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Author : Carol L. Beran
Publisher : Salem Press
Page : 0 pages
File Size : 53,9 Mb
Release : 2014
Category : Canada
ISBN : 1619254158
Presents a variety of essays on the themes of Canadian fiction.
Author : Herb Wyile
Publisher : McGill-Queen's Press - MQUP
Page : 360 pages
File Size : 40,5 Mb
Release : 2002-02-18
Category : Literary Criticism
ISBN : 9780773569898
Herb Wyile provides a comparative analysis of the historical concerns and textual strategies of twenty novels published since the appearance of Rudy Wiebe's groundbreaking The Temptations of Big Bear in 1973. Drawing on the work of theorists and critics such as Hayden White, Mikhail Bakhtin, Fredric Jameson, Linda Hutcheon, and Michel De Certeau, Speculative Fictions examines the nature of these novels' engagement with Canadian history, historiography, and the writing of historical fiction. In the 1970s and early 1980s, writers such as Wiebe, Joy Kogawa, and Timothy Findley set the stage for a predominantly postcolonial and postmodern interrogation of traditional conceptions of Canadian history, the writing of history and fiction, and the idea of nation. Through his comparative approach, Wyile emphasizes the ways in which this spirit has been sustained in more recent historical novels by Jane Urquhart, Guy Vanderhaeghe, Tom Wharton, Margaret Atwood, and others. He concludes that the writing of history in English-Canadian fiction over the last thirty years makes a substantial contribution to a revisioning of history and to a postcolonial renegotiation of Canada and Canadian society as we enter into a new century.
Author : David Lampe
Publisher : White Pine Press
Page : 430 pages
File Size : 41,7 Mb
Release : 1993
Category : Fiction
ISBN : 1877727288
Anthology of French and English speaking Canadian stories.
Author : C. Howells
Publisher : Springer
Page : 230 pages
File Size : 49,6 Mb
Release : 2003-08-22
Category : Literary Criticism
ISBN : 9781403973542
This book charts the significant changes in contemporary Canada's literary profile since the mid-1990s, within a context of the new national rhetoric of multiculturalism. By looking closely at a representative range of fictions in English by women from a variety of ethnocultural backgrounds, Howells examines the complexities embedded within Canadian identity. What does 'Refiguring Identities' mean for these writers, given their individual agendas and the multiple affiliation of any woman's identity construction? All these writers are engaged in rewriting history across generation, and Howells argues that woman's fiction negotiates new possibilities for cultural change, introducing more heterogeneous narratives of identity in multi-cultural Canada.
Author : Linda Hutcheon
Publisher : Oxford University Press, USA
Page : 256 pages
File Size : 48,5 Mb
Release : 1988
Category : Literary Criticism
ISBN : UOM:39015015367504
This book studies the work of some of Canada's most prominent fiction writers in the context of postmodernism. Hutcheon shows that in Canada, this cultural phenomenon has not only found particularly fertile ground on which to develop but has also taken a distinctive form. She examines contemporary cultural theory and the writings of Margaret Atwood, Clark Blaise, George Bowering, Leonard Cohen, Timothy Findley, Jack Hodgins, Robert Kroetsch, Michael Ondaatje, Chris Scott, Susan Swan, Audrey Thomas, Aritha van Herk, and others.
Author : Alex Good
Publisher : Biblioasis
Page : 156 pages
File Size : 55,7 Mb
Release : 2017-03-14
Category : Literary Criticism
ISBN : 9781771961202
Revolutions is the first book-length critical survey of twenty-first-century Canadian fiction, with in-depth essays examining subjects such as the Scotiabank Giller Prize, the effects of the digital revolution, and the dark legacy of what has come to be know as the Canadian literary establishment. Throughout, close reading is given to many contemporary authors, with particular attention paid to such central figures as Douglas Coupland and David Adams Richards. Alex Good explains and contextualizes this period in Canadian fiction for the general reader, providing a much-needed critical re-assessment of Canadian writing in the new millennium. By offering a contrary yet thoughtful position to that taken by our nation’s most prominent literary tastemakers, Good offers a vigorous commentary on the state of Canadian literature—where we are and how we got here.
Author : John Metcalf
Publisher : Methuen Publishing
Page : 280 pages
File Size : 43,9 Mb
Release : 1982
Category : Fiction
ISBN : UOM:39015001199739
Author : Neta Gordon
Publisher : Wilfrid Laurier Univ. Press
Page : 205 pages
File Size : 41,8 Mb
Release : 2014-03-25
Category : Literary Criticism
ISBN : 9781554589869
Catching the Torch examines contemporary novels and plays written about Canada's participation in World War I. Exploring such works as Jane Urquhart's The Underpainter and The Stone Carvers, Jack Hodgins's Broken Ground, Kevin Kerr's Unity (1918), Stephen Massicotte's Mary's Wedding, and Frances Itani's Deafening, the book considers how writers have dealt with the compelling myth that the Canadian nation was born in the trenches of the Great War. In contrast to British and European remembrances of WWI, which tend to regard it as a cataclysmic destroyer of innocence, or Australian myths that promote an ideal of outsize masculinity, physical bravery, and white superiority, contemporary Canadian texts conjure up notions of distinctively Canadian values: tolerance of ethnic difference, the ability to do one's duty without complaint or arrogance, and the inclination to show moral as well as physical courage. Paradoxically, Canadians are shown to decry the horrors of war while making use of its productive cultural effects. Through a close analysis of the way sacrifice, service, and the commemoration of war are represented in these literary works, Catching the Torch argues that iterations of a secure mythic notion of national identity, one that is articulated via the representation of straightforward civic and military participation, work to counter current anxieties about the stability of the nation-state, in particular anxieties about the failure of the ideal of a national "character."
