Meet Me on the Barricades (Canadian Literature Collection)

Meet Me at the Barricades is Harrison’s such a lot experimental paintings. the unconventional incorporates 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 12 months sooner 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 myth 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 interact with it, and that the real writers during this culture have had an important relating the trajectory of English cultural lifestyles in the course of the 20th century.

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

Finds the amazing 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 crops, and imaginative and prescient quests on the middle of the Odyssey and the fable works of J. R. R. Tolkien • Examines Odysseus’s encounters with plant divinities, altered awareness, animal shapeshifting, and sacred topography--all recommendations very important to shamanism • unearths how the Odyssey emerged accurately on the rupture among smooth and primal awareness Indigenous, shamanic methods of therapeutic and prophecy are usually 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 accomplished in-depth better half to Tolkien’s existence and works ever released. This quantity features a superlative daily chronology of Tolkien’s lifestyles, providing the main exact biographical checklist to be had. The J. R. R. Tolkien spouse and advisor is a complete instruction manual to 1 of the preferred authors of the 20th century.