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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... refers to the found poem as “ really a piece of realistic literature " ( 3 ) , referring , presumably , to its strategy of merely excerpting writing that " really exists " in the world . If we are to accept this view , however ...
... refers to the found poem as “ really a piece of realistic literature " ( 3 ) , referring , presumably , to its strategy of merely excerpting writing that " really exists " in the world . If we are to accept this view , however ...
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... work's inclusion under Celant's rubric points out that the " histories within History " he refers to must all be European histories ; there is no place among " the crazy vectors that go in unprogrammed directions " JULIE BEDDOES 103.
... work's inclusion under Celant's rubric points out that the " histories within History " he refers to must all be European histories ; there is no place among " the crazy vectors that go in unprogrammed directions " JULIE BEDDOES 103.
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... refers to a later time " when Athens was a tributary subject of Crete and when human sacrifices were per- formed , that is , when criminals and war captives were executed in a ritual context " ( 46 ) . This avatar RICHARD DELLAMORA 187.
... refers to a later time " when Athens was a tributary subject of Crete and when human sacrifices were per- formed , that is , when criminals and war captives were executed in a ritual context " ( 46 ) . This avatar RICHARD DELLAMORA 187.
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