Loremasters And Libraries In Fantasy And Science Fiction A Gedenkschrift For David D. Oberhelman

EBook 2022

"David Dean Oberhelman (1965-2018) was a librarian and scholar with wide-ranging research interests, who had a long association with the Mythopoeic Society. He was an enthusiastic supporter of other scholars, a gifted editor, and an outstanding teacher. The core concept of this collection developed from panel discussions in which David drew together a group of fantasy, science fiction, and comics scholars to discuss libraries, librarians, archive...

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Fantasy literature History and criticism

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Littérature fantastique Histoire et critique

Tolkien, J. R. R. (John Ronald Reuel), 1892-1973 Criticism and interpretation

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9781887726160

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Contents:

Introduction / Janet Brennan Croft and Jason Fisher
Part 1 : Archives and librarianship. The David Oberhelman collection of science fiction, fantasy, and Tolkieniana at Oklahoma State University / Phillip Fitzsimmons
Cataloging creatively / Michele Seikel
Part 2 : Surveys and multiple sources. The novel in the library and the library in the novel : at the intersection of literature and library science / Conner Kirk and Victoria Gaydosik
"Books! Best weapons in the world" : how libraries save the world in popular culture / Kristine Larsen
When you have read it, it will be destroyed : the fugitive archive in fantasy and science fiction / Nicholas Birns
Books within books in fantasy and science fiction : "You are the dreamer and the dream" / Phillip Fitzsimmons
Is there an index to the prophecies? Or, finding the needle in the enchanted haystack / Janet Brennan Croft
Part 3 : topics in Tolkien studies. Legal precedent and Noldorin history : Míriel's weaving / Cami Agan
Recovering lost tales : found manunscripts in the works of J. R. R. Tolkien / Jason Fisher
A brief history of libraries in Middle-earth : manuscript and book repositories in Tolkien's legendarium / David D. Oberhelman
Education (and poetry recital) in Middle-earth and in England / Nancy Martsch
Part 4 : other individual authors and sources. L-Space : libraries and liminality, a place of magic / Elise Caemasache McKenna
Fforde's BookWorld as meta-library / David L. Emerson
Libraries as a fulcrum of change : Eric Flint's Ring of Fire: 1632 / Susan Adams-Johnson and Anna Holloway
"My kind of librarian or your kind of librarian?" : information seeking behavior in Supernatural / Liorah Golomb
Curriculum vitae / David Dean Oberhelman

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3254888

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Croft, Janet Brennan, editor, author
Fisher, Jason, 1970- editor, author
Mythopoeic Society (U.S.)
Oberhelman, David D., honouree
OverDrive, Inc., distributor
Overdrive

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