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 was once 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 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 attempt 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 in the course of the 20th century.

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

Finds the awesome 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 vegetation, and imaginative and prescient quests on the center of the Odyssey and the myth works of J. R. R. Tolkien • Examines Odysseus’s encounters with plant divinities, altered realization, animal shapeshifting, and sacred topography--all ideas very important to shamanism • unearths how the Odyssey emerged accurately on the rupture among glossy and primal attention 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 accomplished in-depth better half to Tolkien’s lifestyles and works ever released. This quantity incorporates a superlative daily chronology of Tolkien’s existence, offering the main targeted biographical checklist on hand. The J. R. R. Tolkien better half and advisor is a entire guide to at least one of the most well-liked authors of the 20 th century.