Meet Me on the Barricades (Canadian Literature Collection)

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

Modernity and the English Rural Novel

This ebook 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 try for a myth 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 have interaction with it, and that the real writers during this culture have had an important concerning the trajectory of English cultural existence during the 20th century.

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

Finds the notable parallels among indigenous cultures of the Americas and the traditional Homeric global 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 fable works of J. R. R. Tolkien • Examines Odysseus’s encounters with plant divinities, altered cognizance, animal shapeshifting, and sacred topography--all recommendations important to shamanism • finds how the Odyssey emerged accurately on the rupture among smooth and primal cognizance Indigenous, shamanic methods of therapeutic and prophecy will not be 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 spouse to Tolkien’s existence and works ever released. This quantity incorporates a superlative daily chronology of Tolkien’s lifestyles, featuring the main special biographical list on hand. The J. R. R. Tolkien better half and advisor is a accomplished guide to 1 of the preferred authors of the 20th century.