Meet Me on the Barricades (Canadian Literature Collection)

Meet Me at the Barricades is Harrison’s so much experimental paintings. the unconventional incorporates a sequence of delusion 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 booklet 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 fable model of britain without compelling social or old relevance. Dominic Head argues that the obvious 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 middle of the Odyssey and the delusion works of J. R. R. Tolkien • Examines Odysseus’s encounters with plant divinities, altered cognizance, animal shapeshifting, and sacred topography--all suggestions very important to shamanism • unearths 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 complete in-depth better half to Tolkien’s existence and works ever released. This quantity incorporates a superlative daily chronology of Tolkien’s lifestyles, providing the main specific biographical checklist to be had. The J. R. R. Tolkien spouse and consultant is a accomplished guide to 1 of the preferred authors of the 20th century.