Author : K. V. Dominic
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 269 pages
File Size : 50,5 Mb
Release : 2010
Category : Canadian literature
ISBN : OCLC:698581130
Author : John Moss
Publisher : Dundurn
Page : 212 pages
File Size : 40,6 Mb
Release : 1983-02
Category : Literary Collections
ISBN : 0920053041
A collection of essays about contemporary Canadian novels by Margaret Atwood, Robertson Davies, Margaret Laurence, Alice Munro, Mordechai Richler, Rudy Weibe, as edited by professor of English at the University of Ottawa John Moss.
Author : Gabriele Helms
Publisher : McGill-Queen's Press - MQUP
Page : 224 pages
File Size : 49,9 Mb
Release : 2003-09-22
Category : Literary Collections
ISBN : 9780773571297
Challenging Canada is the first book-length study to bring a Bakhtinian approach to bear on Canadian literature. Gabriele Helms develops a cultural narratology to argue that the contemporary Canadian novels in English considered in this book challenge dominant constructions of Canada from positions of difference and resistance, inscribing previously oppressed and silenced voices through dialogic relations. She makes Mikhail Bakhtin's concept of dialogism amenable to textual analysis and problematizes its ideological forces by emphasizing elements of struggle and conflict. Challenging Canada rejects dialogism as a normative liberal pluralism and understands the inequality between voices as historically and socially constructed.
Author : Makeda Silvera
Publisher : Sister Vision Press
Page : 476 pages
File Size : 52,7 Mb
Release : 1995
Category : Fiction
ISBN : UOM:39015058697726
A landmark in the literary works of women of color in Canada. This book confirms the growing stature of some emerging and outstanding scholars. Contributors examine themes of race, class, gender/sexuality, displacement and alienation.
Author : Matthias Dickert et al.
Publisher : GRIN Verlag
Page : 62 pages
File Size : 46,5 Mb
Release : 2013-11-06
Category : Literary Collections
ISBN : 9783656534778
Anthology from the year 2013 in the subject American Studies - Culture and Applied Geography, , language: English, abstract: Canada has only recently become a topic of literary interest in modern grammar schools in Hessen. It was thus logical that schools, teachers and students were confronted with a fairly unknown topic that belongs to what is referred too as English-speaking literature. Canadian literature is, strictly speaking, part of what is commonly considered to be ‘Literature of the Colonies‘, a term that sums up literature from Africa, Asia, Australia, Canada and New Zealand. Canada in this respect still holds a key position for European readers simply because of its historic links to England and France and its deep roots in native elements, all of which seem to have enriched its historical, cultural and literary variety. All three influences have contributed to the key term of present Canadian literature which seems to focus on the concept of survival and its manifold presentations in past and present day Canadian writing. It is thus not astonishing to spot this notion of survival in all types of writing, and detective stories, in general, also do not seem to be an exception. It is therefore natural for the reader to trace and find this notion in Louise Penny’s novels, too. Louise Penny herself is considered to be one, if not the most outstanding contemporary Canadian representative of this type of writing, and it was simply a question of time when she came into the focus of public attention. Books like Still Life (2005), Dead Cold (2006), The Cruellest Month (2007), The Murder Stone (2008), The Brutal Telling (2009), Bury Your Dead (2010), A Trick of the Light (2011) soon gained her the reputation of a fine writer. Most of her novels, however, include another aspect central for modern language learning in the socalled Oberstufe. The talk here is about what is generally called ‘Intercultural Teaching and Learning‘ because the critical reader working here gains a lot of historical, cultural and social insight into Canada and the Canadian soul. It is at this crossroad where Penny steps in. With the elegance of a Shakespearian pen of the 21st century she presents various characters and thus teachers and students alike can learn a lot about the different dimensions – individual and collective – of the Canadian psyche. This results in knowledge, feeling and respect for Canada and Canadian mentality which are conveyed in a convincing and authentic way.
Author : Linda Hutcheon
Publisher : OUP Canada
Page : 0 pages
File Size : 41,9 Mb
Release : 2012-12-20
Category : Literary Criticism
ISBN : 0199001790
The Canadian Postmodern examines the theory and practice of postmodernism as seen through both contemporary cultural theory and the writings of Audrey Thomas, Michael Ondaatje, Robert Kroetsch, Margaret Atwood, Timothy Findley, Jack Hodgins, Aritha van Herk, Leonard Cohen, Susan Swan, Clark Blaise, George Bowering, and others.
Author : Philip Stratford
Publisher : EWC Press
Page : 126 pages
File Size : 55,8 Mb
Release : 1986
Category : Literary Criticism
ISBN : UOM:39015049210936