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Il Signore degli Anelli e la tradizione narrativa occiden...

Simonson, Martin / Costabile, Giovanni Carmine
Il Signore degli Anelli e la tradizione narrativa occidentale
Quando Il Signore degli Anelli fu pubblicato negli anni '50, non si collocava comodamente tra le nozioni preconcette di genere letterario. Le risposte critiche riflettevano la confusione: per alcuni si trattava di una sgradita ricomparsa di standard narrativi che il modernismo avrebbe dovuto eliminare, o semplicemente di un brutto romanzo. Altri lo consideravano un'opera rinfrescante nelle tradizioni epiche e romantiche.Ironicamente, gran part...

CHF 33.90

From East to West

Simonson, Martin / Alkorta Martiartu, Jon
From East to West
The portrayal of nature in the genre of fantasy fiction, from the Middle Ages to more modern times, has been conditioned by the diverging social, political and historical contexts. This book seeks to disclose how the natural world has been depicted within this genre during different periods, drawing a comparison between the British tradition of fantasy literature and Ursula K. Le Guin's Earthsea cycle. Le Guin adheres to the general traits of ...

CHF 69.00

El Oeste recuperado

Simonson, Martin
El Oeste recuperado
Tolkien no habría estado de acuerdo con el empleo del término "Occidente" para hablar del espacio legendario y cultural que tenía en mente cuando reconstruyó y re-mitificó el pasado literario en su obra cumbre. El término proviene de la Antigüedad Clásica y no abarca en su origen los territorios del vasto Norte, cuyas tradiciones literarias Tolkien también incorporó en su visión mitificada del Oeste. El Oeste de Tolkien sintetiza leyendas y ex...

CHF 106.00

Representations of Nature in Middle-earth

Simonson, Martin
Representations of Nature in Middle-earth
Tolkien's portrayal of nature in Middle-earth has been interpreted in a variety of ways, often depending on the context of the reading. Some have seen Middle-earth and its potential destroyer, the Ring, as an allegory of the European continent under the threat of the atomic bomb, while others have embraced it as an artistic expression of the Green movement's agenda in the face of industrial abuse. Some have read nature in Tolkien's work in ter...

CHF 41.50

The Lord of the Rings and the Western Narrative Tradition

Simonson, Martin
The Lord of the Rings and the Western Narrative Tradition
When The Lord of the Rings was published in the 1950's it did not sit comfortably among any preconceived notions of literary genre. The critical responses reflected the confusion: for some, it was an unwelcome reappearance of narrative standards that modernism was supposed to have done away with, or just a bad novel. Others considered it a refreshing work in the epic and romance traditions. Ironically, much of the critical prejudice regarding...

CHF 41.50