Dominant Impressions: Essays on the Canadian Short StoryGerald Lynch, Angela Robbeson University of Ottawa Press, 1999 - 168 pages Canadian critics and scholars, along with a growing number from around the world, have long recognized the achievements of Canadian short story writers. However, these critics have tended to view the Canadian short story as a historically recent phenomenon. This reappraisal corrects this mistaken view by exploring the literary and cultural antecedents of the Canadian short story. |
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... Reading the " Clues ” ROBERT THACKER 127 Hands and Mirrors : Gender Reflections in the Short Stories of Alistair MacLeod and Timothy Findley LAURIE KRUK 137 " To make the necessary dream perpetual " : Postrealist Contents.
... Reading the " Clues ” ROBERT THACKER 127 Hands and Mirrors : Gender Reflections in the Short Stories of Alistair MacLeod and Timothy Findley LAURIE KRUK 137 " To make the necessary dream perpetual " : Postrealist Contents.
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... Robbeson. " To make the necessary dream perpetual " : Postrealist Heroes in Canadian Short Fiction DEBORAH BOWEN 151 The Canadian Short Story ALISTAIR MACLEOD 161 Introduction CANADIAN CRITICS AND SCHOLARS , along with a grow- VI.
... Robbeson. " To make the necessary dream perpetual " : Postrealist Heroes in Canadian Short Fiction DEBORAH BOWEN 151 The Canadian Short Story ALISTAIR MACLEOD 161 Introduction CANADIAN CRITICS AND SCHOLARS , along with a grow- VI.
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... MacLeod , and Timothy Find- ley - and one that examines the concept of the hero in contemporary Canadian short fiction . Essentially , then , this volume offers essays toward a long overdue historical and cultural re - contextualizing ...
... MacLeod , and Timothy Find- ley - and one that examines the concept of the hero in contemporary Canadian short fiction . Essentially , then , this volume offers essays toward a long overdue historical and cultural re - contextualizing ...
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Table des matières
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The Canadian Young Adult Short Story of the Nineteenth Century Comes of Age | 53 |
Social ist Realism in Canadian Short Stories of the 1930s | 65 |
The Cases of Morley Callaghan | 75 |
Rediscovering the Popular Canadian Short Story | 87 |
Romance and Reality in Margaret Laurences A Bird in the House | 99 |
Sheila Watsons Short Fiction | 115 |
Reading the Clues | 127 |
Gender Reflections in the Short Stories of Alistair MacLeod and Timothy Findley | 137 |
Postrealist Heroes in Canadian Short Fiction | 151 |
The Canadian Short Story | 161 |
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Expressions et termes fréquents
Alice Munro Alistair MacLeod American appears authors Bird British Brother Oedipus Callaghan Canada Canadian Literature Canadian Magazine Canadian short story Canadian writers Carman characters Charles G. D. Roberts Collected Letters critical cultural death dream Duncan Campbell Scott Earth's Enigmas edited essay Family Herald father Findley Findley's Freudian myth gender roles genre girl hand hero House Hovey Hovey's human Kroetsch language Laurence's literary lives Livesay male Manawaka Margaret Laurence Marie Maurice Maeterlinck mirror Morley Callaghan Morley Callaghan's mother mythic narrative narrator nineteenth-century novel Oedipal story cycle Ottawa Parker perhaps Pierre Poems popular short story protagonists published Ravens that Call reader Roberts's romance Rumble Seat Sara Jeannette Duncan Seek Their Meat seems Sheila Watson short fiction signifier social socialist realism Stone symboliste tell thing tion Toronto Trans Vanessa Village of Viger Watson woman writing Young Ravens Youth's Companion
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Page 47 - Consider the ravens: for they neither sow nor reap ; which neither have storehouse nor barn ; and God feedeth them : how much more are ye better than the fowls?
Page 47 - Who provideth for the raven his food ? when his young ones cry unto God, they wander for lack of meat.
Page 107 - THE SONG MY PADDLE SINGS WEST wind, blow from your prairie nest, Blow from the mountains, blow from the west. The sail is idle, the sailor too; 0 wind of the west, we wait for you! Blow, blow!
Page 47 - Who covereth the heaven with clouds, who prepareth rain for the earth, who maketh grass to grow upon the mountains. He giveth to the beast his food, and to the young ravens which cry.
Page 79 - In its emergent, strong form a genre is essentially a socio-symbolic message, or in other terms, that form is immanently and intrinsically an ideology in its own right. When such forms are reappropriated and refashioned in quite different social and cultural contexts, this message persists and must be functionally reckoned into the new form.
Page 35 - ... deep of the night, a very old priest is sitting, wrapped in a great black cloak. The chest and the head, gently upturned and deathly motionless, rest against the trunk of a giant hollow oak. The face is fearsome pale and of an immovable waxen lividness, in which the ^purple lips fall slightly apart. The dumb, fixed eyes no longer look out from the visible side of Eternity and seem to bleed with immemorial sorrows and with tears.
Page 107 - West Wind, blow from your prairie nest; Blow from the mountains, blow from the west— and so on. It seemed to me that Piquette must be in some way a daughter of the forest, a kind of junior prophetess of the wilds, who might impart to me, if I took the right approach, some of the secrets which she undoubtedly knew— where the whippoorwill made her nest, how the coyote reared her young, or whatever it was that it said in Hiawatha.
Page 117 - Truth to tell, the best weapon against myth is perhaps to mythify it in its turn, and to produce an artificial myth: and this reconstituted myth will in fact be a mythology.
Page 137 - Hence, within the inherited discourse of the metaphysics of substance, gender proves to be performative - that is, constituting the identity it is purported to be. In this sense, gender is always a doing...
Page 30 - Free among the dead, like unto them that are wounded, and lie in the grave, who are out of remembrance, and are cut away from thy hand.