This book takes a fresh look at Tolkien’s literary artistry from the points of view of both linguistics and literary history, with the aim of shedding light on the literary techniques used in The Lord of the Rings. The authors study Tolkien’s use of words, style, narrative techniques, rhetoric and symbolism to highlight his status as literary artist. Dirk Siepmann uses a corpus stylistic approach to analyse Tolkien’s vocabulary and syntax, while Thomas Kullmann uses discourse theory, literary history and concepts of intertextuality to explore Tolkien’s literary techniques, relating them to the history of English fiction and poetry. Issues discussed include point of view, speeches, story-telling, landscape descriptions, the poems inserted into the body of the narrative, and the role of language in the characterization of the novel’s protagonists. This book will be of particular interest to students and scholars of literature, corpus linguistics and stylistics, as well as Tolkien fans and specialists.

This book takes a fresh look at Tolkien's literary artistry from the points of view of both linguistics and literary history, with the aim of shedding light on the literary techniques used in The Lord of the Rings. The authors study Tolkien's use of words, style, narrative techniques, rhetoric and symbolism to highlight his status as literary artist. Dirk Siepmann uses a corpus stylistic approach to analyse Tolkien's vocabulary and syntax, while Thomas Kullmann uses discourse theory, literary history and concepts of intertextuality to explore Tolkien's literary techniques, relating them to the history of English fiction and poetry. Issues discussed include point of view, speeches, story-telling, landscape descriptions, the poems inserted into the body of the narrative, and the role of language in the characterization of the novel's protagonists. This book will be of particular interest to students and scholars of literature, corpus linguistics and stylistics, as well as Tolkien fans and specialists. Thomas Kullmann is Professor of English Literature at the University of Osnabrück, Germany. He has published widely on Shakespeare and the English Renaissance, English children's literature and the nineteenth- and twentieth-century novel. Dirk Siepmann is Professor of English as a Second Language at the University of Osnabrück, Germany. He has 25 years of experience in applied linguistics, with an extensive background in corpus linguistics and language teaching. He has authored 12 books, including two major monographs on translation studies and one on contrastive linguistics, and has co-authored or edited a further 14 volumes.

Der vorliegende Band führt in leicht verständlicher Form in das Werk William Shakespeares ein. Das besondere Augenmerk des Verfassers gilt den vielfältigen kulturellen Bedingungen, vor deren Hintergrund Shakespeares Dramen und Gedichte entstanden. Theater, Schulwesen, höfische und bürgerliche Kultur, Politik, Religion, Geschichtsschreibung, Philosophie und Medizin der Shakespeare-Zeit werden angesprochen und mit den Werken in Beziehung gesetzt. Textnah führt Thomas Kullmann den Leser dabei hinsichtlich sprachlicher und inhaltlicher Aspekte durch die einzelnen Werke.

In englischen Romanen des neunzehnten Jahrhunderts dienen Schilderungen von Landschaft und Wetter der Verdeutlichung des Geschehens bzw. der Charakterisierung der Personen. Die Untersuchung analysiert diese Naturmotivik als komplexes Zeichensystem. Die Entwicklung dieses Erzählverfahrens, die von Anfängen im 18. Jahrhundert zur psychologischen Darstellungsknst in der Gothic Novel (Radcliffe, Maturin) und im viktorianischen Roman (Brontë Sisters, Dickens) und zur Naturphilosophie Thomas Hardys führt, wird an Textbeispielen nachgezeichnet.

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