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Description:This is an important critical study of Canadian literature, placing internationally successful anglophone Canadian authors in the context of their national literary history.; While the focus of the book is on twentieth-century and contemporary writing, it also charts the historical development of Canadian literature and discusses important eighteenth- and nineteenth-century authors. The chapters focus on four central themes in Canadian culture: Ethnicity, Race, Colonisation; Wildernesses, Cities, Regions; Desire; and Histories and Stories. Each chapter combines case studies of five key texts with a broad discussion of concepts and approaches, including postcolonial and postmodern reading strategies and theories of space, place and desire. Authors chosen for close analysis include Margaret Atwood, Michael Ondaatje, Alice Munro, Leonard Cohen, Thomas King and Carol Shields.; This is the first critical guide to Canadian literature in English. Authors are selected on the basis of their popularity on undergraduate courses. It combines historical and thematic approaches to Canadian writing. It links close reading of key texts with theoretical approaches to Canadian literature.We have made it easy for you to find a PDF Ebooks without any digging. And by having access to our ebooks online or by storing it on your computer, you have convenient answers with Canadian Literature. Edinburgh Critical Guides to Literature.. To get started finding Canadian Literature. Edinburgh Critical Guides to Literature., you are right to find our website which has a comprehensive collection of manuals listed.
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Pages: 220

Format: PDF, EPUB & Kindle Edition

Publisher: Edinburgh University Press

Release: 2008

ISBN: 1281089214

Description: This is an important critical study of Canadian literature, placing internationally successful anglophone Canadian authors in the context of their national literary history.; While the focus of the book is on twentieth-century and contemporary writing, it also charts the historical development of Canadian literature and discusses important eighteenth- and nineteenth-century authors. The chapters focus on four central themes in Canadian culture: Ethnicity, Race, Colonisation; Wildernesses, Cities, Regions; Desire; and Histories and Stories. Each chapter combines case studies of five key texts with a broad discussion of concepts and approaches, including postcolonial and postmodern reading strategies and theories of space, place and desire. Authors chosen for close analysis include Margaret Atwood, Michael Ondaatje, Alice Munro, Leonard Cohen, Thomas King and Carol Shields.; This is the first critical guide to Canadian literature in English. Authors are selected on the basis of their popularity on undergraduate courses. It combines historical and thematic approaches to Canadian writing. It links close reading of key texts with theoretical approaches to Canadian literature.We have made it easy for you to find a PDF Ebooks without any digging. And by having access to our ebooks online or by storing it on your computer, you have convenient answers with Canadian Literature. Edinburgh Critical Guides to Literature.. To get started finding Canadian Literature. Edinburgh Critical Guides to Literature., you are right to find our website which has a comprehensive collection of manuals listed.
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