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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... Stories , " how not to read . What is unusual about Gallant's preface is that instead of merely guiding our reading of her “ Canadian " stories , she is defending her identity and her poetics from potential detractors . The introduction ...
... Stories , " how not to read . What is unusual about Gallant's preface is that instead of merely guiding our reading of her “ Canadian " stories , she is defending her identity and her poetics from potential detractors . The introduction ...
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... story ( much less a collection of stories ) . " Home " may be “ Canada , ” but the only " Truths " are " Stories , " Canadian or otherwise . Gallant uses a subversive subtext to justify her stance as a Cana- dian " who has failed to ...
... story ( much less a collection of stories ) . " Home " may be “ Canada , ” but the only " Truths " are " Stories , " Canadian or otherwise . Gallant uses a subversive subtext to justify her stance as a Cana- dian " who has failed to ...
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... stories and the defensive , political tone . These different intentions force the reader to interpret the introduction , to decipher the distance between what is said ( or not said ) and what is meant to read it ironically , in other ...
... stories and the defensive , political tone . These different intentions force the reader to interpret the introduction , to decipher the distance between what is said ( or not said ) and what is meant to read it ironically , in other ...
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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