Robertson Davies And The Quest For A Canadian National Identity

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Robertson Davies and the Quest for a Canadian National Identity

Author : Sabine Jackson
Publisher : Peter Lang Pub Incorporated
ISBN 13 : 9783631552124
Total Pages : 226 pages
Book Rating : 4.5/5 (521 download)

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Download or read book Robertson Davies and the Quest for a Canadian National Identity written by Sabine Jackson and published by Peter Lang Pub Incorporated. This book was released on 2006 with total page 226 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This book wants to make a contribution to the current discussion on Canadian identity. The author outlines the connection between the development of the Canadian national identity and Robertson Davies, an important author of the 20th century. Looking at his essays, plays and novels, Sabine Jackson tries to demonstrate Canada's development from a colony to an autonomous country and its effects on the Canadian consciousness.

Otherness in the Novels of Patrick White

Author : Alma Budurlean
Publisher : Peter Lang
ISBN 13 : 9783631589090
Total Pages : 188 pages
Book Rating : 4.5/5 (89 download)

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Book Synopsis Otherness in the Novels of Patrick White by : Alma Budurlean

Download or read book Otherness in the Novels of Patrick White written by Alma Budurlean and published by Peter Lang. This book was released on 2009 with total page 188 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: The central argument of the thesis, the representation and reception of otherness, is followed throughout White's novels with the support of a complex critical instrumentarium made up of postcolonial theory, reader response theory, cultural-critical frameworks, alterity theory, and narratology. Otherness in its manifold representations is a main component of Patrick White's fiction. It functions on several levels and this requires a deeper entanglement on the part of the reader. The different levels previously referred to are embodied in the various Others who people White's novels: ethnic Others as members of the Australian multicultural society and the Aborigines as colonial Others, as well as gender Others, who also play an important role in White's fictional world. Reading Patrick White is an exercise in tolerance, endurance and acceptance of alternatives. But the efforts of the reader do not remain unrewarded. In his endeavour to change what it meant to imagine Australia, the writer broke down the barriers of what it meant to imagine otherness.

Rethinking Postmodern Subjectivity

Author : Zuzanna Ladyga
Publisher : Peter Lang
ISBN 13 : 9783631591093
Total Pages : 200 pages
Book Rating : 4.5/5 (91 download)

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Download or read book Rethinking Postmodern Subjectivity written by Zuzanna Ladyga and published by Peter Lang. This book was released on 2009 with total page 200 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: What is postmodern literary subjectivity? How to talk about it without falling in the trap of negative hyper-essentialism or being seduced by exuberant lit speak? One way out of this dilemma, as this book suggests, is via a redefinition of the concept in the context of Emmanuel Levinas and his radical ethics. By defining subjectivity as an ethically charged act of language, Levinas provides a fresh perspective on the often trivialized aspects of postmodern poetics such as referentiality and affect construction strategies. The foregrounding of the ethical dimension of those poetic elements has far-reaching consequences for how we read postmodern texts and understand postmodernism in general. Thus, to prove the benefits of the Levinasian approach, the author applies it to the work of the canonical American postmodernist, Donald Barthelme, and explains the distinctly ethical character of his apparently surfictional experiments.

Canada

Author :
Publisher : PediaPress
ISBN 13 :
Total Pages : 1321 pages
Book Rating : 4./5 ( download)

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Download or read book Canada written by and published by PediaPress. This book was released on with total page 1321 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:

Bodies and Voices

Author : Anna Rutherford
Publisher : Rodopi
ISBN 13 : 9042023341
Total Pages : 500 pages
Book Rating : 4.0/5 (42 download)

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Download or read book Bodies and Voices written by Anna Rutherford and published by Rodopi. This book was released on 2008 with total page 500 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: The articles investigate representations in literature, both by the colonizers and colonized. Many deal with the effect the dominant culture had on the self image of native inhabitants. They cover areas on all continents that were colonized by European countries.

