Discoveries of the other : alterity in the work of Leonard Cohen, Hubert Aquin, Michael Ondaatje, and Nicole Brossard /

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Winfried Siemerling examines alterity in the work of four innovative postmodern authors, exploring self and other as textual figures of the unknown. Subjectivity appears mediated, in these texts, by a self-reflexive work in language, seeking to grasp itself in relation to a significant and often fas...

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Detalles Bibliográficos
Clasificación:Libro Electrónico
Autor principal: Siemerling, Winfried, 1956-
Formato: Electrónico eBook
Idioma:Inglés
Publicado: Toronto [Ont.] ; Buffalo [N.Y.] : University of Toronto Press, ©1994.
Colección:Theory/culture series.
Temas:
Aquin, Hubert, > 1929-1977 > Criticism and interpretation.
Brossard, Nicole > Criticism and interpretation.
Cohen, Leonard, > 1934-2016 > Criticism and interpretation.
Ondaatje, Michael, > 1943- > Criticism and interpretation.
Cohen, Leonard, > 1934- > Critique et interprétation.
Aquin, Hubert, > 1929-1977 > Critique et interprétation.
Ondaatje, Michael, > 1943- > Critique et interprétation.
Brossard, Nicole > Critique et interprétation.
Aquin, Hubert, > 1929-1977.
Brossard, Nicole.
Cohen, Leonard, > 1934-2016
Ondaatje, Michael, > 1943-
Aquin, Hubert.
1900-1999
Canadian fiction > 20th century > History and criticism.
French-Canadian literature > 20th century > History and criticism.
Canadian literature > Psychological aspects.
Difference (Psychology) in literature.
Postmodernism (Literature) > Canada.
Outsiders in literature.
Self in literature.
Strangers in literature.
Noncitizens in literature.
Littérature canadienne-française > 20e siècle > Histoire et critique.
Postmodernisme (Littérature) > Canada.
Étrangers dans la littérature.
Moi (Psychologie) dans la littérature.
LITERARY CRITICISM > General.
LITERARY CRITICISM > American > General.
Canadian fiction.
French-Canadian literature.
Postmodernism (Literature)
Literatur
De ander.
Canada.
Kanada
Englisch.
Französisch.
Electronic books.
Criticism, interpretation, etc.
Acceso en línea:Texto completo
Tabla de Contenidos:
  • 1. Introduction: Discoveries of the Other
  • 2. Hailed by Koan: Leonard Cohen and the Aesthetics of Loss. Poet, Priest, and Prophet: Community and the Production of the Other. Praying for Translation: Beautiful Losers and the Revenge of Names
  • 3. Hubert Aquin: Language and Legitimation. An Other('s) Eye. An Other('s) Past. Language, Legitimation, Representation. Alterity, AlterNation, AlterNative: Symmetry and Rupture in Prochain Episode and Trou de memoire. Prochain Episode and the Originality of the Other: A Battle of Symmetries? The F(l)ight of Reason: Trou de memoire
  • 4. 'Scared by the Company of the Mirror': Temptations of Identity and Limits of Control in the Work of Michael Ondaatje. 'Governed by Fears of Certainty'. Sonographs of a Star in the Mirror: 'Author and Hero' in Coming Through Slaughter. Enacting Metaphor: Running in the Family. 'Lights': Oral History and the Writing of the Other in In the Skin of a Lion.

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