LIBROS DEL AUTOR: hamish williams

3 resultados para LIBROS DEL AUTOR: hamish williams

  • Under the Green Cloud
    Hamish Williams
    A Second Adventure in BasthiniaAfter the King of the Yellow River is defeated, the children from Covendale are finally ready to return home. Upon approaching Nova Marmoxa, however, they witness a strange sight on the horizon - a thick green cloud is wrapped around the sleepy Laubendan city. Sage believes this cloud has something to do with a period of Basthinian history called ...
    Disponible

    22,43 €

  • J.R.R. Tolkien’s Utopianism and the Classics
    Hamish Williams
    This book opens up new perspectives on the English fantasy writer J.R.R. Tolkien, arguing that he was an influential thinker of utopianism in 20th-century fiction and that his scrutiny of utopias can be assessed through his dialogue with antiquity. Tolkien’s engagement with the ancient world often reflects an interest in retrotopianism: his fictional places - cities, forests, h...
    Disponible

    51,19 €

  • Tolkien and the Classical World
    Hamish Williams
    While scholars have often cited the influence of medieval texts and society on J.R.R. Tolkien’s seminal fantasy creations, the role of the classical world - the literature and thought of ancient Greece and Rome - has received far less attention. This volume of essays explores various ways in which Tolkien’s literary creations were shaped by classical epic, myth, poetry, history...
    Disponible

    39,70 €