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From Imagination to Faërie
Tolkien’s Thomist Fantasy
$35.00
£29.00
AU$51.00
ISBN: 9781666710458
Pub Date: June 2022
Format: Paperback
Imprint: Pickwick Publications
Tolkien is one of our most beloved fantasy writers. Such was the power of his imagination that much has been written on his invented world, languages, and myth. This book is an invitation to tread the...
The Impulse of Fantasy Literature
$22.00
£16.00
AU$32.00
ISBN: 9781532677168
Pub Date: June 2020
Format: Paperback
Imprint: Resource Publications
This book grew out of the author's wish to go beyond a formal definition of fantasy to discover a basic urge and interest common to the genre. He finds this urge to be the celebration of identity. Fantasy...
The Fantasy Literature of England
$26.00
£19.00
AU$41.00
ISBN: 9781532677557
Pub Date: May 2020
Format: Paperback
Imprint: Resource Publications
In this, the first book on English fantasy, Colin Manlove shows that for all its immense diversity, English fantasy can best be understood in terms of its strong national character, rather than as an...
The Drunken Silenus
On Gods, Goats, and the Cracks in Reality
AU$30.00
ISBN: 9781725254121
Pub Date: April 2020
Format: Paperback
Imprint: Slant
The Drunken Silenus is a book that is as hard to categorize as it is to put down--an enlightening and mesmerizing blend of philosophy, history, and art criticism. Morgan Meis begins simply enough, with...
Creation and Beauty in Tolkien’s Catholic Vision
A Study in the Influence of Neoplatonism in J. R. R. Tolkien’s Philosophy of Life as “Being and Gift”
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£26.00
AU$51.00
ISBN: 9781532641107
Pub Date: January 2020
Format: Paperback
Imprint: Pickwick Publications
This book invites readers into Tolkien's world through the lens of a variety of philosophers, all of whom owe a rich debt to the Neoplatonic philosophical tradition. It places Tolkien's mythology against...
Oral Poetry
Its Nature, Significance and Social Context
$36.00
£27.00
AU$53.00
ISBN: 9781532645044
Pub Date: May 2018
Format: Paperback
Imprint: Wipf and Stock
This classic study is an introduction to "oral poetry," a broad subject which Ruth Finnegan interprets as ranging from American folksongs, Eskimo lyrics, and modern popular songs to medieval oral literature,...
Beowulf in Parallel Texts
Translated with Textual and Explanatory Notes
$34.00
£25.00
AU$50.00
ISBN: 9781532610172
Pub Date: August 2017
Format: Paperback
Imprint: Cascade Books
This dual-language edition of Beowulf is for the general readers' enjoyment of the poem as well as a study guide for students of English language and literature. To meet this dual purpose, the book...
From Imagination to Faërie
Tolkien’s Thomist Fantasy
$35.00
£29.00
AU$51.00
ISBN: 9781666710458
Pub Date: June 2022
Format: Paperback
Imprint: Pickwick Publications
Tolkien is one of our most beloved fantasy writers. Such was the power of his imagination that much has been written on his invented world, languages, and myth. This book is an invitation to tread the...
The Impulse of Fantasy Literature
$22.00
£16.00
AU$32.00
ISBN: 9781532677168
Pub Date: June 2020
Format: Paperback
Imprint: Resource Publications
This book grew out of the author's wish to go beyond a formal definition of fantasy to discover a basic urge and interest common to the genre. He finds this urge to be the celebration of identity. Fantasy...
The Fantasy Literature of England
$26.00
£19.00
AU$41.00
ISBN: 9781532677557
Pub Date: May 2020
Format: Paperback
Imprint: Resource Publications
In this, the first book on English fantasy, Colin Manlove shows that for all its immense diversity, English fantasy can best be understood in terms of its strong national character, rather than as an...
The Drunken Silenus
On Gods, Goats, and the Cracks in Reality
AU$30.00
ISBN: 9781725254121
Pub Date: April 2020
Format: Paperback
Imprint: Slant
The Drunken Silenus is a book that is as hard to categorize as it is to put down--an enlightening and mesmerizing blend of philosophy, history, and art criticism. Morgan Meis begins simply enough, with...
Creation and Beauty in Tolkien’s Catholic Vision
A Study in the Influence of Neoplatonism in J. R. R. Tolkien’s Philosophy of Life as “Being and Gift”
$35.00
£26.00
AU$51.00
ISBN: 9781532641107
Pub Date: January 2020
Format: Paperback
Imprint: Pickwick Publications
This book invites readers into Tolkien's world through the lens of a variety of philosophers, all of whom owe a rich debt to the Neoplatonic philosophical tradition. It places Tolkien's mythology against...
Oral Poetry
Its Nature, Significance and Social Context
$36.00
£27.00
AU$53.00
ISBN: 9781532645044
Pub Date: May 2018
Format: Paperback
Imprint: Wipf and Stock
This classic study is an introduction to "oral poetry," a broad subject which Ruth Finnegan interprets as ranging from American folksongs, Eskimo lyrics, and modern popular songs to medieval oral literature,...
Beowulf in Parallel Texts
Translated with Textual and Explanatory Notes
$34.00
£25.00
AU$50.00
ISBN: 9781532610172
Pub Date: August 2017
Format: Paperback
Imprint: Cascade Books
This dual-language edition of Beowulf is for the general readers' enjoyment of the poem as well as a study guide for students of English language and literature. To meet this dual purpose, the book...