Meet Me on the Barricades (Canadian Literature Collection)

Meet Me at the Barricades is Harrison’s such a lot experimental paintings. the unconventional incorporates a sequence of fable sequences that culminate in a scene seriously indebted to the Nighttown episode in James Joyce’s Ulysses (the novel was once released a yr earlier than James Thurber’s better-known brief tale, “The mystery lifetime of Walter Mitty”).

Modernity and the English Rural Novel

This e-book examines the patience of the agricultural culture within the English novel into the 20 th century. within the shadow of metropolitan literary tradition, rural writing can appear to try for a delusion model of britain without compelling social or historic relevance. Dominic Head argues that the plain disconnection is, in itself, a reaction to modernity instead of a refusal to have interaction with it, and that the real writers during this culture have had an important relating the trajectory of English cultural existence throughout the 20th century.

The Shamanic Odyssey: Homer, Tolkien, and the Visionary Experience

Unearths the extraordinary parallels among indigenous cultures of the Americas and the traditional Homeric global in addition to Tolkien’s center Earth • Explores the shamanic use of therapeutic songs, psychoactive vegetation, and imaginative and prescient quests on the middle of the Odyssey and the delusion works of J. R. R. Tolkien • Examines Odysseus’s encounters with plant divinities, altered awareness, animal shapeshifting, and sacred topography--all strategies important to shamanism • unearths how the Odyssey emerged accurately on the rupture among smooth and primal awareness Indigenous, shamanic methods of therapeutic and prophecy aren't international to the West.

The J. R. R. Tolkien Companion and Guide: Volume 3: Reader’s Guide PART 2

Quantity 2 of the main complete in-depth significant other to Tolkien’s existence and works ever released. This quantity features a superlative daily chronology of Tolkien’s existence, providing the main special biographical checklist to be had. The J. R. R. Tolkien spouse and consultant is a finished guide to 1 of the preferred authors of the 20th century.