Nordic Voices : Icelandic Voice in Canadian Letters: the Contribution of Icelandic-Canadian Writers to Canadian Literature.

Bibliographic Details
Call Number:Libro Electrónico
Main Author: Neijmann, Daisy (Author)
Format: Electronic eBook
Language:Inglés
Published: Montreal : Palo Alto : McGill-Queen's University Press, Ebrary, Incorporated [distributor] 1996 ;
Series:Nordic voices.
Subjects:
Authors, Icelandic > Canada.
Authors, Canadian.
Canadian literature.
Écrivains islandais > Canada.
Écrivains canadiens.
Authors, Canadian
Authors, Icelandic
Canadian literature
Canada
Online Access:Texto completo
Table of Contents:
  • ""Cover""; ""Contents""; ""Acknowledgements""; ""Introduction""; ""I: Omnia Mea Mecum Porto: Literary History and Background of the Icelanders""; ""Introduction""; ""Medieval Iceland and the dynamics of immigration""; ""Old Icelandic poetry""; ""Old Icelandic prose""; ""Post-Medieval Icelandic literature""; ""The Reformation and its literary influences""; ""Religious poetry: HallgrÃmur Pétursson""; ""Religious prose: Jón VÃdalÃn""; ""Secular poetry: rÃmur""; ""Secular prose: folk tales""; ""Characteristics of Icelandic folk tales""
  • ""Creatures of the wilderness: huldufólk, trolls and outlaws""""II: The Search For VÃnland the Good: Emigration and Settlement in the New World""; ""The nineteenth century: Romanticism and national revival""; ""The Romantic movement in Iceland""; ""The national situation""; ""Emigration and settlement in the New World""; ""Emigration""; ""The year in Ontario""; ""The founding of New Iceland""; ""The preservation of Icelandic culture and identity during the first decades""; ""III: ""Without a poet you and yours / will disappear and leave no trace"": Icelandic Immigrant Literature""
  • ""Introduction""""Western Icelandic poetry""; ""Káinn""; ""Stephan G. Stephansson""; ""Guttormur J. Guttormsson""; ""Western Icelandic Prose""; ""Jóhann Magnús Bjarnason""; ""Guðrún H. Finnsdóttir""; ""The move from Icelandic to English: Laura Goodman Salverson""; ""Literary pioneer or minor immigrant writer?""; ""Salverson and the Western Icelandic tradition""; ""Salverson and Canadian literature""; ""IV: ""Your pen is yet a power in your hands"": Icelandic-Canadian Literature in English""; ""Canadian and Icelandic-Canadian literature 1940-1970""; ""Canadian poetry""
  • ""Canadian fiction""""Icelandic-Canadian literature""; ""Contemporary Icelandic-Canadian writing: Thematic and stylistic concerns""; ""The thematic role of ethnic heritage""; ""Style""; ""Theme and outlook""; ""Documentation""; ""Myth and myth-making in the New World""; ""The role of Norse mythology""; ""Mythical figures: The hero, the outcast and the trickster""; ""Other mythic themes: Fatalism and sacrifice""; ""Myths of time and place""; ""Story-telling and myth-making""; ""Concluding remarks""
  • ""V: The Icelandic Tile in the Canadian Mosaic: Icelandic-Canadian Literature and Canadian Multiculturalism""""Multiculturalism in Canada""; ""The Icelandic Canadians as an ethnic group in Canada""; ""Icelandic-Canadian literature and the Canadian mosaic""; ""The Icelandic-Canadian Contribution""; ""Selected Bibliography of Western Icelandic Icelandic-Canadian Literature""; ""References""; ""Index""; ""A""; ""B""; ""C""; ""D""; ""E""; ""F""; ""G""; ""H""; ""I""; ""J""; ""K""; ""L""; ""M""; ""N""; ""O""; ""P""; ""Q""; ""R""; ""S""; ""T""; ""U""; ""V""; ""W""; ""Y""

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