Meet Me on the Barricades (Canadian Literature Collection)

Meet Me at the Barricades is Harrison’s so much experimental paintings. the radical contains a sequence of myth sequences that culminate in a scene seriously indebted to the Nighttown episode in James Joyce’s Ulysses (the novel was once released a yr ahead of James Thurber’s better-known brief tale, “The mystery lifetime of Walter Mitty”).

Modernity and the English Rural Novel

This booklet examines the endurance of the agricultural culture within the English novel into the 20th century. within the shadow of metropolitan literary tradition, rural writing can appear to attempt for a fable model of britain with out compelling social or old relevance. Dominic Head argues that the obvious disconnection is, in itself, a reaction to modernity instead of a refusal to interact with it, and that the real writers during this culture have had an important touching on the trajectory of English cultural existence during the 20th century.

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

Unearths the amazing parallels among indigenous cultures of the Americas and the traditional Homeric international in addition to Tolkien’s heart Earth • Explores the shamanic use of therapeutic songs, psychoactive crops, and imaginative and prescient quests on the center of the Odyssey and the myth works of J. R. R. Tolkien • Examines Odysseus’s encounters with plant divinities, altered realization, animal shapeshifting, and sacred topography--all recommendations very important to shamanism • unearths how the Odyssey emerged accurately on the rupture among smooth and primal awareness Indigenous, shamanic methods of therapeutic and prophecy should not overseas 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 incorporates a superlative daily chronology of Tolkien’s existence, providing the main designated biographical checklist to be had. The J. R. R. Tolkien better half and consultant is a finished instruction manual to at least one of the most well-liked authors of the 20th century.