The Canadian Protestant Experience, 1760 to 1990

Author : George A. Rawlyk
Publisher : McGill-Queen's Press - MQUP
ISBN 13 : 9780773511323
Total Pages : 260 pages
Book Rating : 4.5/5 (113 download)

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Book Synopsis The Canadian Protestant Experience, 1760 to 1990 by : George A. Rawlyk

Download or read book The Canadian Protestant Experience, 1760 to 1990 written by George A. Rawlyk and published by McGill-Queen's Press - MQUP. This book was released on 1994 with total page 260 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Five leading Canadian religious historians address the Canadian Protestant experience. Each author considers a separate period, taking into account the major underlying themes of the time and noting the influence exerted by key personalities. As this collection shows, Protestantism had its most profound effects on Canadian life in the nineteenth century. As the twentieth century unfolded, however, Canadian Protestantism, battered by demographic change, profound inner doubt, so-called modernity, and secularization, was gradually pushed to the periphery of Canadian experience. The contributors are Phyllis D. Airhart, Nancy Christie, Michael Gauvreau, John G. Stackhouse Jr, and Robert A. Wright.

Canadian Culture and National Identity

Author : Jerry Diakiw
Publisher : GRIN Verlag
ISBN 13 : 3656072558
Total Pages : 77 pages
Book Rating : 4.6/5 (56 download)

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Download or read book Canadian Culture and National Identity written by Jerry Diakiw and published by GRIN Verlag. This book was released on 2011-12 with total page 77 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Scholarly Essay from the year 2011 in the subject Cultural Studies - Canada, grade: -, York University, language: English, comment: Widely published articles on multiculturalism. Teaches at York University. Former school principal and school superintendent. Nominated for the York Presidents Teaching Award 2010, abstract: Many have argued that there is no such thing as a Canadian culture or identity. This article explores the history of how schools in the past have shaped a national identity and how cultures transmit their vaules and traditions to their young. This article argues that there are twelve commonplaces about Canada that all Canadians, regardless of where they live or how long they have lived here can identify with. The schools across the country have an obligation to debate, argue and explore these twelve commonplaces thereby promoting a shared Canadian culture that is fluid, flexible and evolving. It argues that these twelve are not fixed in stone but are just a starting point for "keeping the conversation going." It promotes a revisioning of our culture throiugh a myulticulturalism prism.

Quest Biographies Bundle — Books 21–30

Author : Julie H. Ferguson
Publisher : Dundurn
ISBN 13 : 1459724380
Total Pages : 2012 pages
Book Rating : 4.4/5 (597 download)

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Download or read book Quest Biographies Bundle — Books 21–30 written by Julie H. Ferguson and published by Dundurn. This book was released on 2013-12-06 with total page 2012 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Presenting ten titles in the Quest Biography series that profiles prominent figures in Canada’s history. The important Canadian lives detailed here are: painters Tom Thomson and James Wilson Morrice; explorer Vilhjalmur Stefansson; frontiersman Simon Girty; railway baron William C. Van Horne; early politicians George Simpson and James Douglas; revolutionary Metis leader Louis Riel; writer Robertson Davies; and early movie star Mary Pickford. Includes Louis Riel James Wilson Morrice Vilhjalmur Stefansson Robertson Davies James Douglas William C. Van Horne George Simpson Tom Thomson Simon Girty Mary Pickford

Quest Biographies Bundle — Books 21–25

Author : Julie H. Ferguson
Publisher : Dundurn
ISBN 13 : 145972433X
Total Pages : 1032 pages
Book Rating : 4.4/5 (597 download)

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Download or read book Quest Biographies Bundle — Books 21–25 written by Julie H. Ferguson and published by Dundurn. This book was released on 2013-11-13 with total page 1032 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Presenting five titles in the Quest Biography series that profiles prominent figures in Canada’s history. The important Canadian lives detailed here are: firebrand Metis leader Louis Riel; landscape painter James Wilson Morrice; Arctic explorer and ethnologist Vilhjalmur Stefansson; revered novelist Robertson Davies; and the “Father of British Columbia,” James Douglas. Includes Louis Riel James Wilson Morrice Vilhjalmur Stefansson Robertson Davies James Douglas

Nation's Navy

Author : Michael L. Hadley
Publisher : McGill-Queen's Press - MQUP
ISBN 13 : 0773566309
Total Pages : 495 pages
Book Rating : 4.7/5 (735 download)

