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Showing 1 to 15 of 15 for “"Literature--Canadian (English)"”.
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L'aveugle au miroir deformant: Reflexions sur le(s) regard(s) dans l'oeuvre d'Andre Langevin. (French text);
Les personnages de Langevin ont tous ceci en commun qu'ils s'evertuent a decouvrir une direction a leur vie, incapables qu'ils sont de la saisir entiere, d'un coup d'oeil global. A leur insu, ils se trouvent au bord d'un abi me dans lequel il leur sera difficile de ne pas tomber. Leur quete aboutit …
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Strategies of self-disclosure in the first-person narratives of Gabrielle Roy
"All of Gabrielle Roy's first person narratives exhibit evidence of a quest to understand the self. These narratives demonstrate both an evolution in the textual construction of the self portrait and a consistency of perspective with regard to textual self-disclosure. This can be explained by the …
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Symbolon: The Poetry of Anne Carson
This study examines Anne Carson’s use and abuse of the lyric form, elucidating how Carson reinvigorates the lyric poem with the power of the sublime, and theorizing the relationship between poetry and knowledge. Through three critical and historical inflections, “Symbolon: The Poetry of Anne …
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The evolution of the hero: A comparative study of the novel in Canada
Abstract not available.
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The Portmanteau Papers
The Portmanteau Papers is a creative exploration, in novel form, of the social environments, narrative structures, and language that attend the so-called rise of the novel of the eighteenth century. This long-form fiction begins with the prints of William Hogarth, which it investigates as a visual …
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"Archetypal dimensions of the narrative je in Andre Langevin's ""Poussiere sur la ville"" and Hubert Aquin's ""Prochain épisode"""
This study joins concerns of Jungian criticism and narratology as applied to the identification and interpretation of archetypes autodiegetic narratives. Two 20th century quebecois novels are analyzed--Andre Langevin's Poussiere sur la ville, a linear readerly narrative, and Hubert Aquin's Prochain …
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Images of happiness in the novels of Jacques Godbout
Item marked as restricted to the 'UIUC Users [automated]' Group (id=2) by Howard Ding (hding2@illinois.edu) on 2011-05-07T14:41:39Z Item is restricted indefinitely.
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The postexotic Arab: Orientalist dystopias in contemporary postcolonial fiction
This dissertation draws on modern theories of the exotic in order to critique racialized, consumer-oriented representations of Arabs. Such representations often betray an exoticist and neo-colonial discursive pattern in which things Arab figure essentially as an index for a threateningly attractive …
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A Generic Approach To Confederation Romanticism
… but never thoroughly-examined influence of the English Romantics on these poets, this dissertation is organized in terms of the genres that best reflect both the Romantic influence and the achievements of the four poets: the commemorative poem, the return poem, and the greater Romantic lyric. …
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Stephen Leacock: Humour And Humanity
… on the need for "kindliness" in humorous literature. Moreover, Leacock's Tory-humanism and theory of humour--the theory which he presents in Humour, Its Theory and Technique (1935) and Humour And Humanity (1937)--are crucial to a full understanding of his two most accomplished works of …
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David Willson (1778-1866): Canadian Visionary Writer And Hymnodist
… of the period. A sketch of contemporary Upper Canadian publications suggests the literary context.;The thesis proceeds through Willson's books and manuscripts in chronological order to show the development of Willson's ideas and insights. Some of the topics are: Willson's treatment of …
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Memorable Acts/active Rememberers: Contemporary Canadian Memory Plays
… do we make it meaningful? These issues link the Canadian memory plays which will be discussed herein.;Hayden White has shown that narration is our favoured strategy for making sense of the past. The bio-narratives and biopsies found in Sharon Pollock's Doc will be the subject of the first …
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The 'bildungsgedicht' As Garden In Nineteenth- And Twentieth Century Canadian Long Poems
Much of the recent interest in the Canadian long poem has centered on poems that have been written in the last two decades. This thesis links the contemporary Canadian long poem with earlier developments by examining one kind of long poem that appears throughout Canada's literary history: the …