Riddles are threaded through The Hobbit , and are key to Tolkien's creative imagination. The Riddles of The Hobbit situates this novel and the rest of Tolkien's writing in the context of Old English riddling culture, and more modern day examples; it sets out to solve the many riddles of the novel in original and often surprising ways.
Format: Hardback
CONTRIBUTORS: Adam Roberts
EAN: 9781137373632
COUNTRY: United Kingdom
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WEIGHT: 375 g
HEIGHT: 216 cm
PUBLISHED BY: Palgrave Macmillan
DATE PUBLISHED: 2013-11-01
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GENRE: FICTION / General, LITERARY CRITICISM / European / English, Irish, Scottish, Welsh, LITERARY CRITICISM / Children's & Young Adult Literature, LITERARY CRITICISM / Medieval, LITERARY CRITICISM / Modern / 20th Century
WIDTH: 140 cm
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Book Themes:
Europe, Literature: history and criticism, Literary studies: ancient, classical and medieval, Literary studies: c 1900 to c 2000, Children’s and teenage literature studies: general, Fiction and Related items
Adam Roberts is Professor of Nineteenth-century Literature at Royal Holloway, University of London, UK. He is also the author of more than a dozen science fiction novels: his most recent, Jack Glass (2012) won the BSFA and Campbell awards for the year's best science fiction novel. He has published a number of critical and academic works on science fiction, 19th-century and other topics.
