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 ahead of James Thurber’s better-known brief tale, “The mystery lifetime of Walter Mitty”).

Modernity and the English Rural Novel

This ebook 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 fable 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 touching on the trajectory of English cultural lifestyles throughout the 20th century.

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

Unearths the impressive 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 vegetation, 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 attention, animal shapeshifting, and sacred topography--all suggestions very important to shamanism • finds how the Odyssey emerged accurately on the rupture among glossy 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 accomplished in-depth better half to Tolkien’s lifestyles and works ever released. This quantity encompasses a superlative daily chronology of Tolkien’s existence, providing the main certain biographical checklist to be had. The J. R. R. Tolkien better half and consultant is a accomplished instruction manual to 1 of the preferred authors of the 20 th century.