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The Canadian short story : interpretations /
Beginning in the 1890s, reaching its first full realization by modernist writers in the 1920s, and brought to its heyday during the Canadian Renaissance starting in the 1960s, the short story has become Canada's flagship genre. It continues to attract the country's most accomplished and in...
| Clasificación: | Libro Electrónico |
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| Formato: | Electrónico eBook |
| Idioma: | Inglés |
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Columbia, S.C. :
Camden House,
2006.
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| Colección: | European studies in American literature.
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| Acceso en línea: | Texto completo |
Tabla de Contenidos:
- ""CONTENTS ""; ""PREFACE ""; ""The Canadian Short Story: Status, Criticism, Historical Survey""; ""1: Canadian Animal Stories: Charles G.D. Roberts, “Do Seek Their Meat from God� (1892)""; ""2: Tory Humanism, Ironic Humor, and Satire: Stephen Leacock, “The Marine Excursion of the Knights of Pythias� (1912)""; ""3: The Beginnings of Canadian Modernism: Raymond Knister, “The First Day of Spring� (written 1924/25)""; ""4: From Old World Aestheticist Immoralist to Prairie Moral Realist: Frederick Philip Grove, “Snow� (1926/1932)""
- ""5: Psychological Realism, Immigration, and City Fiction: Morley Callaghan, “Last Spring They Came Over� (1927)""""6: Modernism, Prairie Fiction, and Gender: Sinclair Ross, “The Lamp at Noon� (1938)""; ""7: “An Artful Artlessness�: Ethel Wilson, “We Have to Sit Opposite� (1945)""; ""8: Social Realism and Compassion for the Underdog: Hugh Garner, “One-Two-Three Little Indians� (1950)""; ""9: The Perils of Human Relationships: Joyce Marshall, “The Old Woman� (1952)""
- ""10: The Social Critic at Work: Mordecai Richler, “Benny, the War in Europe, and Myerson�s Daughter Bella� (1956)""""11: Myth and the Postmodernist Turn in Canadian Short Fiction: Sheila Watson, “Antigone� (1959)""; ""12: The Modernist Aesthetic: Hugh Hood, “Flying a Red Kite� (1962)""; ""13: Doing Well in the International Thing?: Mavis Gallant, “The Ice Wagon Going Down the Street� (1963)""; ""14: (Un- )Doing Gender: Alice Munro, “ Boys and Girls� (1964)""
- ""15: Collective Memory and Personal Identity in the Prairie Town of Manawaka: Margaret Laurence, “The Loons� (1966)""""16: “Out of Place�: Clark Blaise, “A Class of New Canadians� (1970)""; ""17: Realism and Parodic Postmodernism: Audrey Thomas, “Aquarius� (1971)""; ""18: “The Problem Is to Make the Story�: Rudy Wiebe, “Where Is the Voice Coming from?� (1971)""; ""19: The Canadian Writer as Expatriate: Norman Levine, “We All Begin in a Little Magazine� (1972)""; ""20: Canadian Artist Stories: John Metcalf, “The Strange Aberration of Mr. Ken Smythe� (1973)""
- ""21: “A Literature of a Whole World and of a Real World�: Jane Rule, “Lilian� (1977)""""22: Failure as Liberation: Jack Hodgins, “The Concert Stages of Europe� (1978)""; ""23: Figures in a Landscape: William Dempsey Valgardson, “A Matter of Balance� (1982)""; ""24: “The Translation of the World into Words� and the Female Tradition: Margaret Atwood, “Significant Moments in the Life of My Mother� (1983)""; ""25: “Southern Preacher�: Leon Rooke, “The Woman Who Talked to Horses� (1984)""; ""26: Nativeness as Third Space: Thomas King, “Borders� (1991)""