The White Goddess is perhaps the finest of Robert Graves's works on the psychological and mythological sources of poetry. In this tapestry of poetic and religious scholarship, Graves explores the stories behind the earliest of European deities—the White Goddess of Birth, Love, and Death—who was worshipped under countless titles. He also uncovers the obscure and mysterious power of "pure poetry" and its peculiar and mythic language.

本书评价了近八十位有影响的小说家和一百多部长篇小说。从16世纪的塞万提斯到20世纪后期美国华裔女作家，风格多种多样，反映了四百年间小说艺术的流变。布鲁姆教授以资深读者的品位和独到眼光，带领我们走进小说家笔下那一个个异彩纷呈的世界，点评其艺术价值，分析各位作家所受影响和流派渊源，将阅读体验引向更深层次。

The content of Tolkien's Mythology, the Silmarillion, has been the subject of considerable exploration and analysis for many years, but the logistics of its development have been mostly ignored and deserve closer investigation. Nineteenth-and twentieth-century scholars understood the term "mythology as a gathering of song and story that derived from and described an identifiable world. Tolkien made a continuous effort over several years to construct a comprehensive mythology, to include not only the stories themselves but also the storytellers, scribes, and bards who were the offspring of his thought. In "Interrupted Music Flieger attempts to illuminate the structure of Tolkien's work, allowing the reader to appreciate its broad, overarching design and its careful, painstaking construction. She endeavors to "follow the music from its beginning as an idea in Tolkien's mind through to his final but never-implemented mechanism for realizing that idea, for bringing the voices of his story to the reading public. "In addition, Flieger reviews attempts at myth-making in the history of English literature by Spenser, Milton, and Blake as well as by Joyce and Yeats. She reflects on the important differences between Tolkien and his predecessors and even more between Tolkien and his contemporaries. This in-depth study will fascinate those interested in Tolkien and fantasy literature.

超人的力量能被用来从善，还是常常会诱惑人，从而导致恶果？自然会起而反抗技术吗？长生不老本是令人讨厌的负担？ 托尔金引入胜的史诗《指环王》所提出的扰人问题还有很多。托尔金希望，他的故事可以帮助变得更善良。他有意识地从神话、宗教和哲学思辨中选择了一些最麻烦、最具争议的主题。 巴沙姆和布朗森教授召集了一批既富哲学素养，又熟知中土之事的学者，来研究《指环王》所提出的这些令人着迷的问题。对这部我们时代最宏伟的传奇。大家的目的是要求得更真的理解。 希望本书不仅能帮助您理解一些《指环王》里饶有深意的深层问题，还能激发起您对一些亘古而常青的哲学问题的兴趣。