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Book Synopsis Nation's Navy by : Michael L. Hadley

Download or read book Nation's Navy written by Michael L. Hadley and published by McGill-Queen's Press - MQUP. This book was released on 1992-01-03 with total page 495 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: A collection of incisive essays emerging from the second Fleet Historical Conference in Halifax, Nova Scotia, A Nation's Navy documents for the first time the evolution of a distinctive Canadian naval identity. Contributors explore a wealth of pivotal issues: the popular perception of the Canadian navy, the navy as an instrument of national policy, the impact of various wars and conflicts, the navy as an expression of Canadian society, the distinctive role of women and the integration of francophone Canadians, and the future direction of Canadian naval policy. Contributors include Catherine E. Allan, Serge Bernier, Peter W. Cairns, Fred W. Crickard, Jan Drent, Richard H. Gimblett, William Glover, James Goldrick, Barry Gough, Michael L. Hadley, Peter T. Haydon, Michael A. Hennessy, James D. Kiras, William A. March, Doug M. McLean, Siobhan J. McNaught, Marc Milner, Bernard Ransom, Roger Sarty, Graeme R. Tweedie, Barbara Winters, and David Zimmerman.

Canadian Culture and National Identity

Author : Jerry Diakiw
Publisher : GRIN Verlag
ISBN 13 : 3656072299
Total Pages : 37 pages
Book Rating : 4.6/5 (56 download)

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Download or read book Canadian Culture and National Identity written by Jerry Diakiw and published by GRIN Verlag. This book was released on 2011-11-30 with total page 37 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Scientific Essay from the year 2011 in the subject Cultural Studies - Canada, York University, language: English, abstract: Many have argued that there is no such thing as a Canadian culture or identity. This article explores the history of how schools in the past have shaped a national identity and how cultures transmit their vaules and traditions to their young. This article argues that there are twelve commonplaces about Canada that all Canadians, regardless of where they live or how long they have lived here can identify with. The schools across the country have an obligation to debate, argue and explore these twelve commonplaces thereby promoting a shared Canadian culture that is fluid, flexible and evolving. It argues that these twelve are not fixed in stone but are just a starting point for "keeping the conversation going". It promotes a revisioning of our culture throiugh a myulticulturalism prism.

Canadian Gothic

Author : Cynthia Sugars
Publisher : University of Wales Press
ISBN 13 : 1783160004
Total Pages : 305 pages
Book Rating : 4.7/5 (831 download)

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Download or read book Canadian Gothic written by Cynthia Sugars and published by University of Wales Press. This book was released on 2014-01-15 with total page 305 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This book explores the Gothic tradition in Canadian literature by tracing a distinctive reworking of the British Gothic in Canada. It traces the ways the Gothic genre was reinvented for a specifically Canadian context. On the one hand, Canadian writers expressed anxiety about the applicability of the British Gothic tradition to the colonies; on the other, they turned to the Gothic for its vitalising rather than unsettling potential. After charting this history of Gothic infusion, Canadian Gothic turns its attention to the body of Aboriginal and diasporic writings that respond to this discourse of national self-invention from a post-colonial perspective. These counter-narratives unsettle the naturalising force of this invented history, rendering the sense of Gothic comfort newly strange. The Canadian Gothic tradition has thus been a conflicted one, which reimagines the Gothic as a form of cultural sustenance. This volume offers an important reconsideration of the Gothic legacy in Canada.

Literary History of Canada

Author : Carl F. Klinck
Publisher : University of Toronto Press
ISBN 13 : 1487590997
Total Pages : 406 pages
Book Rating : 4.4/5 (875 download)

