Meet Me on the Barricades (Canadian Literature Collection)

Meet Me at the Barricades is Harrison’s such a lot experimental paintings. the radical incorporates 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 20 th century. within the shadow of metropolitan literary tradition, rural writing can appear to attempt for a delusion model of britain with out compelling social or ancient relevance. Dominic Head argues that the obvious 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 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 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 center of the Odyssey and the myth works of J. R. R. Tolkien • Examines Odysseus’s encounters with plant divinities, altered awareness, animal shapeshifting, and sacred topography--all thoughts very important to shamanism • finds how the Odyssey emerged accurately on the rupture among smooth and primal realization Indigenous, shamanic methods of therapeutic and prophecy aren't overseas to the West.

The J. R. R. Tolkien Companion and Guide: Volume 3: Reader’s Guide PART 2

Quantity 2 of the main finished in-depth significant other to Tolkien’s lifestyles and works ever released. This quantity features a superlative daily chronology of Tolkien’s existence, offering the main certain biographical checklist on hand. The J. R. R. Tolkien significant other and advisor is a accomplished guide to 1 of the preferred authors of the 20th century.