Beowulf and the Critics

Beowulf and the Critics PDF

Author: John Ronald Reuel Tolkien

Publisher: Arizona Center for Medieval and Renaissance Studies (ACMRS)

Published: 2002

Total Pages: 496

ISBN-13:

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The most important essay in the history of Beowulf scholarship, J.R.R. Tolkien's "Beowulf: the monsters and the critics" has been much studied and discussed. But scholars of both Beowulf and Tolkien have to this point been unaware that Tolkien's essay was a redaction of a much longer and more substantial work, Beowulf and the critics, which Tolkien wrote in the 1930s and probably delivered as a series of Oxford lectures. This critical edition of Beowulf and the critics presents both unpublished versions of Tolkien's lecture, each substantially different from the other and from the final, published essay. The edition included a description of the manuscript, complete textual and explanatory notes, and a detailed critical introduction that explains the place of Tolkien's Anglo-Saxon scholarship both in the history of Beowulf scholarship and in literary history.

Critics, Monsters, Fanatics, & Other Literary Essays

Critics, Monsters, Fanatics, & Other Literary Essays PDF

Author: Cynthia Ozick

Publisher: HarperCollins

Published: 2016-07-05

Total Pages: 229

ISBN-13: 0544703693

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In a collection that includes new essays written explicitly for this volume, one of our sharpest and most influential critics confronts the past, present, and future of literary culture. If every outlet for book criticism suddenly disappeared — if all we had were reviews that treated books like any other commodity — could the novel survive? In a gauntlet-throwing essay at the start of this brilliant assemblage, Cynthia Ozick stakes the claim that, just as surely as critics require a steady supply of new fiction, novelists need great critics to build a vibrant community on the foundation of literary history. For decades, Ozick herself has been one of our great critics, as these essays so clearly display. She offers models of critical analysis of writers from the mid-twentieth century to today, from Saul Bellow, Bernard Malamud, and Kafka, to William Gass and Martin Amis, all assembled in provocatively named groups: Fanatics, Monsters, Figures, and others. Uncompromising and brimming with insight, these essays are essential reading for anyone facing the future of literature in the digital age.

Beowulf

Beowulf PDF

Author: John Ronald Reuel Tolkien

Publisher: Houghton Mifflin Harcourt

Published: 2014

Total Pages: 445

ISBN-13: 0544442784

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Presents the prose translation of the Old English epic that Tolkien created as a young man, along with selections from lectures on the poem he gave later in life and a story and poetry he wrote in the style of folklore on the poem's themes.

The Monsters and the Critics

The Monsters and the Critics PDF

Author: John Ronald Reuel Tolkien

Publisher: HarperCollins UK

Published: 1997

Total Pages: 258

ISBN-13: 026110263X

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A collection of seven essays by J.R.R. Tolkien arising out of Tolkien's work in medieval literature

Tales from the Perilous Realm

Tales from the Perilous Realm PDF

Author: John Ronald Reuel Tolkien

Publisher: Houghton Mifflin Harcourt

Published: 2008

Total Pages: 444

ISBN-13: 9780547154114

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Never before published in a single volume, Tolkien's four novellas ("Farmer Giles of Ham, Leaf by Niggle, Smith of Wootton Major," and "Roverandom") and one book of poems ("The Adventures of Tom Bombadil") are gathered together in a fully illustrated set.

A Secret Vice: Tolkien on Invented Languages

A Secret Vice: Tolkien on Invented Languages PDF

Author: J. R. R. Tolkien

Publisher: HarperCollins

Published: 2016-04-07

Total Pages: 224

ISBN-13: 0008131406

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First ever critical study of Tolkien’s little-known essay, which reveals how language invention shaped the creation of Middle-earth and beyond, to George R R Martin’s Game of Thrones.

Finn and Hengest

Finn and Hengest PDF

Author: J. R. R. Tolkien

Publisher: HarperCollins UK

Published: 2023-04-20

Total Pages: 249

ISBN-13: 000861637X

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Tolkien’s famous translations and lectures on the story of two fifth-century heroes in northern Europe.

The Monsters and the Critics

The Monsters and the Critics PDF

Author: J. R. R. Tolkien

Publisher: HarperCollins UK

Published: 2013-05-23

Total Pages: 0

ISBN-13: 0007375905

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The complete collection of Tolkien’s essays, including two on Beowulf, which span three decades beginning six years before The Hobbit to five years after The Lord of the Rings.