Dirk Siepmann: Tolkien as a Literary Artist

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Beschreibung

This book takes a fresh look at Tolkien¿s literary artistry from the points of view of both linguistics and literary history, with the aim of shedding light on the literary techniques used in The Lord of the Rings. The authors study Tolkien¿s use of words, style, narrative techniques, rhetoric and symbolism to highlight his status as literary artist. Dirk Siepmann uses a corpus stylistic approach to analyse Tolkien¿s vocabulary and syntax, while Thomas Kullmann uses discourse theory, literary history and concepts of intertextuality to explore Tolkien¿s literary techniques, relating them to the history of English fiction and poetry. Issues discussed include point of view, speeches, story-telling, landscape descriptions, the poems inserted into the body of the narrative, and the role of language in the characterization of the novel¿s protagonists. This book will be of particular interest to students and scholars of literature, corpus linguistics and stylistics, as well as Tolkien fans and specialists.

Über den Autor

Thomas Kullmann is Professor of English Literature at the University of Osnabrück, Germany. He has published widely on Shakespeare and the English Renaissance, English children's literature and the nineteenth- and twentieth-century novel.

Dirk Siepmann is Professor of English as a Second Language at the University of Osnabrück, Germany. He has 25 years of experience in applied linguistics, with an extensive background in corpus linguistics and language teaching. He has authored 12 books, including two major monographs on translation studies and one on contrastive linguistics, and has co-authored or edited a further 14 volumes.

Zusammenfassung

Combines corpus linguistic approaches with elements of literary theory to situate Tolkien within the history of English prose fiction

Challenges the view that novels in the fantasy sub-genre are necessarily less well-crafted from a stylistic point of view

Examines Tolkien's use of words, narrative techniques, style, rhetoric and symbolism within the context of mainstream twentieth-century literature

Inhaltsverzeichnis

Chapter 1: Introduction.- Chapter 2: Tolkien as a Stylist: Key Words and Key Collocations.- Chapter 3: The Narrative Syntax of The Lord of the Rings.- Chapter 4: Points of View.- Chapter 5: Landscape Descriptions.- Chapter 6: Speeches and Declarations.- Chapter 7: Storytelling.- Chapter 8: Poems and Songs.- Chapter 9: Language and Character.- Chapter 10: Tolkien's Position in Literary History.

Details

Erscheinungsjahr:	2022
Genre:	Allg. & vergl. Sprachwissenschaft
Rubrik:	Sprachwissenschaft
Medium:	Taschenbuch
Inhalt:	xiii 319 S. 1 s/w Illustr. 1 farbige Illustr. 319 p. 2 illus. 1 illus. in color.
ISBN-13:	9783030693015
ISBN-10:	3030693015
Sprache:	Englisch
Ausstattung / Beilage:	Paperback
Einband:	Kartoniert / Broschiert
Autor:	Siepmann, Dirk Kullmann, Thomas
Auflage:	1st ed. 2021
Hersteller:	Springer International Publishing Springer International Publishing AG
Maße:	210 x 148 x 19 mm
Von/Mit:	Dirk Siepmann (u. a.)
Erscheinungsdatum:	07.05.2022
Gewicht:	0,436 kg

Artikel-ID: 121427579