Meet Me on the Barricades (Canadian Literature Collection)

Meet Me at the Barricades is Harrison’s so much experimental paintings. the unconventional features 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 ahead of 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 20th century. within the shadow of metropolitan literary tradition, rural writing can appear to attempt for a myth model of britain with out compelling social or ancient relevance. Dominic Head argues that the plain 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 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 notable parallels among indigenous cultures of the Americas and the traditional Homeric global in addition to Tolkien’s center Earth • Explores the shamanic use of therapeutic songs, psychoactive vegetation, and imaginative and prescient quests on the center of the Odyssey and the fable works of J. R. R. Tolkien • Examines Odysseus’s encounters with plant divinities, altered recognition, animal shapeshifting, and sacred topography--all recommendations important to shamanism • finds how the Odyssey emerged accurately on the rupture among sleek and primal cognizance Indigenous, shamanic methods of therapeutic and prophecy should not international 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 significant other to Tolkien’s existence and works ever released. This quantity features a superlative daily chronology of Tolkien’s lifestyles, offering the main specified biographical checklist on hand. The J. R. R. Tolkien better half and consultant is a accomplished guide to 1 of the preferred authors of the 20th century.