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 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 yr prior to 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 20 th century. within the shadow of metropolitan literary tradition, rural writing can appear to attempt for a myth 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 relating the trajectory of English cultural lifestyles throughout the 20th century.

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

Finds the notable 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 middle of the Odyssey and the myth works of J. R. R. Tolkien • Examines Odysseus’s encounters with plant divinities, altered cognizance, animal shapeshifting, and sacred topography--all recommendations important to shamanism • finds how the Odyssey emerged accurately on the rupture among glossy and primal cognizance 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 significant other to Tolkien’s existence and works ever released. This quantity incorporates a superlative daily chronology of Tolkien’s lifestyles, proposing the main specified biographical checklist on hand. The J. R. R. Tolkien spouse and consultant is a entire guide to at least one of the preferred authors of the 20th century.