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 myth 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 booklet 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 delusion model of britain without compelling social or ancient 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 touching on the trajectory of English cultural lifestyles during the 20th century.

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

Unearths the awesome 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 crops, 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 attention, animal shapeshifting, and sacred topography--all recommendations important to shamanism • finds how the Odyssey emerged accurately on the rupture among glossy and primal recognition 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 lifestyles and works ever released. This quantity contains a superlative daily chronology of Tolkien’s existence, featuring the main distinctive biographical checklist to be had. The J. R. R. Tolkien spouse and consultant is a accomplished instruction manual to at least one of the preferred authors of the 20th century.