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This collection of essays on the writing of Robertson Davies addresses the basic problems in reading his work by looking at the topics of doubling, disguise, irony, paradox, and dwelling in "gaps" or spaces "in between." The essays present new insights on a broad range...
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University of Ottawa Press
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2001-07-03
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New ways of thinking about literature and history have radically changed how we think about or even “define” a region like the Prairie West. In fact, the very concept of “defining” has come into question by new theoretical approaches and it may now seem a hopeless...
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University of Manitoba Press
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2001-04-30
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The articles in this collection focus on politics in the widest sense and its influence and visibility in translations from the early Middle Ages to the late Renaissance.The articles in this collection, written by medievalists and Renaissance scholars, are part of the...
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University of Ottawa Press
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2001-03-07
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This collection of essays explores the dialogue between Arabic and European cultures during the medieval period starting from the year 700. Using critical approaches the contributors examine a variety of thematic and cultural concerns. Published in English.
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University of Ottawa Press
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2000-03-21
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Canadian critics and scholars, along with a growing number from around the world, have long recognized the achievements ofCanadian short story writers. However, these critics have tended to view theCanadian short story as a historically recent phenomenon. This...
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University of Ottawa Press
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1999-11-02
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A growing number of literary historians and critics now recognize the contemporary long poem as a distinctively Canadian genre. This collection of essays leads the reader to a deeper understanding of Canadian literary cultures in terms of their local intimacies and...
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University of Ottawa Press
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1999-01-07
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The Quebec Anthology: 1830-1990 provides a complete overview of the Quebec short story from its beginnings to the 1990s and offers a unique opportunity for English readers to discover the essence of this fascinating literature. In addition, a detailed biography of each...
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University of Ottawa Press
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1997-10-17
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There are two Icelands. One is the island in the North Sea, occupied since before the arrival of the Vikings. The other is "Western Iceland," the communities throughout North America, settled by Icelandic immigrants in the 19th and 20th centuries, and still maintaining...
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University of Manitoba Press
Parution :
1997-01-10
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Context North America is a comparative study of Canadian and American literary relations. It emphasizes the cultural and institutional contexts in which Canadian literature is taught and read. This volume examines how the literatures of Canada might aptly be studied and...
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University of Ottawa Press
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1994-01-01
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Wild Mother Dancing challenges the historical absence of the mother, who, as subject and character, has been repeatedly suppressed and edited out of the literary canon. In her search for sources for telling the new (or old, forbidden story) against a tradition of...
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University of Manitoba Press
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1993-09-15
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This selection of Western Icelandic writings, the first of its kind in English, represents a wide collection of first and second generation Icelandic-Canadian authors.
The stories, first published between 1895 and 1930, are set mainly in North America (especially...
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University of Manitoba Press
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1992-12-09
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The tarnished reputation of this turn-of-the-century poet is persuasively burnished anew by fifteen scholars, editors, and poets. Published in English.
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University of Ottawa Press
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1990-01-01
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The modern literary searchlight has flushed out Canada’s long neglected nineteenth century female writers. New critical approaches are advocated and others are encouraged to take on the difficulties – and rewards – of research into the lives of our foremothers....
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University of Ottawa Press
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1989-01-01
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The format of this book is arbitrary and exact, the way paint is in a landscape by Alex Colville. It follows the program of the symposium that took place at the University of Ottawa, from April 25 to 27, 1986.As Bakhtin leaps from the sidelines to centre stage, as...
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University of Ottawa Press
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1987-01-01
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W. B. Yeats spent a great deal of his life immersing himself in magical, mystical, and philosophic studies in order, as he claimed, to devise a personal system of thought “that would leave [his] ... imagination free to create as it chose and yet make all that it...
Editeur :
Wilfrid Laurier University Press
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1986-12-20
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Thomas Chandler Haliburton was perhaps the only Canadian writer whose name was a household word in nineteenth-century Canada. The ten papers in this volume reappraise the historical, geographical, political and literary contexts within which Haliburton lived and worked....
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University of Ottawa Press
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1985-01-01
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This work is the result of the fifth Symposium in the University of Ottawa Symposia series which focused on the life and work of Isabella Valancy Crawford (1850-1887). Acclaimed scholars of Canadian Literature joined to speak on Crawford's life, read and listen to her...
Editeur :
University of Ottawa Press
Parution :
1979-01-01
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This work is a result of the fourth symposium in the University of Ottawa Symposia series following those on Canadian writers Grove (1973), Klein (1974), and Lampman (1975). Scholars, friends, and readers gathered on May 1-2, 1976, to discuss "Ned Pratt", otherwise...
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University of Ottawa Press
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1977-01-01
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Nana von Émile Zola – Endlich verständlich mit der Lektürehilfe von derQuerleser! Diese klare und zuverlässige Analyse von Émile ZolasNana aus dem Jahre 1880 hilft Dir dabei, den Klassiker schnell in seinen wichtigsten Punkten zu erfassen. Die KurtisaneNana manipuliert...
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derQuerleser.de
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2019-11-15
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Lektürehilfe
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