02833nam 2200529 a 450 991081054920332120200520144314.00-8108-9235-9(CKB)2550000001114333(EBL)1366442(SSID)ssj0000984311(PQKBManifestationID)12448937(PQKBTitleCode)TC0000984311(PQKBWorkID)11012566(PQKB)11403730(MiAaPQ)EBC1366442(Au-PeEL)EBL1366442(CaPaEBR)ebr10753053(CaONFJC)MIL514185(OCoLC)858941957(EXLCZ)99255000000111433320130912d2013 uy 0engur|n|---|||||txtccrCritical Essays on Lord Dunsany[electronic resource]edited by S. T. JoshiLanham, Md. ;Plymouth, England Scarecrow Pressc20131 online resource (306 p.)Studies in Supernatural LiteratureIncludes index.0-8108-9234-0 1-299-82934-1 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 FieldsV: 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; IndexThis 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.Studies in Supernatural Literature828.91209Joshi S. T.1958-1625163MiAaPQMiAaPQMiAaPQBOOK9910810549203321Critical Essays on Lord Dunsany3995913UNINA