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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... Arachne ASKS Thomas to " turn her into a respectable woman " ( 137 ) . She can safely do so knowing that the " quiet transformation ” is nothing but one of the “ covers ” she tries on throughout the plot , another " disguise , " as the ...
... Arachne ASKS Thomas to " turn her into a respectable woman " ( 137 ) . She can safely do so knowing that the " quiet transformation ” is nothing but one of the “ covers ” she tries on throughout the plot , another " disguise , " as the ...
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... Arachne's mother , she simply backed away " ( 39 ) . She constantly has to cope with the discrepancy between romance plots and real life : " only in movies did characters long for adventure , follow it , seize it " ( 82 ) . Mother and ...
... Arachne's mother , she simply backed away " ( 39 ) . She constantly has to cope with the discrepancy between romance plots and real life : " only in movies did characters long for adventure , follow it , seize it " ( 82 ) . Mother and ...
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... Arachne means going back to the past , back to " her own escaped history " ( 278 ) . It becomes a self - destructive movement marked by the conscious pain of returning to the repressed 16 and by a record of her various selves , " dying ...
... Arachne means going back to the past , back to " her own escaped history " ( 278 ) . It becomes a self - destructive movement marked by the conscious pain of returning to the repressed 16 and by a record of her various selves , " dying ...
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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