Selected Bibliography:

Style, Stylistics, Corpus Linguistics, Corpora, Concordances, Digital Humanities, Translation & Tolkien

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This bibliography draws from work I did before I retired: it is not up to date in terms of the most current scholarship in these related fields. But it can serve as a start: the sources include textbooks on linguistics and corpus methodologies, free textual analysis programs, and stylistic scholarship on Tolkien’s work (as well as on other authors’ work). Most scholarly work in this area is done on literary texts that are in the public domain, especially the corpus scholarship.

If you have created or published works in these area, or know of publications, please post the bibiliographic information in a comment!

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Adamson, H. D. Linguistics and English Literature: An Introduction. Cambridge UP, 2019, Cambridge Introductions to the English Language.

Agøy, Nils Ivar. "Vague or Vivid?: Descriptions in The Lord of the Rings." Tolkien Studies, vol. 10, 2013, pp. 49-67.

Alden, Laurie Frances (Sparrow). Words That You Were Saying: A Tolkien Concordance. Link.

Anderson, Wendy, and John Corbett. Exploring English with Online Corpora. 2nd edition. Palgrave Macmillan, 2017.

Anthony, Laurence. "AntConc." 3.4. Link. Accessed 24 Nov. 2024.

British National Corpus (BNC). Link.

Carter, Ronald, and Peter Stockwell, editors. The Language and Literature Reader. Routledge, 2008.

Center for Social Media & Social Impact. "The Code of Best Practices in Fair Use for Academic and Research Libraries." Link. Accessed 24 Nov. 2024.

Chen, Fanfan. "Tolkien's Style of Fantasy: Hypotyposis, Metalepsis, Harmonism. Caitele Echinox, vol. 26, 2014, pp. 63-82.

Cheverie, Joan. "The HathiTrust Case and Appeal: Fair Use and Technology." Educause. Link. Accessedd 24 Nov. 2024.

Corpus of Middle English Prose and Verse. Link.

Dictionary of Old English Corpus (DOE). Link.

Drout, Michael D. C. "Tolkien's Prose Style and Its Literary and Rhetorical Effects." Tolkien Studies, vol. 1, 2004, pp. 137-62.

Drout, Michael D.C. and Hilary Wynne, "Tom Shippey's J. R. R. Tolkien: Author of the Century and a Look back at Tolkien Criticism since 1982,'' Envoi, vol 9, no. 2, Fall 2000, pp. 101-167.

Drout, Michael D. C., Mark LeBlanc, and Scott Kleinman. “Lexomics”. Link. Accessed 24 Nov. 2024.

Drout, Michael D. C., Namiko Hitotsubashi, and Rachael Scavera. "Tolkien's Creation of the Impression of Depth." Tolkien Studies, vol. 11, 2014, pp. 167-211.

Filipovic, Rudolf. "The Use of a Corpus in Contrastive Studies." Studia Romanica et Anglica Zagrabiensia, vol. 33-36, 1972, pp. 489-500.

Fisher-Starcke, Bettina. Corpus Linguistics in Literary Analysis: Jane Austen and her Contemporaries. Continuum, 2010.

Fischer-Starcke, Bettina. "Keywords and Frequent Phrases of Jane Austen's Pride and Prejudice: A Corpus-Stylistic Analysis." International Journal of Corpus Linguistics, vol. 14, iss. 4, 2009, pp. 492-523.

Flieger, Verlyn. Splintered Light: Logos and Language in Tolkien's World. Rev. ed., Kent State UP, 2002.

Fowler, Roger. Linguistic Criticism. 2nd edition. Oxford UP, 1996.

Gilliver, Peter, Jeremy Marshall, and Edmund Weiner. The Ring of Words: Tolkien and the Oxford English Dictionary. Oxford UP, 2006.

Halliday, M.A.K. An Introduction to Functional Grammar. 2nd edition. Oxford UP, 1994.

Hiley, Margaret. "The Lord of the Rings and 'Late Style': Tolkien, Adorno and Said." Tolkien and Modernity 2, edited by Honegger, Thomas and Frank Weinreich. Cormarë Series, 10. Walking Tree, 2006, pp. 53-73.

Honegger, Thomas, editor. Tolkien in Translation. Comarë Series, 4. Walking Tree Press, 2011.

---. Translating Tolkien: Text and Film. Comarë Ser. 6. Walking Tree Press, 2011.

Hoover, David. "Corpus Stylistics, Stylometry, and the Styles of Henry James." Style, vol. 41, no. 2 , 2007, pp. 174-203.

Hoover, David L., Jonathan Culpeper, and Kieran O'Halloran. Digital Literary Studies: Corpus Approaches to Poetry, Prose, and Drama. Routledge Advances in Corpus Linguistics Series, 16. Routledge, 2014.

Hori, Masahiro. Investigating Dickens' Style: A Collocational Analysis. Palgrave Macmillan, 2004.

Jeffries, Lesley, and Dan McIntyre. Stylistics. Cambridge UP, 2010.

Johansson, Emil. Lord of the Rings Project. Link. Accessed 24 Nov. 2024.

