Do you want to be happy and write? : critical essays on Michael Ondaatje /

"Michael Ondaatje has achieved international prominence and recognition in a way that few other writers have, let alone Canadian writers. This popularity is most pronounced for works of historical fiction such as The English Patient, winner of the Golden Man Booker Prize, and In the Skin of a L...

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Detalles Bibliográficos
Clasificación:Libro Electrónico
Otros Autores: Lecker, Robert, 1951- (Editor )
Formato: Electrónico eBook
Idioma:Inglés
Publicado: Montreal ; Chicago : McGill-Queen's University Press, [2023]
Temas:
Ondaatje, Michael, > 1943- > Criticism and interpretation.
Ondaatje, Michael, > 1943-
Criticism, interpretation, etc.
Literary criticism
Literary criticism.
Acceso en línea:Texto completo
Tabla de Contenidos:
  • Cover
  • Do You Want To Be Happy And Write?
  • Title
  • Copyright
  • Contents
  • Acknowledgments
  • Introduction
  • Poetry
  • 1 "dancing new / on this terrific ancient earth": Michael Ondaatje's Astonishing Poetics of Renewal
  • 2 Restlessness, Vertigo: Michael Ondaatje's Poetry
  • 3 Strange Familiars: Dogs in Michael Ondaatje's Early Poetry
  • 4 The Scent of Paradise: Michael Ondaatje's "The Cinnamon Peeler"
  • 5 The Pivot: Michael Ondaatje's Tin Roof
  • Visuality
  • 6 "The illusion of the unexceptional": Michael Ondaatje as Editor
  • 7 Michael Ondaatje in the Cinema
  • 8 "Landscapes and stories flung into branches": The Photography of Affect and Transnational Mobility in the Writings of Michael Ondaatje
  • Intermediality
  • 9 Creases and Broken Glass: Michael Ondaatje's Narrative and Intermediality
  • 10 Intermedial Aesthetics in The Cat's Table
  • Novels and Narratives-- 11 Fascination and Liminality in Michael Ondaatje's Coming Through Slaughter
  • 12 "The animal out of the desert": The Nomadic Metaphysics of Michael Ondaatje's In the Skin of a Lion
  • 13 Love, War, and the Other in Emmanuel Levinas, Jacques Derrida, and Michael Ondaatje: The English Patient as the Dialogic Field
  • 14 Reconfiguring an East-West Dialectic of Trauma in Michael Ondaatje's War Novels: The English Patient, Anil's Ghost, and Warlight
  • 15 Wartime Ghosts: War and the Liminal in The English Patient, Anil's Ghost, and Warlight
  • Endings
  • 16 The Dead That Haunt Anil's Ghost: Subaltern Difference and Postcolonial Melancholia
  • 17 Casualties of Love
  • 18 Ondaatje's Late Style
  • 19 "That eventual stranger": Toward Unrecognizability in Warlight
  • 20 Teaching Ondaatje: Learning to Live
  • Works by Michael Ondaatje
  • Bibliography
  • Contributors
  • Index

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