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

Modernity and the English Rural Novel

This ebook 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 attempt 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 concerning the trajectory of English cultural existence in the course of 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 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 realization, animal shapeshifting, and sacred topography--all techniques very important to shamanism • unearths how the Odyssey emerged accurately on the rupture among smooth and primal cognizance Indigenous, shamanic methods of therapeutic and prophecy aren't international 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 significant other to Tolkien’s existence and works ever released. This quantity incorporates a superlative daily chronology of Tolkien’s lifestyles, providing the main precise biographical list to be had. The J. R. R. Tolkien spouse and advisor is a entire instruction manual to 1 of the most well-liked authors of the 20th century.