Meet Me on the Barricades (Canadian Literature Collection)

Meet Me at the Barricades is Harrison’s so much 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 was once 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 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 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 lifestyles in the course of the 20th century.

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

Finds 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 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 important to shamanism • unearths how the Odyssey emerged accurately on the rupture among sleek and primal attention 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 accomplished in-depth significant other to Tolkien’s lifestyles and works ever released. This quantity contains a superlative daily chronology of Tolkien’s existence, offering the main specified biographical list on hand. The J. R. R. Tolkien significant other and consultant is a accomplished guide to at least one of the preferred authors of the 20 th century.