Mints M. M. “Osobennosti izucheniia voobrazhaemoi real’nosti na primere proizvedenii Dzh. R. R. Tolkina” [Special aspects of the study of imaginary worlds, through the example of fiction by J. R. R. Tolkien]. Vestnik kul’turologii [Herald of culturology], no. 1 (2026): 182–97.
The article deals with a number of theoretical and methodological issues related to the study of J. R. R. Tolkien’s fictional universe as an imaginary world. The author concentrates mainly on particularities of the primary sources, their classification, various kinds of internal authorship, interrelations between certain groups of Tolkien’s works. Tolkien’s own views on the nature of creative work are also considered.
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