Splintered Light

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Edition: Revised
Format: Paperback
Pub. Date: 2002-11-01
Publisher(s): Kent State Univ Pr
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Author Biography

Verlyn Flieger is professor of English at the University of Maryland at College Park.

Table of Contents

Preface to the Second Edition vii
Preface to the First Edition xi
Introduction xiii
A Man of Antitheses
1(10)
Dyscatastrophe
11(10)
Eucatastrophe
21(12)
Poetic Diction and Splintered Light
33(12)
Fantasy and Phenomena
45(4)
Splintered Light and Splintered Being
49(8)
Theme and Variations
57(10)
A Disease of Mythology
67(6)
Perception = Name = Identity
73(8)
Ourselves as Others See Us
81(6)
amazing wine and cellar doors
87(10)
Light and Heat
97(10)
Making versus Hoarding
107(12)
Light Out of Darkness
119(8)
Beyond the Music
127(5)
Light for Light
132(7)
Beren and Thingol
139(8)
The Smallest Fragment
147(8)
Filled with Clear Light
155(12)
One Good Custom
167(8)
Afterword 175(2)
Notes 177(6)
Works Consulted 183(2)
Index 185

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