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Mythlore: A Journal of J.R.R. Tolkien, C.S. Lewis, Charles Williams, and Mythopoeic Literature
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The Fantastic Sublime: Tolkien’S ‘On Fairy-Stories’ And The Romantic Sublime, David Sandner
The Fantastic Sublime: Tolkien’S ‘On Fairy-Stories’ And The Romantic Sublime, David Sandner
Mythlore: A Journal of J.R.R. Tolkien, C.S. Lewis, Charles Williams, and Mythopoeic Literature
Discusses Romantic views of the sublime as they relate to Tolkien’s “On Fairy-stories.” Distinguishes the Gothic (“the literature of fear”) from fairy-stories and most children’s fantasy (“the literature of joy”).