Dirk Siepmann

Tolkien as a Literary Artist

Exploring Rhetoric, Language and Style in The Lord of the Rings

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This book takes a fresh look at Tolkien¿s literary artistry from the points of view of both linguistics and literary history, with the aim of shedding light on the literary techniques used in The Lord of the Rings. The authors study Tolkien¿s use of words, style, narrative techniques, rhetoric and symbolism to highlight his status as literary artist. Dirk Siepmann uses a corpus stylistic approach to analyse Tolkien¿s vocabulary and syntax, while Thomas Kullmann uses discourse theory, literary history and concepts of intertextuality to explore Tolkien¿s literary techniques, relating them to the history of English fiction and poetry. Issues dis… Mehr

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Produktdetails

Weitere Autoren: Kullmann, Thomas

ISBN: 978-3-030-69301-5
EAN: 9783030693015
Produktnummer: 38843672
Verlag: Springer International Publishing
Sprache: Englisch
Erscheinungsjahr: 2022
Seitenangabe: 336 S.
Masse: H21.0 cm x B14.8 cm x D1.8 cm 436 g
Auflage: 1st ed. 2021
Abbildungen: Paperback
Gewicht: 436

Über den Autor

Thomas Kullmann is Professor of English Literature at the University of Osnabrück, Germany. He has published widely on Shakespeare and the English Renaissance, English children's literature and the nineteenth- and twentieth-century novel.Dirk Siepmann is Professor of English as a Second Language at the University of Osnabrück, Germany. He has 25 years of experience in applied linguistics, with an extensive background in corpus linguistics and language teaching. He has authored 12 books, including two major monographs on translation studies and one on contrastive linguistics, and has co-authored or edited a further 14 volumes.