Tolkien - Author of the Century

Informationen zum Autor Professor Tom Shippey taught at Oxford, overlapping chronologically with Professor Tolkien and teaching the same syllabus, giving him an intimate familiarity with the poems and the languages which formed the main stimulus to Tolkien’s imagination. He subsequently held the same Chair of English Language and Medieval Literature at Leeds University which Tolkien held early in his career, and currently holds the Walter J. Ong Chair of Humanities at Saint Louis University, USA. Zusammenfassung The definitive critical study of Tolkien’s greatest works by the respected and world renowned Tolkien scholar Professor T.A. Shippey.

Product details

• Authors: Tom Shippey, Tom A. Shippey, Shippey Tom
• Publisher: Harper Collins Uk
• Languages: English
• Product format: Paperback / Softback
• Released: 20.08.2001
• EAN: 9780261104013
• ISBN: 978-0-261-10401-3
• No. of pages: 346
• Dimensions: 128 mm x 197 mm x 25 mm
• Series: Harper Collins Paperbacks; Tolkien; Tolkien
• Subjects: Fiction > Science fiction, fantasy; Humanities, art, music > Linguistics and literary studies > English linguistics / literary studies; Biography: general, BIOGRAPHY & AUTOBIOGRAPHY / General, English, LITERARY CRITICISM / Modern / 20th Century, Literary studies: from c 1900 -, Literary studies: fiction, novelists & prose writers, Literary studies: fiction, novelists and prose writers, Literary studies: c 1900 to c 2000, LITERARY CRITICISM / Novel as Form