J. R. R. Tolkien's The Lord of the Rings

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Brian Lumley and Stanley Wiater

"In The Brian Lumley Companion, Lumley aficionados will find an overview of Lumley's career, from his first short fiction up to the present day; essays comparing Lumley and H.P. Lovecraft; a lengthy interview with the author that delves into the heart of Lumley's relationship with the writers and editors who inspired him and the fans who support him; analyses of Lumley's short fiction and novels; and an interview with Bob Eggleton that gives insight into the development of his striking covers for the Necroscope series and other Lumley works." "This companion also includes complete listings of the first publications of each of Lumley's novels, short fiction, and poetry. Major attractions are the detailed concordances that focus on individual novels and series, including the three Psychomech titles, the Dreamlands and Primal Lands series, and each volume in the Necroscope series."--Jacket.

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Richard Carlin

Explores the roots and history of jazz, discussing how it first appeared and developed, its musical elements, and significant performers.

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Nigel Harkness

"Whereas the centrality of femininity to nineteenth-century French fiction has been the focus of widespread critical attention, masculinity has, until recently, received little sustained treatment in either the literary or socio-historical domains. In this book, Nigel Harkness uses the fiction of George Sand (1804-76), the pre-eminent woman writer of the period, to explore questions of masculinity as they pertain to the nineteenth-century French novel, and to map out new approaches to the study of literary masculinity." "Drawing on contemporary theories of gender and narrative, Harkness reveals how Sand's novels repeatedly focus on a nexus of language, masculinity and power, in which narrative is both a vehicle for the expression of manhood, and a site where masculinity is discursively performed. Masculinity is thus reconfigured in Sand's fiction as an identity constituted as much through words as through actions. Analysis of these performances of masculinity offers fresh insights into gendered processes of literary representation in the nineteenth-century French novel."--Jacket.

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Jula Wildberger

Just suppose someone wanted to teach the kind of love practiced in Latin love elegy. How would he do it? What difference does it make for 'elegiac love' if it becomes the subject matter of a do-it-yourself handbook? This is the leading question I've explored in this book, following the course step by step and analyzing the 'pedagogy' of Ovid, the Master of Love. Some readers might enjoy thinking about the logic of love by itself. For others, the book might provide something like a running commentary to a text the enjoy exploring. And if you are interested in the mechanics of literary devices, you can find here an in-depth discussion of a striking example of generic transformation, a transformation that would seem paradoxical or outright impossible: the metamorphosis of unhappy, always frustrated 'elegiac' love into the successful erotic practice of the Artists of Love. (The Author) P.S. The copyright for this book now belongs to me. Please feel free to use it for any non-commercial purpose.