The Ethel Wilson Symposium

The Ethel Wilson Symposium PDF Author: Lorraine McMullen
Publisher: University of Ottawa Press
ISBN: 0776617109
Category : Literary Criticism
Languages : en
Pages : 163

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The Ethel Wilson Symposium

The Ethel Wilson Symposium PDF Author: Lorraine McMullen
Publisher: University of Ottawa Press
ISBN: 0776617109
Category : Literary Criticism
Languages : en
Pages : 163

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Ethel Wilson

Ethel Wilson PDF Author: David Stouck
Publisher: University of Toronto Press
ISBN: 9780802087416
Category : Biography & Autobiography
Languages : en
Pages : 408

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Ethel Wilson is one of Canada's most important writers. This biography draws on archival material and interviews to describe, in detail, her early life as an orphan in England and Vancouver and her long writer's apprenticeship, spanning from the publication of some children's stories in 1919 to the appearance of "Hetty Dorval" in 1947. 2003.

Ethel Wilson and Her Works

Ethel Wilson and Her Works PDF Author: Beverley Mitchell
Publisher:
ISBN:
Category : Literary Criticism
Languages : en
Pages : 66

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Context North America

Context North America PDF Author: Camille La Bossière
Publisher: University of Ottawa Press
ISBN: 0776615718
Category : Literary Criticism
Languages : en
Pages : 177

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Context North America is a comparative study of Canadian and American literary relations that emphasizes the cultural and institutional contexts in which Canadian literature is taught and read. This volume exemplifies the question of how the literatures of Canada might aptly be studied and contextualized in the days of heightened discontinuity and increasingly ambiguous borderlines both between and within the many narratives that make up North America.

Worlds of Wonder

Worlds of Wonder PDF Author: Camille R. La Bossière
Publisher: University of Ottawa Press
ISBN: 0776605704
Category : Fiction
Languages : en
Pages : 209

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Grade level: 10, 11, 12, i, s, t.

Home-work

Home-work PDF Author: Cynthia Conchita Sugars
Publisher: University of Ottawa Press
ISBN: 0776616099
Category : Education
Languages : en
Pages : 544

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Canadian literature, and specifically the teaching of Canadian literature, has emerged from a colonial duty to a nationalist enterprise and into the current territory of postcolonialism. From practical discussions related to specific texts, to more theoretical discussions about pedagogical practice regarding issues of nationalism and identity, Home-Work constitutes a major investigation and reassessment of the influence of postcolonial theory on Canadian literary pedagogy from some of the top scholars in the field.

An Independent Stance

An Independent Stance PDF Author: W. J. Keith
Publisher: The Porcupine's Quill
ISBN: 9780889841215
Category : Literary Criticism
Languages : en
Pages : 320

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Part One of this strongly worded, informed, and wide-ranging collection examines key issues for the future of Canadian criticism. Part Two offers new readings of important works by Grove, Wilson, MacLennan, Davies, Laurence, Hood, Wiebe, Hodgins, and Atwood. As W.J. Keith argues, `We still have a mission: to have our literature recognized as an essential reflection of our national life. This is what I mean by retrenchment and consolidation. Literature can survive without literary criticism but it cannot survive if it is unknown and unread. It is criticism's prime function at the present time to see that it is both known and read with that mature enjoyment which is a combination of emotional sensitivity and humane intelligence. As critics, scholars, editors, we shall not be fulfilling our responsibilities or justifying our existence if we attempt anything less.' Or as Keith modestly observes in his introduction to this collection, `If this book is of any interest, it will be because Canadian literature is an important subject. Literary commentators like myself are middle-men, and should be prepared to admit the fact. If this book succeeds in helping readers to appreciate the works of Canadian writers that I discuss, and to derive increased pleasure and insight from them, it will have served its purpose. I can see no other justification for it -- or for any other work of criticism.'

At the Speed of Light There is Only Illumination

At the Speed of Light There is Only Illumination PDF Author: John Moss
Publisher: University of Ottawa Press
ISBN: 0776618679
Category : Literary Criticism
Languages : en
Pages : 268

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At the Speed of Light There is Only Illumination collects a dozen re-evaluative essays on Marshall McLuhan and his critical and theoretical legacy; from intellectual adventurer creating a complex architecture of ideas to cultural icon standing in line in Woody Allen’s Annie Hall. Given McLuhan’s prominent status in many academic disciplines, the contributors reflect a multi-disciplinary background. John Moss and Linda Morra chose the essays from a gathering of McLuhan’s academic devotees. The contribution – from “McLuhan as Medium” and “McLuhan in Space” to “What McLuhan Got Wrong” and “Trouble in the Global Village” – to provide a kaleidoscope of new views. As Moss writes of the collected essays: “Some are big and some are small, some exegetic and some confessional, some stand as major statements and others are sidelong glances; some resonate with the concerns of public discourse and others are private or privileged or impious and provocative. Each consists of many parts, each a design on its own. They speak to each other...they may have come together as one version of what happened.”

The Canadian Short Story

The Canadian Short Story PDF Author: Reingard M. Nischik
Publisher: Camden House
ISBN: 9781571131270
Category : Literary Criticism
Languages : en
Pages : 442

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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.

The Canadian Modernists Meet

The Canadian Modernists Meet PDF Author: Dean Irvine
Publisher: University of Ottawa Press
ISBN: 0776618644
Category : Literary Criticism
Languages : en
Pages : 384

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The Canadian Modernists Meet is a collection of new critical essays on major and rediscovered Canadian writers of the early to mid-twentieth century. F.R. Scott's well-known poem 'The Canadian Authors Meet' sets the theme for the volume: a revisiting of English Canada's formative movements in modernist poetry, fiction, and drama. As did Scott's poem, Dean Irvine's collection raises questions - about modernism and antimodernism, nationalism and antinationalism, gender and class, originality and influence - that remain central to contemporary research on early to mid-twentieth-century English Canadian literature. The Canadian Modernists Meetis the first collection of its kind: a gathering of texts by literary critics, textual editors, biographers, literary historians, and art historians whose collective research contributes to the study of modernism in Canada. The collection stages a major reassessment of the origins and development of modernist literature in Canada, its relationship to international modernist literature, its regional variations, its gender and class inflections, and its connections to visual art, architecture, and film. It presents a range of scholarly perspectives, drawing upon the multidisciplinarity that characterizes the international field of modernist studies.