Meet Me on the Barricades (Canadian Literature Collection)

Meet Me at the Barricades is Harrison’s so much experimental paintings. the radical incorporates 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 publication 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 historic 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 pertaining to the trajectory of English cultural lifestyles during the 20th century.

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

Unearths 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 center of the Odyssey and the myth works of J. R. R. Tolkien • Examines Odysseus’s encounters with plant divinities, altered awareness, animal shapeshifting, and sacred topography--all thoughts very important to shamanism • unearths how the Odyssey emerged accurately on the rupture among sleek and primal awareness 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 significant other to Tolkien’s existence and works ever released. This quantity incorporates a superlative daily chronology of Tolkien’s lifestyles, providing the main targeted biographical list to be had. The J. R. R. Tolkien spouse and consultant is a accomplished guide to at least one of the preferred authors of the 20th century.