Meet Me on the Barricades (Canadian Literature Collection)

Meet Me at the Barricades is Harrison’s such a lot experimental paintings. the radical features a sequence of fable sequences that culminate in a scene seriously indebted to the Nighttown episode in James Joyce’s Ulysses (the novel used to be 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 publication 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 with out compelling social or ancient relevance. Dominic Head argues that the plain 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 relating the trajectory of English cultural lifestyles during the 20th century.

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

Finds the outstanding 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 middle of the Odyssey and the delusion works of J. R. R. Tolkien • Examines Odysseus’s encounters with plant divinities, altered cognizance, animal shapeshifting, and sacred topography--all recommendations very important to shamanism • finds how the Odyssey emerged accurately on the rupture among glossy and primal attention 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 spouse to Tolkien’s existence and works ever released. This quantity incorporates a superlative daily chronology of Tolkien’s existence, featuring the main specified biographical checklist on hand. The J. R. R. Tolkien better half and advisor is a entire instruction manual to 1 of the preferred authors of the 20 th century.