Volume 2, No. 1 - Spring 2004

Articles for Spring 2004

The Forgotten Chapters of The Lord of the Rings: Tolkien's Challenge to the Conventional Quest

By Thomas Bowler

 

Dante's Love: Earthly or Extraordinary?

By David Brensinger

 

Snapshots From the Ether: E-mail Narratives in Contemporary Literature

By Jeremy Cooke

 

Food as a Marker of Cultural Duality in Jhumpa Lahiri's Interpreter of Maladies

By Elizabeth Jin

 

Dealing With A S-T-A-U-N-C-H Character: Locating Edie Beale's Cultural Significance

By Christina Jordan

 

"Otherness" in Charlotte Mew's Poetry

By Natalie Kressen

 

Constructed Love: Mis-fulfilled Expectations in Troilus and Criseyde

By Michael Opest

 

"There are More Things in Heaven and Earth": Magic, Nature, and Art in the Short Stories of Mary Butts

By Michael Ritchey

 

Saving Privatization: Speilberg and the Neoliberal War Film

By Josh Smicker

The Forgotten Chapters of The Lord of the Rings: Tolkien's Challenge to the Conventional Quest

By Thomas Bowler

[ Contents | Abstract | I | II | III | IV | V | Notes | Works Cited ]

Notes

1. T.A. Shippey, J.R.R. Tolkien: Author of the Century (Boston: Houghton Mifflin Company, 2001) xxv.

2. Randel Helms, Tolkien and the Silmarils (Boston: Houghton Mifflin Company, 1981).

3. Marjorie Burns, "Gandalf and Odin," Tolkien's Legendarium: Essays on The History of Middle Earth, ed. Verlyn Flieger and Carl F. Hostetter (London, Greenwood Press, 2000) 219-231.

4. Lord Raglan, The Hero: A Study in Tradition, Myth, and Drama (London: Watts & Co., 1949).

5. Humphrey Carpenter, J.R.R. Tolkien: A Biography (London: George Allen & Unwin (Publishers) Ltd., 1977).

6. J.R.R. Tolkien, Letters of J.R.R. Tolkien, ed. Humphrey Carpenter (London: George Allen & Unwin (Publishers) Ltd., 1981).

7. Verlyn Flieger, A Question of Time: J.R.R. Tolkien's Road to Faerie (Kent: The Kent State University Press, 1997) 218-219.

8. J.R.R. Tolkien, Sauron Defeated, ed. Christopher Tolkien (London: HarperCollinsPublishers, 1992).

9. T.A. Shippey, "Creation from Philology in The Lord of the Rings," J.R.R. Tolkien, Scholar and Storyteller: Essays in Memoriam, ed. Mary Salu and Robert T. Farrell (Ithaca: Cornell University Press, 1979) 286-316.

 

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