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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... Denniston produced a series of photo- graphic pairings that he calls Reminders . One of the most complex and interesting pieces from this series is Reminder # 20 , from 1979 . These images were inspired explicitly by the workings of ...
... Denniston produced a series of photo- graphic pairings that he calls Reminders . One of the most complex and interesting pieces from this series is Reminder # 20 , from 1979 . These images were inspired explicitly by the workings of ...
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... Denniston would be " reminded ” of a familiar place by a new scene that presented itself . He would then shoot this ... Denniston's photographic instan- tiation of memory to remain in the hold of such binarity . In conver- sation ...
... Denniston would be " reminded ” of a familiar place by a new scene that presented itself . He would then shoot this ... Denniston's photographic instan- tiation of memory to remain in the hold of such binarity . In conver- sation ...
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... Denniston went to Kent State , gathered impressions that were of course coloured by his own memories of the political events now associated with this place , and then returned to Canada to take photographs of specific sites , memories ...
... Denniston went to Kent State , gathered impressions that were of course coloured by his own memories of the political events now associated with this place , and then returned to Canada to take photographs of specific sites , memories ...
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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aesthetic anglo-Canadian Arachne Arachne's artist Atwood Baumgarten's called Canada Canadian art Canadian culture Canadian literature centre contemporary context conventions critical critique deconstructive Denniston Dionne Brand Dionysus discourse dominant ideology double essay European example F.R. Scott Famous Last Words female minoritarian feminine gothic feminism feminist fiction Findley Findley's found poem found poetry Gallant Gallery gender genre Gurney hero heroine Home Truths homosexual Hutcheon Indians interpretations introduction ironic irony Joanne Tod kind Kroetsch Lady Oracle language Linda Hutcheon literally literary male Margaret Atwood marginalized Mauberley Mauberley's meaning memory metanarratives minoritarian mode monument Muecke myth narrative native non-white Canadians novel Ontario painting parodic poetic poetry political position possible postmodern Pound preface racial reader reading refers relation representation rhetorical Robert Wiens sense sexual social speak speech strategy structure suggests tion Tod's Toronto total ambiguity tradition trope verbal voice woman women writing