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Author : Jacques Ferron
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 101 pages
File Size : 49,5 Mb
Release : 1972
Category : Canada
ISBN : 0887844197
Author : Jacques Ferron
Publisher : National Geographic Books
Page : 0 pages
File Size : 44,6 Mb
Release : 2010-08-31
Category : Fiction
ISBN : 9780771094040
New to the NCL! Forty-one sparkling classics of Quebec fiction In these fantastic tall tales a bull turns into a lawyer, a lonely Alberta cow's ghost longs for Quebec, and Ulysses comes back to Ithaca Corner, Ontario. Jacques Ferron writes metaphysical fables, political satire, portraits of men and women in all walks of life, and wry comedies, with great originality and a profound sympathy for the human condition. These forty-one sparkling classics are among the most celebrated works in modern Quebec literature. They appear in this original New Canadian Library collection in a specially revised and expanded translation by Betty Bednarski.
Author : Sandra L. Beckett
Publisher : Wayne State University Press
Page : 418 pages
File Size : 50,9 Mb
Release : 2013-11-01
Category : Social Science
ISBN : 9780814339732
Across various time periods, audiences, aesthetics, and cultural landscapes, Little Red Riding Hood is a universal icon, and her story is one of the world's most retold tales. In Revisioning Red Riding Hood Around the World: An Anthology of International Retellings, Sandra L. Beckett presents over fifty notable modern retellings, only two of which have appeared previously in English. The tales include works published in twenty-four countries and sixteen languages, in texts that span more than a century, but with the majority written in the last fifty years. They include retellings for children, adolescents, and adults, as well as crossover works intended for an audience of all ages. The tales in this volume progress from works that recast the story of Little Red Riding Hood from traditional perspectives through more playful versions to more unconventional approaches. Seven sections are arranged thematically: Cautionary Tales for Modern Riding Hoods, Contemporary Riding Hoods Come of Age, Playing with the Story of Red Riding Hood and the Wolf, Rehabilitating the Wolf, The Wolf's Story, The Wolf Within, and Running with the Wolves. Beckett provides an interpretative introduction to each text and insightful information on its author and/or illustrator. A variety of genres are represented, including fairy tale, short story, novella, novel, poetry, illustrated books, and picture books. More than 90 illustrations, both color plates and black-and-white images, reveal further narrative layers of meaning. The number and diversity of retellings in Revisioning Red Riding Hood demonstrate the tale's remarkable versatility and its exceptional status in the collective unconscious and in literary culture, even beyond the confines of the Western world. This unique anthology contributes to cross-cultural exchange and facilitates comparative study of the tale for readers interested in fairy-tale studies, cultural studies, and literary history.
Author : Beverly J. Rasporich
Publisher : John Benjamins Publishing Company
Page : 300 pages
File Size : 42,7 Mb
Release : 2015-09-15
Category : Language Arts & Disciplines
ISBN : 9789027268174
Made-in-Canada-Humour is an interdisciplinary survey and analysis of Canadian humour and humorists in the nineteenth and twentieth centuries. The book focuses on a variety of genres. It includes celebrated Canadian writers and poets with ironic and satiric perspectives; oral storytellers of tall tales in the country and the city; newspaper print humorists; representative national and regional cartoonists; and comedians of stage, radio and television. The humour gives voice to Canadian values and experiences, and consequently, techniques and styles of humour particular to the country. While a persistent comic theme has been joking at the expense of the United States, both countries have influenced one another’s humour. Canada’s unique humorous tradition also reflects its emergence from a colonial country to a postcolonial and postmodern nation with contemporary humour that addresses gender and racial issues.
Author : Sheri Dion
Publisher : Susquehanna University Press
Page : 317 pages
File Size : 55,8 Mb
Release : 2012-09
Category : Language Arts & Disciplines
ISBN : 9781575911861
Author : David Ketterer
Publisher : Indiana University Press
Page : 236 pages
File Size : 45,5 Mb
Release : 1992
Category : Fiction
ISBN : 0253331226
Author : Robert Steiner
Publisher : iUniverse
Page : 236 pages
File Size : 44,6 Mb
Release : 2002-09
Category : Fiction
ISBN : 9780595244188
This book is a collection of short stories, which span a range from realistic fiction to science fiction and fantasy. It includes action stories, stories set in the future and supernatural stories. Although some of the stories are influenced by actual events, all characters are entirely fictional, as are the details of events. The only exception is "The Pilot's Tale ", which is a true story involving the author himself in a dangerous flight situation.
Author : Allan Weiss
Publisher : Routledge
Page : 198 pages
File Size : 42,8 Mb
Release : 2020-12-29
Category : Literary Criticism
ISBN : 9781000333725
This study introduces the history, themes, and critical responses to Canadian fantastic literature. Taking a chronological approach, this volume covers the main periods of Canadian science fiction and fantasy from the early nineteenth century to the first decades of the twenty-first century. The book examines both the texts and the contexts of Canadian writing in the fantastic, analyzing themes and techniques in novels and short stories, and looking at both national and international contexts of the literature’s history. This introduction will offer a coherent narrative of Canadian fantastic literature through analysis of the major texts and authors in the field and through relating the authors’ work to the world around them.
