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Other selves : animals in the Canadian literary imagination /
Other Selves: Animals in the Canadian Literary Imagination begins with the premise, first suggested by Margaret Atwood in The Animals in That Country (1968), that animals have occupied a peculiarly central position in the Canadian imagination. Unlike the longer-settled countries of Europe or the mor...
| Clasificación: | Libro Electrónico |
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| Formato: | Electrónico eBook |
| Idioma: | Inglés |
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Ottawa :
University of Ottawa Press,
2007.
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| Colección: | Re-appraisals, Canadian writers ;
31. |
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| Acceso en línea: | Texto completo |
Tabla de Contenidos:
- The Animals in This Country": Animals in the Canadian Literary Imagination / Janice Fiamengo
- pt. I. Reading Strategies for Animal Writing
- (B)othering the Theory: Approaching the Unapproachable in Bear and other Realistic Animal Narratives / Gwendolyn Guth
- "Ontological Applause": Metaphor and Homology in the Poetry of Don McKay / Susan Fisher
- "Drawn from Nature": Katherine Govier's Audubon and the Trauma of Extinction / Cynthia Sugars
- Lick me, Bite me, Hear me, Write me: Tracking Animals between Postcolonialism and Ecocriticism / Travis V. Mason
- Yann Martel's Life of Pi: Back in the World, or "The Story with Animals in the Better Story" / Jack Robinson
- pt. II. Animal Writers
- "So That Nothing May be Lost": Thomas McIlwraith's Birds of Ontario / Christoph Irmscher
- Marshall Saunders and the Urbanization of the Animal / Gwendolyn Davies
- Charles G.D. Robert's cosmic Animals: Aspects of "Mythticism" in Earth's Enigmas / Thomas Hodd
- St. Archie of the Wild: Grey Owl's Account of his "Natural" Conversion / Albert Braz
- "At War with Nature": Animals in Timothy Findley's The Wars / Peter Webb
- Fear, Friendship, and Delight: The appeal of Animals in the Children's Poetry of Dennis Lee / Greg Maillet
- pt. III. The Politics of Animal Representation
- When Elephants Weep: Reading The White Bone as a Sentimental Animal Story / Ella Soper-Jones
- "The Mania for Killing": Hunting and Collecting in Seton's The Arctic Prairies / Misao Dean
- The Politics of Hunting in Canadian women's Narratives of Travel / Wendy Roy
- National Species: Ecology, Allegory, and Indigeneity in the Wolf Stories of Roberts, Seton, and Mowat / Brian Johnson.