Kirk, Elizabeth D. "'I Would Rather Have Written in Elvish': Language, Fiction and The Lord of the Rings." Novel: A Forum on Fiction, vol. 5, iss.1, 1971, pp. 5-18.

Kullmann, Thomas, and Dirk Siepmann. Tolkien as a Literary Artist: Exploring Rhetoric, Language and Style in The Lord of the Rings. Palgrave Macmillan, 2021.

Lockers, Matthew. Macroanalysis: Digital Methods & Literary History. Topics in the Digital Humanities Ser. U of Illinois P, 2013.

Mahlberg, Michaela, and Dan McIntyre. "A Case for Corpus Stylistics: Ian Fleming's Casino Royale." English Text Construction, vol. 4, iss. 2, 2011, pp. 204-27.

Mahlberg, Michaela. Corpus Stylistics and Dickens's Fiction. Routledge Advances in Corpus Linguistics Ser. 14. Routledge, 2013.

Mahlberg, Michaela. "Corpus Stylistics: Bridging the Gap between Linguistic and Literary Studies." Text, Discourse and Corpora: Theory and Analysis, edited by Mahlberg, Michaela, Wolfgang Teubert and John Sinclair. Corpus and Discourse (Candd). Continuum, 2007, pp. 219-46.

Mahlberg, Michaela, and Michael McCarthy. "A Corpus Stylistic Perspective on Dickens' Great Expectations." Contemporary Stylistics, edited by Lambrou, Marina and Peter Stockwell. Continuum, 2007. 19-31.

Moretti, Franco. Distant Reading. Verso, 2013.

Novakova, Iva, and Dirk Siepmann. Phraseology and Style in Subgenres of the Novel: A Synthesis of Corpus and Literary Perspectives. Palgrave Macmillan, 2020.

O'Donnell, Mick. "UAM Corpus Tool." Link. Accessed 24 Nov. 2024.

O'Halloran, Kieran. "The Subconscious in James Joyce's 'Eveline': A Corpus Stylistic Analysis That Chews on the 'Fish Hook'." Language and Literature: Journal of the Poetics and Linguistics Association, vol. 16, iss. 3, 2007, pp. 227-44.

Rayson, Paul. “Wmatrix Corpus Analysis and Comparison Tool." Link. Accessed 24, Nov. 2024.

Reid, Robin Anne. "Mythology and History: A Stylistic Analysis of The Lord of the Rings," Style, vol. 43, no. 4, Winter 2009, pp. 517-538.

Reid, Robin Anne. "'Tree and flower, leaf and grass': The Grammar of Middle-earth in The Lord of the Rings," Fantasy Fiction into Film, edited by Leslie Stratyner and James R. Keller, McFarland, 2007, pp. 35-54.

Reid, Robin Anne. "'Within Bounds That He Has Set': A Stylistic Analysis of Cities and Strongholds in The Lord of the Rings," Cities and Strongholds of Middle-earth: Essays on the Habitations of Tolkien's Legendarium, edited by Cami Agan. Mythopoeic Press, 2024, pp. 134-159.

Rosebury, Brian. Tolkien: A Cultural Phenomenon. 2nd ed. Palgrave Macmillan, 2003.

Semino, Elena, and Mick Short. Corpus Stylistics: Speech, Writing and Thought Presentation in a Corpus of English Writing. Routledge, 2004.

Stanford Literary Lab. Stanford University. Directed by Frank Moretti. Link. Accessed 24. Nov. 2024.

Stubbs, Michael. Text and Corpus Analysis: Computer-Assisted Studies of Language and Culture. Blackwell, 1996.

Studer, Patrick. Historical Corpus Stylistics: Media, Technology and Change. Corpus and Discourse (Candd). Continuum, 2008.

Tauber, James. Digital Tolkien Project. Link.

Toolan, Michael. Narrative Progression in the Short Story: A Corpus Stylistic Approach. Linguistic Approaches to Literature, 6. John Benjamins, 2009.

---. "Narrative Progression in the Short Story: First Steps in a Corpus Stylistic Approach." Narrative, vol. 16, no. 2, 2008, pp. 105-20.

Verdonk, Peter. Stylistics. Oxford UP, 2002.

Vintar, Špela, and Silvia Hansen-Schirra. "Cognates: Free Rides, False Friends or Stylistic Devices? A Corpus-Based Comparative Study." Meaningful Texts: The Extraction of Semantic Information from Monolingual and Multilingual Corpora, edited by Barnbrook, Geoff, Pernilla Danielsson and Michaela Mahlberg. Corpus and Discourse (Candd). Continuum, 2005. 208-21.

Walker, Steve. The Power of Tolkien's Prose: Middle-earth's Magical Style. Palgrave Macmillan, 2009.

Widdowson, Henry G. "The Novel Features of Text: Corpus Analysis and Stylistics." Language, People, Numbers: Corpus Linguistics and Society, edited by Gerbig, Andrea and Oliver Mason. Language and Computers: Studies in Practical Linguistics (L&Comp), 64. Rodopi, 2008. 293-304.