Meet Me on the Barricades (Canadian Literature Collection)

Meet Me at the Barricades is Harrison’s so much experimental paintings. the unconventional encompasses 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 12 months earlier than James Thurber’s better-known brief tale, “The mystery lifetime of Walter Mitty”).

Modernity and the English Rural Novel

This booklet examines the patience 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 delusion model of britain with out compelling social or historic relevance. Dominic Head argues that the obvious 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 concerning the trajectory of English cultural existence in the course of the 20th century.

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

Unearths the remarkable 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 crops, and imaginative and prescient quests on the middle of the Odyssey and the fable works of J. R. R. Tolkien • Examines Odysseus’s encounters with plant divinities, altered recognition, animal shapeshifting, and sacred topography--all suggestions important to shamanism • finds how the Odyssey emerged accurately on the rupture among sleek and primal realization 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 accomplished in-depth better half to Tolkien’s existence and works ever released. This quantity incorporates a superlative daily chronology of Tolkien’s lifestyles, offering the main designated biographical list to be had. The J. R. R. Tolkien spouse and advisor is a entire instruction manual to at least one of the preferred authors of the 20 th century.