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Imagined nations : reflections on media in Canadian fiction /

In Imagined Nations David Williams explores works by authors such as Alistair MacLeod, Michael Ondaatje, and Timothy Findley, examining the ways in which these writers show how our sense of time and space and our sense of personal and national identities have been altered by changes in modes of comm...

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Detalles Bibliográficos
Clasificación:Libro Electrónico
Autor principal: Williams, David, 1945-
Formato: Electrónico eBook
Idioma:Inglés
Publicado: Montreal, Que. : McGill-Queen's University Press, 2003.
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Acceso en línea:Texto completo
Tabla de Contenidos:
  • Fictions of the nation
  • Novel and nation
  • The mode of communication
  • Orality and print : from clan to nation in No great mischief
  • Doubling and irony : print nationalists vs. radio confederates in The colony of unrequited dreams
  • Writing and revolution : the prisoner of print in Prochain épisode
  • The shock of film and the transformation of place : a case in point in The butterfly plague
  • Film-nations vs. print-nations : the politics of metonymy in The Englishman's boy
  • Film and print versions of The English patient : Wuthering Heights in the global village
  • Boundary breakdowns : portents of the digital revolution in The English patient
  • Border wars : doing battle with the transnationals in Neuromancer.