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Postmodern Canadian Fiction and the Rhetoric of Authority

Author : Glenn Deer
Publisher : McGill-Queen's Press - MQUP
ISBN 13 : 0773564527
Total Pages : 154 pages
Book Rating : 4.7/5 (735 download)

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Download or read book Postmodern Canadian Fiction and the Rhetoric of Authority written by Glenn Deer and published by McGill-Queen's Press - MQUP. This book was released on 1994-02-08 with total page 154 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Deer illuminates the psychology of family relations and power struggles in Sheila Watson's The Double Hook, the surrealism and spirit of sexual rebellion in Leonard Cohen's Beautiful Losers, the tensions between private psychology and public politics in Dave Godfrey's The New Ancestors, the implied male sympathies in the guise of a feminist persona in Robert Kroetsch's Badlands, the playful yet didactic uses of history in George Bowering's Burning Water, and the paradoxes of power in Margaret Atwood's dystopia, The Handmaid's Tale. Inspired by the philosophies of rhetoric and social discourse in the work of Kenneth Burke, Roger Fowler, Wayne Booth, and George Dillon, Deer forcefully engages the politics of postmodernism in its theoretical and literary dimensions by reading against the grain of canonizing criticism. He provides a detailed discussion of the connections between postmodern literary forms and world views and focuses particularly on how novels are scripted to influence readers and what kinds of world and social views are being promoted. Combining the ethical focus of Wayne Booth and Gerald Graff with elements of deconstruction, Deer's specialized readings of the novels imaginatively construct the addresser-addressee relations of texts and explicate narrative authority. This study will be of particular interest to students of Canadian literature and literary politics as well as scholars of rhetorical theory and criticism.

Postmodern Canadian Fiction and the Rhetoric of Authority

Author : Glenn Deer
Publisher : McGill-Queen's Press - MQUP
ISBN 13 : 9780773511590
Total Pages : 168 pages
Book Rating : 4.5/5 (115 download)

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Download or read book Postmodern Canadian Fiction and the Rhetoric of Authority written by Glenn Deer and published by McGill-Queen's Press - MQUP. This book was released on 1994 with total page 168 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Criticism that takes an ideological approach to Canadian writing is scarce; political-rhetorical studies are even more uncommon. In this original approach to postwar Canadian fiction Glenn Deer presents provocative readings of ideologies as well as experiments with authorial stances.

The Canadian Postmodern

Author : Linda Hutcheon
Publisher : Oxford University Press, USA
ISBN 13 :
Total Pages : 256 pages
Book Rating : 4.3/5 (91 download)

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Download or read book The Canadian Postmodern written by Linda Hutcheon and published by Oxford University Press, USA. This book was released on 1988 with total page 256 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This book studies the work of some of Canada's most prominent fiction writers in the context of postmodernism. Hutcheon shows that in Canada, this cultural phenomenon has not only found particularly fertile ground on which to develop but has also taken a distinctive form. She examines contemporary cultural theory and the writings of Margaret Atwood, Clark Blaise, George Bowering, Leonard Cohen, Timothy Findley, Jack Hodgins, Robert Kroetsch, Michael Ondaatje, Chris Scott, Susan Swan, Audrey Thomas, Aritha van Herk, and others.

RE: Reading the Postmodern

Author : Robert David Stacey
Publisher : University of Ottawa Press
ISBN 13 : 0776619233
Total Pages : 418 pages
Book Rating : 4.7/5 (766 download)

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Download or read book RE: Reading the Postmodern written by Robert David Stacey and published by University of Ottawa Press. This book was released on 2011-01-14 with total page 418 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: It would be difficult to exaggerate the worldwide impact of postmodernism on the fields of cultural production and the social sciences over the last quarter century—even if the concept has been understood in various, even contradictory, ways. An interest in postmodernism and postmodernity has been especially strong in Canada, in part thanks to the country’s non-monolithic approach to history and its multicultural understanding of nationalism, which seems to align with the decentralized, plural, and open-ended pursuit of truth as a multiple possibility as outlined by Jean-François Lyotard. In fact, long before Lyotard published his influential work The Postmodern Condition in 1979, Canadian writers and critics were employing the term to describe a new kind of writing. RE: Reading the Postmodern marks a first cautious step toward a history of Canadian postmodernism, exploring the development of the idea of the postmodern and debates about its meaning and its applicability to various genres of Canadian writing, and charting its decline in recent years as a favoured critical trope.

