Author : Eva-Marie Kröller
Publisher : Cambridge University Press
Page : 371 pages
File Size : 41,50 MB
Release : 2017-06-08
Category : Literary Criticism
ISBN : 1107159628
A fully revised second edition of this multi-author account of Canadian literature, from Aboriginal writing to Margaret Atwood.
Author : Eva-Marie Kröller
Publisher : Cambridge University Press
Page : 328 pages
File Size : 25,1 MB
Release : 2004-02-05
Category : Literary Criticism
ISBN : 9780521891318
This book offers a comprehensive and engaging introduction to major writers, genres and topics in Canadian literature. Contributors pay attention to the social, political and economic developments that have informed literary events. Broad surveys of fiction, drama, and poetry are complemented by chapters on Aboriginal writing, francophone writing, autobiography, literary criticism, writing by women, and the emergence of urban writing in a country traditionally defined by its regions. Also discussed are genres that have a special place in Canadian literature, such as nature-writing, exploration- and travel-writing, and short fiction.
Author : Coral Ann Howells
Publisher : Cambridge University Press
Page : 180 pages
File Size : 27,2 MB
Release : 2006-03-30
Category : Literary Criticism
ISBN : 1139827316
Margaret Atwood's international celebrity has given a new visibility to Canadian literature in English. This Companion provides a comprehensive critical account of Atwood's writing across the wide range of genres within which she has worked for the past forty years, while paying attention to her Canadian cultural context and the multiple dimensions of her celebrity. The main concern is with Atwood the writer, but there is also Atwood the media star and public performer, cultural critic, environmentalist and human rights spokeswoman, social and political satirist, and mythmaker. This immensely varied profile is addressed in a series of chapters which cover biographical, textual, and contextual issues. The Introduction contains an analysis of dominant trends in Atwood criticism since the 1970s, while the essays by twelve leading international Atwood critics represent the wide range of different perspectives in current Atwood scholarship.
Author : Eugene Benson
Publisher :
Page : 1199 pages
File Size : 45,80 MB
Release : 1997
Category : Literary Criticism
ISBN : 9780195411676
Contains over 1,100 entries covering mainly English-Canadian literature, and including new author and title entries, as well as extensive genre surveys.
Author : David Staines
Publisher : Cambridge University Press
Page : pages
File Size : 13,28 MB
Release : 2016-03-08
Category : Literary Criticism
ISBN : 1316558703
This Companion is a thorough introduction to the writings of the Nobel Prize winner Alice Munro. Uniting the talents of distinguished creative writers and noted academics, David Staines has put together a comprehensive, exploratory account of Munro's biography, her position as a feminist, her evocation of life in small-town Ontario, her non-fictional writings as well as her short stories, and her artistic achievement. Considering a wide range of topics – including Munro's style, life writing, her personal development, and her use of Greek myths, Celtic ballads, Norse sagas, and popular songs – this volume will appeal to keen readers of Munro's fiction as well as students and scholars of literature and Canadian and gender studies.
Author : David Glover
Publisher : Cambridge University Press
Page : 245 pages
File Size : 10,19 MB
Release : 2012-04-05
Category : Literary Criticism
ISBN : 0521513375
An overview of popular literature from the early nineteenth century to the present day from a historical and comparative perspective.
Author : Coral Ann Howells
Publisher : Cambridge University Press
Page : 0 pages
File Size : 35,29 MB
Release : 2013-12-05
Category : Literary Criticism
ISBN : 9781107646193
From Aboriginal writing to Margaret Atwood, this is a complete English-language history of Canadian writing in English and French from its beginnings. The multi-authored volume pays special attention to works from the 1960s and after, to multicultural and Indigenous writing, popular literature, and the interaction of anglophone and francophone cultures throughout Canadian history. Established genres such as fiction, drama and poetry are discussed alongside forms of writing which have traditionally received less attention, such as the essay, nature-writing, life-writing, journalism, and comics, and also writing in which the conventional separation between genres has broken down, such as the poetic novel. Written by an international team of distinguished scholars, the volume includes a separate, substantial section discussing major genres in French, as well as a detailed chronology of historical and literary/cultural events, and an extensive bibliography covering criticism in English and French.
Author : Edward Copeland
Publisher : Cambridge University Press
Page : 278 pages
File Size : 35,11 MB
Release : 1997-05
Category : Literary Criticism
ISBN : 9780521498678
A comprehensive guide to Austen's works in the contexts of her contemporary world and present-day criticism.
Author : Malcolm V. Jones
Publisher : Cambridge University Press
Page : 352 pages
File Size : 48,15 MB
Release : 1998-04-30
Category : Literary Criticism
ISBN : 9780521479097
Many Russian novels of the nineteenth and twentieth centuries have made a huge impact, not only inside the boundaries of their own country but across the western world. The Cambridge Companion to the Classic Russian Novel offers a thematic account of these novels, in fourteen newly-commissioned essays by prominent European and North American scholars. There are chapters on the city, the countryside, politics, satire, religion, psychology, philosophy; the romantic, realist and modernist traditions; and technique, gender and theory. In this context the work of Pushkin, Dostoevsky, Tolstoy, Turgenev, Bulgakov, Nabokov, Pasternak and Solzhenitsyn, among others, is described and discussed. There is a chronology and guide to further reading; all quotations are in English. This volume will be invaluable not only for students and scholars but for anyone interested in the Russian novel.
Author : Timothy Unwin
Publisher : Cambridge University Press
Page : 312 pages
File Size : 18,61 MB
Release : 1997-10-28
Category : Literary Collections
ISBN : 9780521499149
This volume offers a unique and valuable insight into the novel in French over the past two centuries. In a series of essays, acknowledged experts discuss a variety of topics including nineteenth-century realism, women and fiction, popular fiction, experiment and innovation, war and the Holocaust, the Francophone novel, and postmodern fiction. They offer a challenging reassessment of major figures, while deliberately reading traditional views of literary history against the grain. Theoretical discussion is combined with close reading of texts and exploration of context, comparison with other genres and other literatures, and reference to novels from earlier periods. This companionable introduction includes a chronology and guide to further reading. From it emerges a strong sense of the vitality and energy of the modern French novel, and of the debates surrounding it.
