Author : John Moss
Publisher : Dundurn
Page : 212 pages
File Size : 31,80 MB
Release : 1983-02
Category : Literary Collections
ISBN : 9780920053041
A collection of essays about contemporary Canadian novels by Margaret Atwood, Robertson Davies, Margaret Laurence, Alice Munro, Mordechai Richler, Rudy Weibe, as edited by professor of English at the University of Ottawa John Moss.
Author : Harry J. Boyle
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Release : 1973
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Author : Janette Oke
Publisher : Arrowood Press
Page : 660 pages
File Size : 29,59 MB
Release : 1995
Category : Fiction
ISBN : 9780884861126
This saga of life and love follows Elizabeth, a lovely young teacher from the east, who braves the Canadian frontier to teach in a one- room schoolhouse where she meets Wynn, A Royal Candian Mountie, who becomes her husband and partner.
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Author : George Woodcock
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Page : 337 pages
File Size : 46,30 MB
Release : 1975
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Author : Rosmarin Heidenreich
Publisher : Wilfrid Laurier Univ. Press
Page : 213 pages
File Size : 37,33 MB
Release : 2006-01-01
Category : Literary Criticism
ISBN : 1554587018
As a comparative study which includes the analysis of both English-Canadian and Quebec novels, this book provides an overview of the novel as it has developed in this country since the Second World War. Focusing on narratological rather than thematic elements, the book represents a systematic application of the insights and analytical tools of reader-reception theory, in particular the models proposed by Wolfgang Iser and Hans Robert Jauss. Placing the emphasis on the text and its effects rather than on the historical or psycho-sociological genesis of the text, the author invokes the models and paradigms of other literatures to establish a broader cultural context permitting the significance of a literature to emerge as a carrier of meaning in and beyond the culture that produces it. Tracing a critical path from Hugh MacLennan's hierarchic romance structures and Gabrielle Roy's social realism to the metafictions of Hubert Aquin and Timothy Findley, the author reveals that the novel's narratological features themselves are often closely linked with ideological positions.
Author : Margaret Atwood
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Page : 204 pages
File Size : 17,86 MB
Release : 1978
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Author : Irene Baird
Publisher : University of Ottawa Press
Page : 358 pages
File Size : 49,75 MB
Release : 2007-11-04
Category : Fiction
ISBN : 0776618059
A new critical edition of the acknowledged best Canadian novel of the 1930s. Irene Baird’s Waste Heritage is a groundbreaking work of Canadian fiction based on the dramatic and violent labour disputes that took place in British Columbia in 1938. The story follows the progress of two friends, Matt Striker, a 23-year-old from Saskatchewan, and his simple-minded companion Eddy, as they travel from Vancouver to Victoria following the occupation of the Vancouver Post Office. Like the unemployed masses that took siege of the Post Office, Matt and Eddy yearn for relief after years of economic depression. Empathetic and tragic, Waste Heritage has been praised as Canada’s Grapes of Wrath and the most important Canadian novel of the 1930s. A new critical apparatus surrounds Baird’s original text, informing the reader of the historical and literary contexts of the work, as well as providing exhaustive textual analysis.
Author : Hugh MacLennan
Publisher : McGill-Queen's Press - MQUP
Page : 375 pages
File Size : 41,2 MB
Release : 2018-06-01
Category : Fiction
ISBN : 0773553908
Winner of the Governor General’s Award for Fiction Canada Reads Selection (CBC), 2013 A landmark of nationalist fiction, Hugh MacLennan’s Two Solitudes is the story of two peoples within one nation, each with its own legend and ideas of what a nation should be. In his vivid portrayals of human drama in First World War–era Quebec, MacLennan focuses on two individuals whose love increases the prejudices that surround them until they discover that “love consists in this, that two solitudes protect, and touch and greet each other.” The novel centres around Paul Tallard and his struggles in reconciling the differences between the English identity of his love Heather Methuen and her family, and the French identity of his father. Against this backdrop the country is forming, the chasm between French and English communities growing deeper. Published in 1945, the novel popularized the use of “two solitudes” as referring to a perceived lack of communication between English- and French-speaking Canadians. Content note: This book contains racial slurs that readers may find offensive or upsetting.
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Page : 1128 pages
File Size : 31,30 MB
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