Meet Me on the Barricades (Canadian Literature Collection)

Meet Me at the Barricades is Harrison’s so much experimental paintings. the unconventional 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 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 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 have interaction with it, and that the real writers during this culture have had an important referring to the trajectory of English cultural existence in the course of the 20th century.

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

Unearths the outstanding 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 center of the Odyssey and the fable works of J. R. R. Tolkien • Examines Odysseus’s encounters with plant divinities, altered realization, animal shapeshifting, and sacred topography--all options very important to shamanism • unearths how the Odyssey emerged accurately on the rupture among glossy and primal realization Indigenous, shamanic methods of therapeutic and prophecy should not international to the West.

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

Quantity 2 of the main entire in-depth better half to Tolkien’s lifestyles and works ever released. This quantity encompasses a superlative daily chronology of Tolkien’s lifestyles, offering the main specific biographical checklist to be had. The J. R. R. Tolkien significant other and advisor is a accomplished guide to 1 of the preferred authors of the 20th century.