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Not Needing all the Words : Michael Ondaatje's Literature of Silence.

Reading selected texts by Michael Ondaatje, including the novels In the Skin of a Lion and The English Patient and the poem "Birch Bark," Annick Hillger demonstrates how his writing both answers and challenges attempts to delineate the idea of a Canadian national self. She sets Ondaatje�...

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Clasificación:Libro Electrónico
Formato: Electrónico eBook
Idioma:Inglés
Publicado: McGill-Queen's University Press 2006.
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Acceso en línea:Texto completo
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  • Cover13;
  • Contents
  • Acknowledgments
  • Preface
  • Abbreviations
  • Introduction: Reading 8220;Birch Bark8221; 8211; How to Mourn the Loss of the Logos
  • PART ONE: AN AESTHETICS OF SILENCE
  • 1 Orpheus Is Dismembered
  • 2 Writing Disaster: 8220;Stars Who Implode into Silence8221;
  • 3 8220;Moving to the Clear8221;: A Poetics of Process
  • 4 The Dionysian Principle of Becoming
  • PART TWO: SILENCING MYTHS OF IDENTITY
  • 5 The Young Poet and the Fathers of Can.lit.
  • 6 The 8220;Sphinx of the Unknown Land8221; Is a 8220;Dainty Monster8221;
  • 7 Odysseus Is Never Returning
  • PART THREE: WEAVERS IN A SEA OF SILENCE
  • 8 An Archaeology of the 8220;Forgotten Mother8221;: Lilith and Ishtar
  • 9 The Art of Healing: Mary, Conredemptrix
  • Conclusion: 8220;This Sweet Touch from the World8221;
  • Notes
  • Bibliography
  • Index
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