Tolkien as a Literary Artist: Exploring Rhetoric, Language and Style in The Lord of the Rings

Acknowledgements
Contents
About the Authors
List of Tables
1: Introduction
	1.1	 Tolkien’s Status in Literary History
	1.2	 Corpus Stylistics
	1.3	 Metaphor and Metonymy15
	1.4	 Intertextuality32
	Works Cited
		Fiction, Poetry, and Other Primary Texts
		Critical Works Cited
2: Tolkien as a Stylist: Key Words and Key Collocations in The Lord of the Rings
	2.1	 Characterizing Tolkien’s Style
	2.2	 Methodology
	2.3	 Key Words in The Lord of the Rings2
		2.3.1	 Key Words Shared with Nineteenth-Century Fiction
		2.3.2	 Key Words Shared with Modern Fiction
		2.3.3	 Key Words Shared with Tolkien’s Translation of Beowulf
		2.3.4	 Key Words Exclusive to The Lord of the Rings
	2.4	 Key Collocations in The Lord of the Rings
	2.5	 Key N-Grams in The Lord of the Rings
	2.6	 Frequent Semantic Fields in The Lord of the Rings
	2.7	 Tolkien as a Stylist: Conclusion
	Appendix
		Key Words Exclusive to The Lord of the Rings
		Negative Key Words
	Works Cited
		Primary Texts
		Critical Works Cited
3: The Narrative Syntax of The Lord of the Rings
	3.1	 Background and Method
	3.2	 Dispreferred Constructions
		3.2.1	 Word Level
		3.2.2	 Phrase Level
		3.2.3	 Clause Level
	3.3	 Overused Constructions
		3.3.1	 Word Level
		3.3.2	 Phrase Level
		3.3.3	 Clause Level
	3.4	 Narrative Syntax: Conclusion and Two Sample Paragraphs
	Works Cited
		Primary Text:
		Critical Works Cited:
4: Points of View
	Works Cited
		Fiction, Poetry and Other Primary Texts
		Critical Works Cited
5: Landscape Descriptions
	Works Cited
		Fiction, Poetry and Other Primary Texts
		Critical Works Cited
6: Speeches and Declarations
	Works Cited
		Fiction, Poetry and Other Primary Texts
		Critical Works Cited
7: Storytelling
	Works Cited
		Primary Texts
		Critical Works Cited
8: Poems and Songs
	Works Cited
		Fiction, Poetry, and Other Primary Texts
		Critical Works Cited
9: Language and Character
	Works Cited
		Fiction, Poetry, and Other Primary Texts
		Critical Works Cited
10: Tolkien’s Position in Literary History
	Works Cited
		Primary Text
		Critical Works Cited
Index