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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... metanarratives to explain / reduce texts to a stable configuration of meaning ( s ) . The assertion of a " total ambiguity ” undercuts the relevance of any such explanatory meta- narrative in regard to Canadian culture . Though ...
... metanarratives to explain / reduce texts to a stable configuration of meaning ( s ) . The assertion of a " total ambiguity ” undercuts the relevance of any such explanatory meta- narrative in regard to Canadian culture . Though ...
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... metanarratives .... " I am suggesting that by Lyotard's definition , Canada is a postmodern country . ( “ Disunity ” 1–2 ) • ― For Kroetsch , total ambiguity comes not from outside of the tradi- tional Canadian metanarrative - not from ...
... metanarratives .... " I am suggesting that by Lyotard's definition , Canada is a postmodern country . ( “ Disunity ” 1–2 ) • ― For Kroetsch , total ambiguity comes not from outside of the tradi- tional Canadian metanarrative - not from ...
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... metanarrative of feminism . However , it remains problematic and unappropriated because " your people " creates a racial divide instead of a gender one . Since the voice of the oppressed , Fanon's " the wretched of the earth , ” has ...
... metanarrative of feminism . However , it remains problematic and unappropriated because " your people " creates a racial divide instead of a gender one . Since the voice of the oppressed , Fanon's " the wretched of the earth , ” has ...
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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