"I Would Rather Have Written in Elvish": Language, Fiction and "The Lord of the Rings"

Author(s): Elizabeth D. Kirk

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NOVEL: A Forum on Fiction, Vol. 5, No. 1 (Autumn, 1971), pp. 5-18

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Duke University Press

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Article Contents

Issue Table of Contents

NOVEL: A Forum on Fiction, Vol. 5, No. 1 (Autumn, 1971), pp. 1-96
- Front Matter [pp. 1 - 4]
- "I Would Rather Have Written in Elvish": Language, Fiction and "The Lord of the Rings" [pp. 5 - 18]
- Castles and Anti-Castles, or Kafka and Robbe-Grillet [pp. 19 - 31]
- Community in "Women in Love" [pp. 32 - 41]
- Anality in "The Mill on the Floss" [pp. 42 - 53]
- Critical Exchange
  - On "Lawrence Up-Tight": Four Tail-Pieces [pp. 54 - 70]
- Reviews
  - More Picaresque [pp. 71 - 74]
  - More Stevick [pp. 75 - 76]
  - untitled [pp. 77 - 78]
  - English History [pp. 79 - 81]
  - American Hearts [pp. 82 - 83]
  - untitled [pp. 84 - 86]
  - Captive Clowns [pp. 94 - 96]
- Political Fates
  - untitled [pp. 87 - 89]
  - untitled [pp. 89 - 91]
  - untitled [pp. 92 - 93]
- Back Matter