The Routledge Concise History of Canadian Literature

Author : Richard J. Lane
Publisher : Taylor & Francis
ISBN 13 : 1136816348
Total Pages : 271 pages
Book Rating : 4.1/5 (368 download)

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Download or read book The Routledge Concise History of Canadian Literature written by Richard J. Lane and published by Taylor & Francis. This book was released on 2012-04-27 with total page 271 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: The Routledge Concise History of Canadian Literature introduces the fiction, poetry and drama of Canada in its historical, political and cultural contexts. In this clear and structured volume, Richard Lane outlines: the history of Canadian literature from colonial times to the present key texts for Canadian First Peoples and the literature of Quebec the impact of English translation, and the Canadian immigrant experience critical themes such as landscape, ethnicity, orality, textuality, war and nationhood contemporary debate on the canon, feminism, postcoloniality, queer theory, and cultural and ethnic diversity the work of canonical and lesser-known writers from Catherine Parr Traill and Susanna Moodie to Robert Service, Maria Campbell and Douglas Coupland. Written in an engaging and accessible style and offering a glossary, maps and further reading sections, this guidebook is a crucial resource for students working in the field of Canadian Literature.

Canada : Images D'une Société Post/nationale

Author : Nordic Association for Canadian Studies. International Conference
Publisher : Peter Lang
ISBN 13 : 9789052014852
Total Pages : 392 pages
Book Rating : 4.0/5 (148 download)

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Download or read book Canada : Images D'une Société Post/nationale written by Nordic Association for Canadian Studies. International Conference and published by Peter Lang. This book was released on 2009 with total page 392 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Has Canada moved beyond the nation state into the world of the post-national? To what extent have fixed notions of Canadian nationhood been replaced by a more global, decentralized sense of identification? Is nationhood (or post-nationhood) best expressed by statelessness and exile or by belonging? Or can Canadian national identity in fact fruitfully coexist with the post-national consciousness? These are some of the issues covered by this volume, issues seen from a range of perspectives - literary, cultural, political and economic. In the literary sphere the national/post-national debate is explored both through canonical writers, such as L. M. Montgomery, Stephen Leacock, and Marie-Claire Blais, and through recent First Nations, Asian-Canadian, African-Canadian, Ukrainian-Canadian and Quebec writing. The political and economic range is equally diverse, covering such topics as immigration policy, multiculturalism, Canadian-American relations, tourist imaginings of the Canadian North, the Canadian city, and Quebec nationalism. The book brings together 27 original articles from international scholars and creative writers, offering both European and Canadian perspectives. Six articles in French focus specifically on the francophone sphere.

Contemporary Women’s Post-Apocalyptic Fiction

Author : Susan Watkins
Publisher : Springer Nature
ISBN 13 : 1137486503
Total Pages : 226 pages
Book Rating : 4.1/5 (374 download)

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Download or read book Contemporary Women’s Post-Apocalyptic Fiction written by Susan Watkins and published by Springer Nature. This book was released on 2020-02-29 with total page 226 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This book examines how contemporary women novelists have successfully transformed and rewritten the conventions of post-apocalyptic fiction. Since the dawn of the new millennium, there has been an outpouring of writing that depicts the end of the world as we know it, and women writers are no exception to this trend. However, the book argues that their fiction is distinctive. Contemporary women’s work in this genre avoids conservatism, a nostalgic mourning for the past, and the focus on restoring what has been lost, aspects key to much male authored apocalyptic fiction. Instead, contemporary women writers show readers the ways in which patriarchy and neo-colonialism are intrinsically implicated in the disasters they envision, and offer qualified hope for a new beginning for society, culture and literature after an imagined apocalyptic event. Exploring science, nature and matter, the posthuman body, the maternal imaginary, time, narrative and history, literature and the word, and the post-secular, the book covers a wide variety of writers and addresses issues of nationality, race and ethnicity, as well as gender and sexuality.

Adjacencies

Author : Domenic A. Beneventi
Publisher : Guernica Editions
ISBN 13 : 1550711679
Total Pages : 257 pages
Book Rating : 4.5/5 (57 download)

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Download or read book Adjacencies written by Domenic A. Beneventi and published by Guernica Editions. This book was released on 2004 with total page 257 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This collection of essays provides a forum in which Canadian ethnicity and literature are explored from a broad range of perspectives. It reveals the many ways in which minority writers not only create a sense of community and ethnic specificity but also open avenues of discourse to adjacent communities.

