Critical Essays on Lord Dunsany [[electronic resource]] / edited by S. T. Joshi

• Record Nr.: UNINA9910790416303321
• Pubbl/distr/stampa: Lanham, Md. ; ; Plymouth, England, : Scarecrow Press, c2013
• ISBN: 0-8108-9235-9
• Descrizione fisica: 1 online resource (306 p.)
• Collana: Studies in Supernatural Literature
• Altri autori (Persone): JoshiS. T. <1958->
• Disciplina: 828.91209
• Lingua di pubblicazione: Inglese
• Formato: Materiale a stampa
• Livello bibliografico: Monografia
• Note generali: Includes index.
• Nota di contenuto: Contents; Acknowledgments; Introduction; I: Biographies and Memoirs; 1 Lord Dunsany; 2 Lord Dunsany; 3 Lord Dunsany; II: General Studies; 4 Introduction to Selections from the Writings of Lord Dunsany; 5 Lord Dunsany's Peculiar Genius; 6 Lord Dunsany and His Work; 7 Lord Dunsany; 8 Dreams of Empire, Empire of Dreams; 9 "The Laughter of the Gods"; III: On Dunsany's Fiction; 10 Introduction to A Dreamer's Tales and Other Stories; 11 Dunsany Lord of Fantasy; 12 A Dreamer's Tales; 13 Lord Dunsany; 14 Jorkens; IV: On Dunsany's Plays; 15 Mencken on Dunsany; 16 If; 17 Dunsany; 18 Beyond the Fields; V: On Individual Works19 A Tory Young Hopeful; 20 Sleep's Painted Scene; 21 The Archetypes of Romance and The King of Elfland's Daughter; 22 The Influence of Don Quixote on Lord Dunsany's Don Rodriguez; 23 Christianity and Paganism in Two Dunsany Novels; 24 Dunsany's Retreat from the Fantastic; VI: On Influences; 25 From Gods to Giants; 26 "The Strength of Imaginative Idiom"; 27 Lovecraft's "Dunsanian Studies"; 28 Recovering the Effects of Lord Dunsany on J. R. R. Tolkien; Index
• Sommario/riassunto: This collection of new essays and reprints of significant articles provides a comprehensive picture of Lord Dunsany's contribution to fantasy fiction and world literature. These essays make a case for the continued study of this neglected but hugely influential writer.