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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... native eloquence ” that has so often been used to relegate the political to the realm of the “ merely ” — i.e. ... Natives whose geo- graphical / discursive " place in history " is determined by the treaty , and with the contemporary ...
... native eloquence ” that has so often been used to relegate the political to the realm of the “ merely ” — i.e. ... Natives whose geo- graphical / discursive " place in history " is determined by the treaty , and with the contemporary ...
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... native tribes as an endlessly ironizing palimpsest beneath Celant's words , especially those which suggest expiation and purgation of historical violence . Celant attempts to write his exhibition into the chaotic history of Europeans ...
... native tribes as an endlessly ironizing palimpsest beneath Celant's words , especially those which suggest expiation and purgation of historical violence . Celant attempts to write his exhibition into the chaotic history of Europeans ...
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... native life was dismantled and disrupted for all Indians with the coming of white conquest , but as well , the exclusion of native women renders this phrase doubly ironic . This poem is for women , those female minoritarians , but it is ...
... native life was dismantled and disrupted for all Indians with the coming of white conquest , but as well , the exclusion of native women renders this phrase doubly ironic . This poem is for women , those female minoritarians , but it is ...
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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Expressions et termes fréquents
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