Secret Vice: Tolkien on Invented Languages
Tolkien John Ronald Reuel
First ever critical study of Tolkien`s little-known essay, which reveals how language invention shaped the creation of Middle-earth and beyond, to George R R Martin`s Game of Thrones.J.R.R. Tolkien`s linguistic invention was a fundamental part of his artistic output, to the extent that later on in life he attributed the existence of his mythology to the desire to give his languages a home and peoples to speak them. As Tolkien puts it in `A Secret Vice`, `the making of language and mythology are related functions``.In the 1930s, Tolkien composed and delivered two lectures, in which he explored these two key elements of his sub-creative methodology. The second of these, the seminal Andrew Lang Lecture for 1938-9, `On Fairy-Stories`, which...
ISBN: 9780008131418
Дата выхода: октябрь 2020
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