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050 4 _aPR6039.O32 .F554 2017
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100 1 _aFlieger, Verlyn.
245 1 0 _aThere Would Always Be a Fairy Tale :
_bMore Essays on Tolkien.
250 _a1st ed.
264 1 _aAshland :
_bThe Kent State University Press,
_c2017.
264 4 _c©2017.
300 _a1 online resource (278 pages)
336 _atext
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337 _acomputer
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338 _aonline resource
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505 0 _aCover -- Copyright -- Dedication -- Contents -- Acknowledgments -- Introduction -- Style, Usage, and Abbreviations -- Note to the Reader -- Part One: "A Perilous Land": Defining Faërie -- "There Would Always Be a 'Fairy-tale'": J. R. R. Tolkien and the Folklore Controversy -- But What Did He Really Mean? -- Re-creating Reality -- War, Death, and Fairy Stories in the Work of J. R. R. Tolkien -- Eucatastrophe and the Dark -- Part Two: "Faërie Begins": The Nuts and Bolts of Sub-creation -- Words and World-making: The Particle Physics of Middle-earth -- Myth, History, and Time-travel: The Lost Road and The Notion Club Papers -- Politically Incorrect Tolkien -- The Jewels, the Stone, the Ring, and the Making of Meaning -- Making Choices: Moral Ambiguity in Tolkien's Major Fiction -- Part Three: "Arresting Strangeness": Making It Different -- The Forests and the Trees: Sal and Ian in Faërie -- How Trees Behave-Or Do They? -- Myth and Truth in Tolkien's Legendarium -- Fays, Corrigans, Elves, and More: Tolkien's Dark Ladies -- Part Four: Boiling Bones -- Serving Soup -- Tolkien, Kalevala, and Middle-earth -- Tolkien's Celtic Connection -- Tolkien's French Connection -- Drowned Lands -- Voyaging About: Tolkien and Celtic Navigatio -- Permissions and Acknowledgments -- Notes -- Works Cited -- Index.
588 _aDescription based on publisher supplied metadata and other sources.
590 _aElectronic reproduction. Ann Arbor, Michigan : ProQuest Ebook Central, 2024. Available via World Wide Web. Access may be limited to ProQuest Ebook Central affiliated libraries.
650 0 _aTolkien, J. R. R.-(John Ronald Reuel),-1892-1973-Criticism and interpretation.
650 0 _aFantasy fiction, English-History and criticism.
650 0 _aFairy tales-History and criticism.
655 4 _aElectronic books.
776 0 8 _iPrint version:
_aFlieger, Verlyn
_tThere Would Always Be a Fairy Tale
_dAshland : The Kent State University Press,c2017
_z9781606353080
797 2 _aProQuest (Firm)
856 4 0 _uhttps://ebookcentral.proquest.com/lib/orpp/detail.action?docID=5188265
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