Meet Me on the Barricades (Canadian Literature Collection)

Meet Me at the Barricades is Harrison’s such a lot experimental paintings. the unconventional contains 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 ebook examines the patience 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 delusion model of britain with out 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 touching on the trajectory of English cultural lifestyles in the course of the 20th century.

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

Unearths the extraordinary 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 middle 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 ideas important to shamanism • finds how the Odyssey emerged accurately on the rupture among smooth and primal recognition 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 entire in-depth better half to Tolkien’s lifestyles and works ever released. This quantity contains a superlative daily chronology of Tolkien’s lifestyles, proposing the main particular biographical checklist on hand. The J. R. R. Tolkien better half and consultant is a complete instruction manual to at least one of the preferred authors of the 20th century.