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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... GALLANT'S IRONIC INTRODUCTION KAREN SMYTHE University of Regina AVIS GALLANT has come to be known as one of the ironists supreme in Canadian letters . Her fiction is char- acterized by detached narrators and an ironic tone , pro- ducing ...
... GALLANT'S IRONIC INTRODUCTION KAREN SMYTHE University of Regina AVIS GALLANT has come to be known as one of the ironists supreme in Canadian letters . Her fiction is char- acterized by detached narrators and an ironic tone , pro- ducing ...
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... Gallant adheres to a national- istic aesthetic , one that she might explain in the introduction . Yet Gallant uses the forum of the preface ironically to declare that " where his work is concerned , the writer , like any other artist ...
... Gallant adheres to a national- istic aesthetic , one that she might explain in the introduction . Yet Gallant uses the forum of the preface ironically to declare that " where his work is concerned , the writer , like any other artist ...
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... Gallant was not as popular with Canadian audiences as she should have been , as she is at pains to point out in her ... Gallant the 1981 Governor General's Award for fiction . Apparently the judges , too , were " very literal readers ...
... Gallant was not as popular with Canadian audiences as she should have been , as she is at pains to point out in her ... Gallant the 1981 Governor General's Award for fiction . Apparently the judges , too , were " very literal readers ...
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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