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9780873388245

Interrupted Music

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  • ISBN13:

    9780873388245

  • ISBN10:

    0873388240

  • Format: Paperback
  • Copyright: 2005-04-30
  • Publisher: Kent State Univ Pr
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Author Biography

Verlyn Flieger is professor of English at the University of Maryland at College Park.

Table of Contents

Preface and Acknowledgments ix
Notes on Usage xi
Introduction xiii
Part 1: ``to England''
The Motives
3(24)
``England still waits''
3(3)
``a great instrument in God's hands''
6(6)
``something that belongs to the English''
12(3)
``quickened to full life by war''
15(8)
``the origin of language and of the mind''
23(4)
The Models
27(18)
The Personal Model: Tolkien and Lonnrot
27(5)
The Literary Model: Tolkien and Arthur
32(5)
``'But,' said Sam''
37(8)
Points of View: Whose Myth Is It?
45(10)
The Tradition
55(32)
Adventures of a Text
55(6)
Oral Tradition in Middle-earth
61(6)
``a great big book with red and black letters''
67(7)
``the remains of a book''
74(3)
``One must stop somewhere''
77(6)
So What?
83(4)
Part 2: The Artificer and the Foreconceit
The Artifice
87(34)
Eriol the Mariner
87(4)
``I should try `time-travel'''
91(7)
The Atlantis Story and the Eriol-Saga
98(5)
``where it lieth still to read for such as may''
103(8)
``Ælfwine has one''
111(10)
Part 3: The Beauty Some Call Celtic
The Otherworld
121(16)
The Celtic Connection
121(4)
Drowned Lands
125(5)
Voyaging About
130(7)
An Unfinished Symphony
137(6)
``The Lord of the Rings before all else''
137(2)
``A sad tale's best for winter''
139(4)
Afterword 143(2)
Notes 145(12)
Works Consulted 157(6)
Index 163

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