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 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 sooner 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 fable model of britain without compelling social or old 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 relating the trajectory of English cultural existence in the course of 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 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 recognition, animal shapeshifting, and sacred topography--all thoughts very important to shamanism • finds how the Odyssey emerged accurately on the rupture among sleek and primal cognizance 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 spouse to Tolkien’s existence and works ever released. This quantity contains a superlative daily chronology of Tolkien’s existence, proposing the main specified biographical checklist to be had. The J. R. R. Tolkien significant other and consultant is a entire guide to at least one of the preferred authors of the 20 th century.