Meet Me on the Barricades (Canadian Literature Collection)

Meet Me at the Barricades is Harrison’s so much 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 yr sooner than 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 try for a myth model of britain without compelling social or old 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 existence in the course of the 20th century.

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

Finds the awesome 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 delusion works of J. R. R. Tolkien • Examines Odysseus’s encounters with plant divinities, altered cognizance, animal shapeshifting, and sacred topography--all strategies important to shamanism • finds how the Odyssey emerged accurately on the rupture among sleek 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 complete in-depth spouse to Tolkien’s lifestyles and works ever released. This quantity incorporates a superlative daily chronology of Tolkien’s lifestyles, providing the main precise biographical checklist on hand. The J. R. R. Tolkien significant other and consultant is a accomplished instruction manual to 1 of the most well-liked authors of the 20 th century.