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Total Pages : 536 pages
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Download or read book Essays on Canadian Writing written by and published by . This book was released on 1998 with total page 536 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Author : W. J. Keith
Publisher : The Porcupine's Quill
ISBN 13 : 9780889841215
Total Pages : 320 pages
Book Rating : 4.17/5 ( download)
Download or read book An Independent Stance written by W. J. Keith and published by The Porcupine's Quill. This book was released on 1991 with total page 320 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Part One of this strongly worded, informed, and wide-ranging collection examines key issues for the future of Canadian criticism. Part Two offers new readings of important works by Grove, Wilson, MacLennan, Davies, Laurence, Hood, Wiebe, Hodgins, and Atwood. As W.J. Keith argues, `We still have a mission: to have our literature recognized as an essential reflection of our national life. This is what I mean by retrenchment and consolidation. Literature can survive without literary criticism but it cannot survive if it is unknown and unread. It is criticism's prime function at the present time to see that it is both known and read with that mature enjoyment which is a combination of emotional sensitivity and humane intelligence. As critics, scholars, editors, we shall not be fulfilling our responsibilities or justifying our existence if we attempt anything less.' Or as Keith modestly observes in his introduction to this collection, `If this book is of any interest, it will be because Canadian literature is an important subject. Literary commentators like myself are middle-men, and should be prepared to admit the fact. If this book succeeds in helping readers to appreciate the works of Canadian writers that I discuss, and to derive increased pleasure and insight from them, it will have served its purpose. I can see no other justification for it -- or for any other work of criticism.'
Author : Susan Glickman
Publisher : McGill-Queen's Press - MQUP
ISBN 13 : 9780773521353
Total Pages : 234 pages
Book Rating : 4.56/5 ( download)
Download or read book The Picturesque and the Sublime written by Susan Glickman and published by McGill-Queen's Press - MQUP. This book was released on 2000 with total page 234 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Winner of the Gabrielle Roy Prize in English and the Raymond Klibansky Prize, The Picturesque and the Sublime is a cultural history of two hundred years of nature writing in Canada, from eighteenth-century prospect poems to contemporary encounters with landscape. Arguing against the received wisdom (made popular by Northrop Frye and Margaret Atwood) that Canadian writers view nature as hostile, Susan Glickman places Canadian literature in the English and European traditions of the sublime and the picturesque. Glickman argues that early immigrants to Canada brought with them the expectation that nature would be grand, mysterious, awesome – even terrifying – and welcomed scenes that conformed to these notions of sublimity. She contends that to interpret their descriptions of nature as "negative," as so many critics have done, is a significant misunderstanding. Glickman provides close readings of several important works, including Susanna Moodie's "Enthusiasm," Charles G.D. Roberts's Ave, and Paulette Jiles's "Song to the Rising Sun," and explores the poems in the context of theories of nature and art. Instead of projecting backward from a modernist perspective, Glickman reads forward from the discovery of landscape as a legitimate artistic subject in seventeenth-century England and argues that picturesque modes of description, and a sublime aesthetic, have governed much of the representation of nature in this country. Susan Glickman is a poet living in Toronto. She is the author of Complicity, The Power to Move, Henry Moore's Sheep and Other Poems, and Hide and Seek.
Author : K. Balachandran
Publisher : Sarup & Sons
ISBN 13 : 9788176253741
Total Pages : 190 pages
Book Rating : 4.4X/5 ( download)
Download or read book Critical Essays on Canadian Literature written by K. Balachandran and published by Sarup & Sons. This book was released on 2002-12-31 with total page 190 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Author : Joseph Pivato
Publisher : Guernica Editions
ISBN 13 : 9780920717356
Total Pages : 262 pages
Book Rating : 4.57/5 ( download)
Download or read book Contrasts written by Joseph Pivato and published by Guernica Editions. This book was released on 1991 with total page 262 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This historic collection, the first of its kind, is devoted to the discussion of Italian-Canadian writers publishing in English, in French or in Italian. These critical essays include analyses of some important writing: F.G. Paci's Black Madonna, the poetry of Mary di Michele and Pier Giorgio Di Cicco, the plays of Marco Micone, Gens du Silence and Addolorata, the novels of Maria Ardizzi and many other titles. The ten contributors make significant additions to the study of Canadian literature: D.C. Minni examines the short story; Alexandre Amprimoz and Sante Viselli consider Italian-Canadian poetry; Roberta Sciff-Zamaro analyses Black Madonna; Robert Billings fathoms di Michels's verse; Frank Paci considers the task of the novelist. Fulvio Caccia's essay on the literary languages of Quebec is controversial as are Filippo Salvatore's arguments on the writer and politics. Antonio D'Alfonso speculates on future developments among the more than one hundred Italian-Canadian writers. In addition to editing the collection, Joseph Pivato introduces the volume with a long essay on ethnic history and literary criticism in Canada, includes another essay on Italian-language writers and concludes with a detailed bibliography and an index.