A Postmodern Cinema

Author : Mary Alemany-Galway
Publisher : Scarecrow Press
ISBN 13 : 9780810840980
Total Pages : 288 pages
Book Rating : 4.8/5 (49 download)

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Download or read book A Postmodern Cinema written by Mary Alemany-Galway and published by Scarecrow Press. This book was released on 2002 with total page 288 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Alemany-Galway (media studies, Massey University, New Zealand) engages with a trend in Canadian cinema that speaks for those who are marginalized by society. She develops a rationale for a postmodern film theory to explore this trend and then focuses closely on four films: Jesus of Montreal, I've Heard the Mermaids Singing, Family Viewing, Life Classes. Annotation copyrighted by Book News, Inc., Portland, OR

Contemporary Fiction

Author : Jago Morrison
Publisher : Psychology Press
ISBN 13 : 9780415194556
Total Pages : 280 pages
Book Rating : 4.1/5 (945 download)

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Download or read book Contemporary Fiction written by Jago Morrison and published by Psychology Press. This book was released on 2003 with total page 280 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: A much-needed introduction to the field of contemporary fiction studies. Introduces key areas of debate and offers in-depth discussions of the most significant texts. An ideal guide for those studying contemporary fiction for the first time.

New World Myth

Author : Marie Vautier
Publisher : McGill-Queen's Press - MQUP
ISBN 13 : 0773566880
Total Pages : 364 pages
Book Rating : 4.7/5 (735 download)

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Download or read book New World Myth written by Marie Vautier and published by McGill-Queen's Press - MQUP. This book was released on 1998-01-06 with total page 364 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: There is an emphasis on de-constructing, de-centring, de-stabilizing, and especially de-mythologizing in the study that illustrates New World myth narrators questioning the past in the present and carrying out their original investigations of myth, place, and identity. Underlining the fact that political realities are encoded in the language and narrative of the works, Vautier argues that the reworkings of literary, religious, and historical myths and political ideologies in these novels are grounded in their shared situation of being in and of the New World.

Feminism and Contemporary Women Writers

Author : Radha Chakravarty
Publisher : Routledge
ISBN 13 : 1317809955
Total Pages : 207 pages
Book Rating : 4.3/5 (178 download)

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Download or read book Feminism and Contemporary Women Writers written by Radha Chakravarty and published by Routledge. This book was released on 2014-05-30 with total page 207 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This book attempts to deal with the problem of literary subjectivity in theory and practice. The works of six contemporary women writers — Doris Lessing, Anita Desai, Mahasweta Devi, Buchi Emecheta, Margaret Atwood and Toni Morrison — are discussed as potential ways of testing and expanding the theoretical debate. A brief history of subjectivity and subject formation is reviewed in the light of the works of thinkers such as Hobbes, Hume, Kant, Hegel, Marx, Nietzsche, Raymond Williams and Stephen Greenblatt, and the work of leading feminists is also seen contributing to the debate substantially.

Margaret Atwood and Social Justice

Author : Theodore F. Sheckels
Publisher : Cambridge Scholars Publishing
ISBN 13 : 1527590992
Total Pages : 174 pages
Book Rating : 4.5/5 (275 download)

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Download or read book Margaret Atwood and Social Justice written by Theodore F. Sheckels and published by Cambridge Scholars Publishing. This book was released on 2022-11-25 with total page 174 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Margaret Atwood and Social Justice eventually presents a loose ideology evident in the author’s major works of prose fiction. It insists, however, that Atwood is a writer, not an ideologue, and that, therefore, this ideology evolves over her career, always secondary to her presenting stories and characters and, through them, ideas. Throughout her career, Atwood has been concerned about the social injustice experienced by women. After expressing concern for the plight of the environment in Surfacing and workers in Life Before Man, Atwood turned quite political in Bodily Harm and The Handmaid’s Tale, blending her concern for justice for women with criticism of present-day Third-World and future right-wing governments. Atwood, then, turned inward, looking at how those denied justice often do the same to others and turned to history, looking at injustice tied to social class. She later brought many of her concerns together in The Blind Assassin and, especially, the three books that comprise the MaddAddam trilogy. Later works such as The Heart Goes Last, Hag-Seed, and The Testaments add to the picture most fully articulated in The Blind Assassin, which looks back at the 1930s, and the MaddAddam books, which look ahead to a future marked by global warming, corporate oppression, and pandemic. As argued here, these later books strengthen her indictment of corporations, which oppress for the sake of profit, and offer her most straightforward recognition that race plays a major role in whether social justice is served or not.

