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 12 months ahead of 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 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 pertaining to the trajectory of English cultural lifestyles throughout the 20th century.

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

Unearths the amazing 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 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 recommendations very important to shamanism • unearths how the Odyssey emerged accurately on the rupture among smooth and primal realization 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 finished in-depth better half to Tolkien’s lifestyles and works ever released. This quantity features a superlative daily chronology of Tolkien’s lifestyles, proposing the main exact biographical list on hand. The J. R. R. Tolkien better half and consultant is a finished guide to at least one of the preferred authors of the 20 th century.