Author : Frank Davey
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Total Pages : 218 pages
Book Rating : 4.05/5 ( download)
Download or read book Surviving the Paraphrase written by Frank Davey and published by . This book was released on 1983 with total page 218 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: The essays collected here have been written against the background of Davey's long and close intellectual engagement with the major critical issues of his day...(and) provide a clear sense of his very substantial contribution to contemporary criticism in Canada... To critical theory he has added his voice on behalf of post-modernist writing, and perhaps as clearly as any other writer has articulated the theory of post-moderism. He has given our criticism its contemporary voice, its sound and its rhythms, and to the mood of our most recent critical writing added his generous and welcoming spirit. A writer on the side of life, he has spoken for life and vitality as an active engaged spirit of our time.
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Total Pages : 245 pages
Book Rating : 4.64/5 ( download)
Download or read book Essays on Canadian Writing written by and published by . This book was released on 2002 with total page 245 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Author : Joanne Buckley
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ISBN 13 : 9780176503871
Total Pages : 304 pages
Book Rating : 4.70/5 ( download)
Download or read book Fit to Print written by Joanne Buckley and published by . This book was released on 2012 with total page 304 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Fit to Print is designed to be a brief, engaging text that covers all the basics of writing an essay in a scholarly environment. Going into its eighth edition, this text continues its tradition of teaching students how to organize and write an essay with attention to overcoming specific difficulties of grammar and style. Joanne Buckley believes there is not just a single framework for writing an essay; by taking a narrative approach, she recognizes the complexity of writing a paper, but does so in a way that is easy for students to understand and apply to their own writing.
Author : Philip Marchand
Publisher : The Porcupine's Quill
ISBN 13 : 9780889841963
Total Pages : 204 pages
Book Rating : 4.69/5 ( download)
Download or read book Ripostes written by Philip Marchand and published by The Porcupine's Quill. This book was released on 1998 with total page 204 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Ripostes is a collection of essays on some salient features of the Canadian literary landscape, a number of which were first published in the Toronto Star, many of which appear in these pages for the first time. Included are essays on Atwood, Findley, Ondaatje and Margaret Laurence, as well as thematic explorations of Canadian literature such as an account of the demise of the Survival school of Canadian writing, a look at the recent history of the Writers' Union of Canada, an examination of the role of fathers in Canadian fiction, a study of the strange attraction of many of our writers to the occult, and so on. The tone is considered, and critical rather than celebratory, although the essays are respectful of the genuine achievements of Canadian literature in the past few decades. They try to clear the air, as it were, of boosterism, political correctness, and other attitudes which hinder the appreciation and reception of good writing. This is an honest re-appraisal of Canadian literature, undertaken at a time when we need no longer be overcome with relief and euphoria over the fact that some of our authors are now world famous, or at least world famous in Hoboken, New Jersey.
Author : Katherine O. Acheson
Publisher : Broadview Press
ISBN 13 : 1551119927
Total Pages : 186 pages
Book Rating : 4.22/5 ( download)
Download or read book Writing Essays About Literature written by Katherine O. Acheson and published by Broadview Press. This book was released on 2010-12-20 with total page 186 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This book gives students an answer to the question, “What does my professor want from this essay?” In lively, direct language, it explains the process of creating “a clearly-written argument, based on evidence, about the meaning, power, or structure of a literary work.” Using a single poem by William Carlos Williams as the basis for the process of writing a paper about a piece of literature, it walks students through the processes of reading, brainstorming, researching secondary sources, gathering evidence, and composing and editing the paper. Writing Essays About Literature is designed to strengthen argumentation skills and deepen understanding of the relationships between the reader, the author, the text, and critical interpretations. Its lessons about clarity, precision, and the importance of providing evidence will have wide relevance for student writers.
