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Land Sliding : Imagining Space, Presence, and Power in Canadian Writing.

Why have so many of this century's prominent political and literary critics wanted to find a single metaphor to describe the character of Canada? Why do so many use land-based metaphors to ask about the divisions between centres and margins, colony and empire, wealth and power? W.H. New, in Lan...

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Clasificación:Libro Electrónico
Formato: Electrónico eBook
Idioma:Inglés
Publicado: University of Toronto Press 1997.
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Acceso en línea:Texto completo

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