Tom Shippey, Professor Emeritus für English, St. Louis University wird eine öffentliche Vorlesung zum Thema “Writing into the Gap: Tolkien’s The Legend of Sigurd & Gudrún” am University of Wales Institute, Cardiff halten am
Mittwoch 23. März 2011,
18 Uhr, Lecture Theatre 4
Cyncoed Campus Cardiff
Der Eintritt ist frei, aber Plätze sind limitiert.
Anmeldungen deshalb per E-mail an:
Für eine Kurzbiographie von Tom Shippey in englischer Sprache s. englische Version der Website.
Tom Shippey, Professor Emeritus of English, St. Louis University will hold an open lecture on “Writing into the Gap: Tolkien’s The Legend of Sigurd & Gudrún” at the University of Wales Institute, Cardiff on
Wednesday 23 March 2011,
7 pm Lecture Theatre 4
Cyncoed Campus Cardiff
Admission is free but numbers are limited,
to book your place please email:
Tom Shippey has published extensively on medieval literature, and has recently been working on ‘medievalism’ and romantic nationalism, focusing on the work of Jacob Grimm. He established Tolkien scholarship by his acclaimed monograph The Road to Middle-earth, now supplemented by J.R.R. Tolkien: Author of the Century. As the foremost Tolkien scholar, he contributed in the documentaries associated with Peter Jackson’s adaptation of The Lord of the Rings.
