Double Talking: Essays on Verbal and Visual Ironies in Canadian Contemporary Art and LiteratureLinda Hutcheon ECW Press, 1992 - 220 pages In the mass media today, as well as in high art and academia, there seems to be what one recent magazine has called an irony epidemic. This collection of essays considers irony in its Canadian literary and artistic context, with titles such as “Who Says That Canadian Culture Is Ironic?” and “Ironies of Color in the Great White North: The Discursive Strategies of Some Hyphenated Canadians.” |
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... total ambiguity that is so essentially Canadian ” he also resists the dominant ideology of Canadian culture , but his resistance takes the form of a peculiar use / abuse of that ideology ( Kroetsch and Bessai 2 15 ) . In many ways the ...
... total ambiguity that is so essentially Canadian ” he also resists the dominant ideology of Canadian culture , but his resistance takes the form of a peculiar use / abuse of that ideology ( Kroetsch and Bessai 2 15 ) . In many ways the ...
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... total ambiguity comes not from outside of the tradi- tional Canadian metanarrative - not from an ahistorical or formal- istic position free of the dominant ideology but rather from within it . As a new " master theme , " total ambiguity ...
... total ambiguity comes not from outside of the tradi- tional Canadian metanarrative - not from an ahistorical or formal- istic position free of the dominant ideology but rather from within it . As a new " master theme , " total ambiguity ...
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... total ambiguity , " balance " is itself a " countering ideal . ” To acknowledge the impossi- bility of countering ... Total ambiguity suggests that there is no resolution to the " irony at the heart of the Canadian , " no balance that ...
... total ambiguity , " balance " is itself a " countering ideal . ” To acknowledge the impossi- bility of countering ... Total ambiguity suggests that there is no resolution to the " irony at the heart of the Canadian , " no balance that ...
Table des matières
INTRODUCTION | 11 |
The Ironies of Canadian | 29 |
WHO SAYS THAT CANADIAN CULTURE IS IRONIC? | 39 |
Droits d'auteur | |
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