Tolkien Studies: Volume 13

Tolkien Studies: Volume 13
Editor	David Bratman, Michael D.C. Drout, Verlyn Flieger
Publisher	West Virginia University Press
Released	December, 2016
Format	Paperback; electronic

Tolkien Studies: Volume 13 is the thirteenth volume of the annual review Tolkien Studies.

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Contents

• Articles
  • Simon Cook: "The Cauldron at the Outer Edge: Tolkien on the Oldest English Fairy Tales"
  • Paul Acker: "Tolkien’s Sellic Spell: A Beowulfian Fairy Tale"
  • John D. Rateliff: "'That Seems To Me Fatal': Pagan and Christian in The Fall of Arthur"
  • T.S. Sudell: "The Alliterative Verse of The Fall of Arthur"
  • Dennis Wilson Wise, "Book of the Lost Narrator: Re-Reading the 1977 Silmarillion as a Unified Text"
  • Jeremy Painter: "'A Honeycomb Gathered from Different Flowers': Tolkien-the-Compiler's Middle-earth ‘Sources’ in The Lord of the Rings"
  • Michael Potts: "'Evening-Lands': Spenglerian Tropes in The Lord of the Rings"
  • Matthew M. DeForrest: "J.R.R. Tolkien and the Irish Question"
  • Robin Anne Reid: "Tolkien’s Literary Theory and Practice"
  • Edith L. Crowe: "Source and Comparative Studies"
  • John Wm. Houghton: "Religious and Devotional"
  • David Bratman: "Tolkien’s Subcreation"
  • John Magoun: "Reception and Adaptation Studies"

• Book Reviews
  • Christopher Gilson: "In the Nameless Wood: Explorations in the Philological Hinterland of Tolkien’s Literary Creations by J. S. Ryan" (review)
  • Andrew Higgins: "Tolkien and Philosophy ed. by Roberto Arduini, Claudio A. Testi" (review)
  • Valerie Estelle Frankel: "The Body in Tolkien’s Legendarium: Essays on Middle-earth Corporeality ed. by Christopher Vaccaro" (review)
  • Valerie Estelle Frankel: "Tolkien in the New Century: Essays in Honor of Tom Shippey ed. by John Wm. Houghton, et al" (review)
  • Sarah Beach: "The Art of The Lord of the Rings by J.R.R. Tolkien by Wayne G. Hammond, Christina Scull" (review)
  • Kristine Larsen: "Arda Inhabited: Environmental Relationships in The Lord of the Rings, by Susan Jeffers" (review)

• General Criticism
  • Jason Fisher: "The Lord of the Rings and Tolkien’s Work as a Whole"
  • John Magoun: "The Hobbit"
  • David Bratman: "Other Works"

• Philology and Language Studies
  • David Bratman: "Tolkien’s Professional Work"
  • Robin Anne Reid: "Tolkien’s Use of English"
  • David Bratman: "Invented Languages"

• "The Year’s Work in Tolkien Studies 2013", by David Bratman, Edith L. Crowe, Jason Fisher, John Wm. Houghton, John Magoun, Robin Anne Reid
• "Bibliography (In English) for 2014", by David Bratman

External links

• Tolkien Studies: Volume 13 at Project Muse