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Download or read book Literary History of Canada written by Carl F. Klinck and published by University of Toronto Press. This book was released on 1976-12-15 with total page 406 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Hailed as a landmark in Canadian literary scholarship when it was originally published in 1965, the Literary History of Canada is now being reissued, revised and enlarged, in three volumes. This major effort of a large group of scholars working in the field of English-language Canadian literature provides a comprehensive, up-to-date reference work. It has already proven itself invaluable as a source of information on authors, genres, and literary trends and influences. It represents a positive attempt to give a history of Canada in terms of writings which deserve attention because of significant thought, form, and use of language. Volume 3 has been newly written for this edition of the History, and covers the years from about 1960 to 1974. The contributors to this volume are Claude Bissell, Desmond Pacey, Lauriat Lane, jr, Michael S. Cross, Thomas A. Goudge, John Webster Grant, John H. Chapman, William E. Swinton, Henry B. Mayo, Malcolm Ross, Brandon Conron, Clara Thomas, Sheila A. Egoff, John Ripley, William H. New, George Woodcock, and Northrop Frye.

Encyclopedia of World Biography

Author :
Publisher :
ISBN 13 :
Total Pages : 632 pages
Book Rating : 4.3/5 (243 download)

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Download or read book Encyclopedia of World Biography written by and published by . This book was released on 1992 with total page 632 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: 6 volume supplement (numbered 13-18) to: McGraw-Hill encyclopedia of world biography published in 1973 by McGraw-Hill; covering people of the 20th century and including a study guide and index (vol. 16)

Blackness and Modernity

Author : Cecil Foster
Publisher : McGill-Queen's Press - MQUP
ISBN 13 : 0773575812
Total Pages : 656 pages
Book Rating : 4.7/5 (735 download)

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Book Synopsis Blackness and Modernity by : Cecil Foster

Download or read book Blackness and Modernity written by Cecil Foster and published by McGill-Queen's Press - MQUP. This book was released on 2007-05-28 with total page 656 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: In Blackness and Modernity Foster traces the main philosophical, anthropological, sociological, and mythological arguments that support views of modernity as a failed quest for whiteness. He outlines how these views were implemented as part of a "world history" and shows how Canada became the first country to officially reject this approach by adopting multiculturalism.

Regionalism and National Identity

Author : Reginald Berry
Publisher : Christchurch, N.Z. : Association for Canadian Studies in Australia and New Zealand
ISBN 13 :
Total Pages : 608 pages
Book Rating : 4.X/5 (1 download)

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Book Synopsis Regionalism and National Identity by : Reginald Berry

Download or read book Regionalism and National Identity written by Reginald Berry and published by Christchurch, N.Z. : Association for Canadian Studies in Australia and New Zealand. This book was released on 1985 with total page 608 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:

A History of Canadian Literature

Author : W.H. New
Publisher : McGill-Queen's Press - MQUP
ISBN 13 : 0773571361
Total Pages : 487 pages
Book Rating : 4.7/5 (735 download)

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Book Synopsis A History of Canadian Literature by : W.H. New

Download or read book A History of Canadian Literature written by W.H. New and published by McGill-Queen's Press - MQUP. This book was released on 2003-08-06 with total page 487 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: New offers an unconventionally structured overview of Canadian literature, from Native American mythologies to contemporary texts. Publishers Weekly A History of Canadian Literature looks at the work of writers and the social and cultural contexts that helped shape their preoccupations and direct their choice of literary form. W.H. New explains how - from early records of oral tales to the writing strategies of the early twenty-first century - writer, reader, literature, and society are interrelated. New discusses both Aboriginal and European mythologies, looking at pre-Contact narratives and also at the way Contact experience altered hierarchies of literary value. He then considers representations of the "real," whether in documentary, fantasy, or satire; historical romance and the social construction of Nature and State; and ironic subversions of power, the politics of cultural form, and the relevance of the media to a representation of community standard and individual voice. New suggests some ways in which writers of the later twentieth century codified such issues as history, gender, ethnicity, and literary technique itself. In this second edition, he adds a lengthy chapter that considers how writers at the turn of the twenty-first century have reimagined their society and their roles within it, and an expanded chronology and bibliography. Some of these writers have spoken from and about various social margins (dealing with issues of race, status, ethnicity, and sexuality), some have sought emotional understanding through strategies of history and memory, some have addressed environmental concerns, and some have reconstructed the world by writing across genres and across different media. All genres are represented, with examples chosen primarily, but not exclusively, from anglophone and francophone texts. A chronology, plates, and a series of tables supplement the commentary.