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Downtown Canada : writing Canadian cities /
"Downtown Canada is a collection of essays that addresses Canada as an urban place. The contributors focus their attention on the writing of Canada's cities - including Vancouver, Toronto, Ottawa, Montreal, and Halifax - and call attention to the centrality of the city in Canadian literatu...
| Clasificación: | Libro Electrónico |
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| Formato: | Electrónico eBook |
| Idioma: | Inglés |
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Toronto, Ont. :
University of Toronto Press,
2005.
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| Acceso en línea: | Texto completo |
Tabla de Contenidos:
- Introduction: Writing Canadian cities / Doublas Ivison, Justin D. Edwards
- 'An ordered absence': defeatured topologies in Canadian literature / Richard Cavell
- 'Orient dreams': urbanity and the post-confederation literary culture of Ottawa / Steven Artelle
- Post-colonial historicity: Halifax, region, and empire in Barometer rising and The nymph and the lamp / Christopher J. Armstrong
- La ville en vol/city in flight: tracing lesbian e-motion through Jovette Marchessault's Comme un enfant de la terre / Barbara Godard
- Cities and classrooms, bodies and texts: notes towards a resident reading (and teaching) of Vancouver writing / Peter Dickinson
- Lost in the city: the Montreal novels of Régine Robin and Robert Majzels / Domenic Beneventi
- Building and living the immigrant city: Michael Ondaatje's and Austin Clarke's Toronto / Batia Boe Stolar
- Divided cities, divided selves: portraits of the artist as ambivalent urban hipster / Lisa Salem-Wiseman
- Rewriting white flight: suburbia in Gerald Lynch's Troutstream and Joan Barfoot's Dancing in the dark / Paul Milton
- Duelling and dwelling in Toronto and London: transnational urbanism in Catherine Bush's The rules of engagement / John Clement Ball
- Epilogue / Justin D. Edwards, Douglas Ivison.