When The Lord of the Rings was published in the 1950s it did not sit comfortably among any preconceived notions of literary genre. The critical responses reflected the confusion: for some, it was an unwelcome reappearance of narrative standards that modernism was supposed to have done away with, or just a bad novel. Others considered it a refreshing work in the epic and romance traditions.
Ironically, much of the critical prejudice regarding the question of genre in The Lord of the Rings has been motivated by the same kind of blindness that Tolkien denounced in his famous 1936 lecture...
When The Lord of the Rings was published in the 1950s it did not sit comfortably among any preconceived notions of literary genre. The critical respon...
El presente libro estudia la influencia de diferentes tradiciones narrativas europeas y el mito del Oeste norteamericano sobre la obra de Stephen King El Pistolero . El análisis propiamente dicho se centra en cómo King integra ambas esferas de influencia en un nuevo mundo secundario, el de la Torre Oscura.
El presente libro estudia la influencia de diferentes tradiciones narrativas europeas y el mito del Oeste norteamericano sobre la obra de Stephen King...