c\/font\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\r\n\r\n\u003cp\u003e\u003cfont size=\"3\"\u003eSubject Areas: Literary studies: from c 1900 - [\u003ca title=\"See our other books on Literary studies: from c 1900 -\" href=\"https:\/\/freshlyprintedbooks.co.uk\/search?q=%22Literary%20studies:%20from%20c%201900%20-%20%5BDSBH%5D%22\"\u003eDSBH\u003c\/a\u003e]\u003c\/font\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\r\n\r\n\r\n\u003c\/font\u003e","brand":"Cambridge University Press","offers":[{"title":"Brand New","offer_id":52173713441048,"sku":"9781009479677","price":25.99,"currency_code":"GBP","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0730\/2037\/5320\/files\/9781009479677i.jpg?v=1781167812","url":"https:\/\/freshlyprintedbooks.co.uk\/products\/tolkien-and-the-mystery-of-literary-creation-hardback-9781009479677","provider":"Freshly Printed Books","version":"1.0","type":"link"}