A History of Canadian LiteratureMacmillan Education, 1989 - 380 páginas This comprehensive survey begins with an account of the myths of the New World, describing the fascinating background against which to read the emerging English and French language Literatures of Canada. An examination of the early literature takes full account of explorers' journals, the Jesuit Relations and settlement and captivity narratives, and the works of writers from 1880 to the present day such as Kirkby, Frechette, F.R. Scott, Tremblay, Munro and Atwood are fully discussed. Account is taken of historical events such as Confederation, the Canada First Movement and the Imperial Federation Movement, as well as the main critical movements of each period. |
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... critical attention away from romantic conventions to the exigencies of modern society and free form . In the work of Frank Scott , the connection between literature and society was most evident . The sharpest satirist of the Montreal ...
... critical attention away from romantic conventions to the exigencies of modern society and free form . In the work of Frank Scott , the connection between literature and society was most evident . The sharpest satirist of the Montreal ...
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... critical and creative principles come together in metatextual narrative . Editor of Les stratégies du réel / The ... critical ' erasure ' of women in the systems of language . Picture Theory ( 1982 ) develops these principles in both ...
... critical and creative principles come together in metatextual narrative . Editor of Les stratégies du réel / The ... critical ' erasure ' of women in the systems of language . Picture Theory ( 1982 ) develops these principles in both ...
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... critical comment on the limitations of ' recorded history ' ; it depicts a woman's picnic on the Acropolis at the time of Plato's Symposium ( but pointedly neglected by it ) , and examines the articulate lives that , taken together ...
... critical comment on the limitations of ' recorded history ' ; it depicts a woman's picnic on the Acropolis at the time of Plato's Symposium ( but pointedly neglected by it ) , and examines the articulate lives that , taken together ...
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early literature | 1 |
literature to 1867 | 24 |
literature to 1922 | 81 |
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