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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... Centre for Canadian Studies at York University . In 1988–89 , this research facility offered the context in which several colloquia and a regular faculty / gradu- ate student seminar took place around the topic of irony in Canadian art ...
... Centre for Canadian Studies at York University . In 1988–89 , this research facility offered the context in which several colloquia and a regular faculty / gradu- ate student seminar took place around the topic of irony in Canadian art ...
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... centre which itself escapes the “ play ” of elements , the displacements and substitutions made possi- ble by the structure ( 279 ) . " Post - structuralism " in effect tries to think structures in which the centre is itself subject to ...
... centre which itself escapes the “ play ” of elements , the displacements and substitutions made possi- ble by the structure ( 279 ) . " Post - structuralism " in effect tries to think structures in which the centre is itself subject to ...
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... centre is " out of the way . " Similarly , Kroetsch rereads Wacousta , the archetypal novel of the “ garrison mentality , ” as the novel which commences the ( postmodern ) search for “ [ a ] grammar that occasions rather than ...
... centre is " out of the way . " Similarly , Kroetsch rereads Wacousta , the archetypal novel of the “ garrison mentality , ” as the novel which commences the ( postmodern ) search for “ [ a ] grammar that occasions rather than ...
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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