Meet Me on the Barricades (Canadian Literature Collection)

Meet Me at the Barricades is Harrison’s so much experimental paintings. the radical contains a sequence of myth 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 earlier than James Thurber’s better-known brief tale, “The mystery lifetime of Walter Mitty”).

Modernity and the English Rural Novel

This e-book examines the endurance 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 old 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 existence throughout the 20th century.

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

Unearths the outstanding parallels among indigenous cultures of the Americas and the traditional Homeric international in addition to Tolkien’s center Earth • Explores the shamanic use of therapeutic songs, psychoactive crops, and imaginative and prescient quests on the center of the Odyssey and the delusion works of J. R. R. Tolkien • Examines Odysseus’s encounters with plant divinities, altered awareness, animal shapeshifting, and sacred topography--all suggestions important to shamanism • unearths how the Odyssey emerged accurately on the rupture among sleek and primal attention Indigenous, shamanic methods of therapeutic and prophecy aren't overseas to the West.

The J. R. R. Tolkien Companion and Guide: Volume 3: Reader’s Guide PART 2

Quantity 2 of the main entire in-depth spouse to Tolkien’s lifestyles and works ever released. This quantity encompasses a superlative daily chronology of Tolkien’s lifestyles, providing the main distinct biographical checklist to be had. The J. R. R. Tolkien significant other and advisor is a accomplished guide to 1 of the preferred authors of the 20 th century.