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Stephen Walker (other)
Stephen Walker or Steven Walker may refer to: People * Stephen Walker (sculptor) (1927–2014), Australian artist * Stephen Walker, Australian writer and photographer (born 1968) * Steven C. Walker, American scholar of English literature, author of a book on Tolkien's prose style * Stephen Todd Walker (born 1966), American finance expert and author * Steve Walker (born 1973), Canadian ice hockey player * Stephen Walker (footballer) (born 2000), English footballer * Stephen Walker (filmmaker), British filmmaker and author * Stephen James Walker, British writer and editor * Stephen Walker, musician in Modern English * Steven Walker, musician in Spitfire * Stephen Walker, broadcaster 3RRR * Steven Walker (politician), member of the Arkansas House of Representatives Characters * Stephen Walker, a character on ''Criminal Minds'' * Steve Walker, a character in ''In the Flesh In the Flesh may refer to: Books * ''In the Flesh'' (2009 graphic novel), a collection of stories by K ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Stephen Walker (sculptor)
Stephen Walker (1927 – 16 June 2014) was an Australian sculptor who was made a member of the Order of Australia in 1985. In 2011, he was inducted into the Music Victoria Hall of Fame. Early life Walker was born in Balwyn or Colac, Victoria in Australia in 1927. He left school at age 13 but attended Melbourne Teachers' College from 1945 to 1947 before moving to Hobart in 1948. In the 1950s he repeatedly traveled to Europe, studying sculpting under Henry Moore from 1954 to 1956 and visiting Rome, Florence and Prague through scholarships. On his return to Australia he settled in Tasmania. Work Walker mainly created bronze sculptures, including the ''Tank Stream Fountain'' (1981) in Herald Square near Circular Quay, Sydney and a memorial for Antarctic explorer Louis Bernacchi at Hobart's Victoria Dock. His statues were designed to be usable, for example by strengthening them so people could sit on them. Four of his works are included in the National Heritage Register ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Tolkien's Prose Style
The prose style of J. R. R. Tolkien's Middle-earth books, especially '' The Lord of the Rings'', is remarkably varied. Commentators have noted that Tolkien selected linguistic registers to suit different peoples, such as simple and modern for Hobbits and more archaic for Dwarves, Elves, and Riders of Rohan. This allowed him to use the Hobbits to mediate between the modern reader and the heroic and archaic realm of fantasy. The Orcs, too, are depicted in different voices: the Orc-leader Grishnákh speaks in bullying tones, while the minor functionary Gorbag uses grumbling modern speech. Tolkien's prose style was attacked by scholars of literature such as Catharine R. Stimpson and Burton Raffel in the 20th century. It has more recently been analysed more favourably, both by other novelists such as Ursula Le Guin, and by scholars such as Brian Rosebury and Tom Shippey. Where Stimpson called Tolkien's diction needlessly complex, Rosebury argues that even in the example she ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
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