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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... past by controlling who may read and who may hear . Figures from history thus turn severally into occasions for examining the political possibilities - and temptations of language . - When Margaret Laurence's character Morag Gunn in The ...
... past by controlling who may read and who may hear . Figures from history thus turn severally into occasions for examining the political possibilities - and temptations of language . - When Margaret Laurence's character Morag Gunn in The ...
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... past , a prairie town ? The answer to the last question lies in the form the language takes – in an image of history ( temporary town , momentarily on the landscape , a cycle repeated many times ) that is as kinesthetic as it is visual ...
... past , a prairie town ? The answer to the last question lies in the form the language takes – in an image of history ( temporary town , momentarily on the landscape , a cycle repeated many times ) that is as kinesthetic as it is visual ...
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... past anew and read the fragmented present through terms appropriate to it . - In Timothy Findley's fiction , reading the past ( and the present through the past ) results in other kinds of textual structure . The Wars ( 1977 ) Findley's ...
... past anew and read the fragmented present through terms appropriate to it . - In Timothy Findley's fiction , reading the past ( and the present through the past ) results in other kinds of textual structure . The Wars ( 1977 ) Findley's ...
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literature to 1922 | 81 |
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