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Postmodern Canadian fiction and the rhetoric of authority /

Deer illuminates the psychology of family relations and power struggles in Sheila Watson's The Double Hook, the surrealism and spirit of sexual rebellion in Leonard Cohen's Beautiful Losers, the tensions between private psychology and public politics in Dave Godfrey's The New Ancestor...

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Bibliographic Details
Call Number:Libro Electrónico
Main Author: Deer, Glenn
Format: Electronic eBook
Language:Inglés
Published: Montreal ; Buffalo : McGill-Queen's University Press, ©1994.
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Online Access:Texto completo
Table of Contents:
  • Contents
  • Acknowledgments
  • 1 Rhetorical Interventions and Literary Politics
  • 2 The Double Hook: Miracle, Mystery, and Authority
  • 3 Beautiful Losers: Escape from Freedom
  • 4 The New Ancestors: Politics and Private Life
  • 5 Badlands Remembering and Forgiving the Father's Past
  • 6 Burning Water: Serious Motives for Play
  • 7 The Handmaid's Tale: Dystopia and the Paradoxes of Power
  • 8 Conclusion
  • Works Cited
  • Index
  • A
  • B
  • C
  • D
  • E
  • F
  • G
  • H
  • I
  • J
  • K
  • L
  • M
  • N
  • O
  • P
  • R
  • S
  • T
  • V