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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... Atwood in Survival . According to Atwood , Canada's experience as a colony leads Canadian literature to be unusually pessimistic or " ironic . " Because " Canada as a whole is a victim , or an ' oppressed minority , ' or ' exploited ...
... Atwood in Survival . According to Atwood , Canada's experience as a colony leads Canadian literature to be unusually pessimistic or " ironic . " Because " Canada as a whole is a victim , or an ' oppressed minority , ' or ' exploited ...
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... Atwood . D.G. Jones argued in Butterfly on Rock that the " only effective defence for a garrison culture " was to ... Atwood's reading of Canadian culture , his argument for a different tradition accepts the methodological assumptions of ...
... Atwood . D.G. Jones argued in Butterfly on Rock that the " only effective defence for a garrison culture " was to ... Atwood's reading of Canadian culture , his argument for a different tradition accepts the methodological assumptions of ...
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... Atwood or by those in Ottawa , suggest that we have one national outlook and one cultural theme . They assume that , although we Canadians do come in more than one colour , it does not really matter . This rhetoric of identification ...
... Atwood or by those in Ottawa , suggest that we have one national outlook and one cultural theme . They assume that , although we Canadians do come in more than one colour , it does not really matter . This rhetoric of identification ...
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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