Canadian Books in Print. Author and Title Index

Author :
Publisher : University of Toronto Press
ISBN 13 :
Total Pages : 1610 pages
Book Rating : 4.8/5 (398 download)

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Download or read book Canadian Books in Print. Author and Title Index written by and published by University of Toronto Press. This book was released on 1975 with total page 1610 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:

The Political in Margaret Atwood's Fiction

Author : Theodore F. Sheckels
Publisher : Routledge
ISBN 13 : 1317020731
Total Pages : 200 pages
Book Rating : 4.3/5 (17 download)

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Download or read book The Political in Margaret Atwood's Fiction written by Theodore F. Sheckels and published by Routledge. This book was released on 2016-02-24 with total page 200 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Suggesting that politics and power are at the center of Margaret Atwood's fiction, Theodore F. Sheckels examines Atwood's novels from The Edible Woman to The Year of the Flood. Whether her treatment is explicit as in Bodily Harm and The Handmaid's Tale or by means of an exploration of interiority as in Cat's Eye and The Robber Bride, Atwood's persistent concern is with how the empowered act towards those who are constrained within the political, economic and social institutions that facilitate power dynamics. Sheckels identifies an increasing sophistication in Atwood's exposition of power over time that is revealed in the later novels' engagement with social class, postcolonialism, and a globalism that merges science and commerce as issues relevant to politics and power. Acknowledging that Atwood is not a political theorist but a novelist, Sheckels does not suggest that her work should be viewed as political commentary but rather as a creative treatment of the laudable but ultimately only partially successful ways in which women and other groups resist the constraints placed on them by institutionalized oppression.

Challenging Canada

Author : Gabriele Helms
Publisher : McGill-Queen's Press - MQUP
ISBN 13 : 0773571299
Total Pages : 224 pages
Book Rating : 4.7/5 (735 download)

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Download or read book Challenging Canada written by Gabriele Helms and published by McGill-Queen's Press - MQUP. This book was released on 2003-09-22 with total page 224 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Challenging Canada is the first book-length study to bring a Bakhtinian approach to bear on Canadian literature. Gabriele Helms develops a cultural narratology to argue that the contemporary Canadian novels in English considered in this book challenge dominant constructions of Canada from positions of difference and resistance, inscribing previously oppressed and silenced voices through dialogic relations. She makes Mikhail Bakhtin's concept of dialogism amenable to textual analysis and problematizes its ideological forces by emphasizing elements of struggle and conflict. Challenging Canada rejects dialogism as a normative liberal pluralism and understands the inequality between voices as historically and socially constructed.

Canadian Culinary Imaginations

Author : Shelley Boyd
Publisher : McGill-Queen's Press - MQUP
ISBN 13 : 022801378X
Total Pages : 456 pages
Book Rating : 4.2/5 (28 download)

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Download or read book Canadian Culinary Imaginations written by Shelley Boyd and published by McGill-Queen's Press - MQUP. This book was released on 2022-03-30 with total page 456 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: In the twenty-first century, food is media – it is not just on plates, but in literature and on screens, displayed in galleries, studios, and public places. Canadian Culinary Imaginations provokes new conversations about the food-related concepts, memories, emotions, cultures, practices, and tastes that make Canada unique. This collection brings together academics, writers, artists, journalists, and curators to discuss how food mediates our experiences of the nation and the world. Together, the contributors reveal that culinary imaginations reflect and produce the diverse bodies, contexts, places, communities, traditions, and environments that Canadians inhabit, as well as their personal and artistic sensibilities. Arranged in four thematic sections – Indigeneity and foodways; urban, suburban, and rural environments; cultural and national lineages; and subversions of categories – the essays in this collection indulge a growing appetite for conversations about creative engagements with food and the world at large. As the essays and images in Canadian Culinary Imaginations demonstrate, food is more than sustenance – as language and as visual and material culture, it holds the power to represent and remake the world in unexpected ways.