Author : Mrs. Margaret Oliphant
Publisher : WILLIAM BLACKWOOD AND SONS
Page : 748 pages
File Size : 50,8 Mb
Release : 2024-06-28
Category : Electronic
ISBN : 8210379456XXX
A Widow's Tale and Other Stories These things were being turned over in her mind by Miss Bampton, while she sat looking out upon the lawn where everything looked so fresh and cool under the trees. She was busy with her usual knitting, but this did not in any way interfere with the acuteness of her senses, or the course of her thoughts. Though May and she were spoken of as if on the same level, as the Miss Bamptons, this lady was twenty years older than her sister, and had discharged for half of that time the functions of mother to that heedless little girl. May had made Julia old, indeed, when she had no right to be considered old. When the mother died she had been a handsome quiet young woman, thirty indeed, which is considered, though quite falsely, an unromantic age yet quite capable of being taken for twenty-eight, or even twenty-five, and with admirers and prospects of her own. After her mourning was over she had become Miss Bampton, the feminine head of the house, managing everything, receiving the few guests her father cared to see, who were almost all contemporaries of his own, as if she were as old as any of them—and had moved up to a totally different level of life. Such a transformation is not unusual in a widower's house. Miss Bampton took the position of her father's wife rather than of his daughter, and no one thought it strange. If she sacrificed any feelings of her own in doing so, no one found it out. She was a mother to May; she had found her position, it seemed, taken possession of her place in the world, at the head of a house which was her own house, though it was not her husband's but her father's. It was generally supposed that the position suited her admirably, and that she had never wished for any other: which indeed I agree was very probably the case, though in such matters no one can ever be confident. It was thus that she happened to be so absorbed in May, so watchful of this (she thought) undesirable interposition of Mr Fitzroy, of the partial withdrawal of Bertie Harcourt, and of many things of equal, or rather equally little, moment to the general world.
Author : Matt Cohen
Publisher : House of Anansi
Page : 177 pages
File Size : 47,5 Mb
Release : 2020-03-03
Category : Fiction
ISBN : 9781487007881
First published in 1972, Columbus and the Fat Lady introduced readers to Governor General’s Literary Award–winning author Matt Cohen’s skewed and hilarious worldview. By turns funny, surreal, wistful, savagely satirical, and brilliantly inventive, the stories in this collection intrigue and surprise the reader with their unexpected language and plots. He conjures up images that are both absurd and perceptive. From Sir Galahad as a schoolteacher to Christopher Columbus as a carnival attraction, these stories feature the improbable with strength and virtuosity. This collection is a foray into the jungles of life on this planet and the tangled but fascinating interiors of the human head.
Author : Margaret Oliphant
Publisher : DigiCat
Page : 457 pages
File Size : 44,9 Mb
Release : 2022-08-01
Category : Fiction
ISBN : EAN:8596547115649
DigiCat Publishing presents to you this special edition of "A Widow's Tale and other stories" by Margaret Oliphant. DigiCat Publishing considers every written word to be a legacy of humankind. Every DigiCat book has been carefully reproduced for republishing in a new modern format. The books are available in print, as well as ebooks. DigiCat hopes you will treat this work with the acknowledgment and passion it deserves as a classic of world literature.
Author : Coquelle Thompson,Elizabeth Derr Jacobs
Publisher : U of Nebraska Press
Page : 329 pages
File Size : 46,6 Mb
Release : 2007-01-01
Category : Social Science
ISBN : 9780803206229
Despite the political instability characterizing twentieth-century Taiwan, the value of baseball in the lives of Taiwanese has been a constant since the game was introduced in 1895. The game first gained popularity on the island under the Japanese occupation, and that popularity continued after World War II despite the withdrawal of the Japanese and an official lack of support from the new state power, the Chinese Nationalist Party.
Author : Henry William Herbert
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 356 pages
File Size : 55,5 Mb
Release : 1844
Category : Electronic
ISBN : BL:A0024070667
Author : Reingard M. Nischik
Publisher : Camden House
Page : 442 pages
File Size : 42,6 Mb
Release : 2007
Category : Literary Criticism
ISBN : 1571131272
Beginning in the 1890s, reaching its first full realization by modernist writers in the 1920s, and brought to its heyday during the Canadian Renaissance starting in the 1960s, the short story has become Canada's flagship genre. It continues to attract the country's most accomplished and innovative writers today, among them Margaret Atwood, Mavis Gallant, Alice Munro, Carol Shields, and many others. Yet in contrast to the stature and popularity of the genre and the writers who partake in it, surprisingly little literary criticism and theory has been devoted to the Canadian short story. This collection redresses that imbalance by providing the first collection of critical interpretations of a range of thirty well-known and often-anthologized Canadian short stories from the genre's beginnings through the twentieth century. A historical survey of the genre introduces the volume and a timeline comparing the genre's development in Canada, the US, and Great Britain via representative examples completes it. The collection is geared both to specialists in and to students of Canadian literature. For the latter it is of particular benefit that the volume provides not only a collection of interpretations, but a comprehensive introduction to the history of the Canadian short story. Reingard M. Nischik is professor and chair of American Literature at the University of Constance, Germany.
Author : Anonim
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 354 pages
File Size : 46,7 Mb
Release : 1844
Category : Electronic
ISBN : BL:A0024080813
