The Tomorrow Tamer

Author : Margaret Laurence
Publisher : New Canadian Library
ISBN 13 : 0771046308
Total Pages : 278 pages
Book Rating : 4.08/5 ( download)

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Download or read book The Tomorrow-Tamer written by Margaret Laurence and published by New Canadian Library. This book was released on 2008-01-01 with total page 278 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: The ten stories gathered together in The Tomorrow-Tamer are Margaret Laurence’s first published fiction. Set in raucous and often terrifying Ghana, where shiny Jaguars and modern jazz jostle for eminence against fetish figures, tribal rites, and the unchanging beat of jungle drums, the stories tell of individuals, European and African, trying to come to terms with the frightening world brought about by the country’s new freedom. With the same compassion and understanding she would bring to her later fiction set in Canada, Laurence succeeds brilliantly in capturing the atmosphere of a continent and of individual men and women struggling for survival under the impact of the wind of change.

Author : Margaret Laurence
Publisher :
ISBN 13 :
Total Pages : pages
Book Rating : 4.48/5 ( download)

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Download or read book The Tomorrow-tamer written by Margaret Laurence and published by . This book was released on 1970 with total page pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:

Author : Margaret Laurence
Publisher : McClelland & Stewart
ISBN 13 : 077105775X
Total Pages : 266 pages
Book Rating : 4.55/5 ( download)

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Download or read book The Tomorrow-Tamer written by Margaret Laurence and published by McClelland & Stewart. This book was released on 2020-08-04 with total page 266 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: The ten stories gathered together in The Tomorrow-Tamer are Margaret Laurence’s first published fiction. Set in raucous and often terrifying Ghana, where shiny Jaguars and modern jazz jostle for eminence against fetish figures, tribal rites, and the unchanging beat of jungle drums, the stories tell of individuals, European and African, trying to come to terms with the frightening world brought about by the country’s new freedom. With the same compassion and understanding she would bring to her later fiction set in Canada, Laurence succeeds brilliantly in capturing the atmosphere of a continent and of individual men and women struggling for survival under the impact of the wind of change.

Author : Paul Comeau
Publisher : University of Alberta
ISBN 13 : 9780888644510
Total Pages : 220 pages
Book Rating : 4.15/5 ( download)

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Download or read book Margaret Laurence's Epic Imagination written by Paul Comeau and published by University of Alberta. This book was released on 2005-12-23 with total page 220 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Although at times painfully insecure about her creative ability and achievement, Margaret Laurence nevertheless remained fiercely loyal to her artistic vision, an archetypal vision of loss, exile and redemption that sought comprehensive expression in the epic mode that shapes the Bible, Dante's Divine Comedy, Milton's Paradise Lost, and ultimately the Manawaka world of Hagar Shipley, Rachel Cameron, Stacey MacAindra, and Morag Gunn. Paul Comeau traces the development of Margaret Laurence's epic voice from its tentative beginnings in her African fiction to its culmination in the epic Manawaka Cycle, a Dantesque journey through an infernal state of self-destructive pride, out of a purgatorial paralysis of self-doubt, and on to a kind of paradisal fulfillment in self-knowledge. Laurence discovered in epic a fitting mode at once to requite her debt to the ancestors and to break free of their influence to portray the world through the sight of her own eyes. In so doing, she became the enduring epic voice of a country and a generation.

Author : Margaret Laurence
Publisher :
ISBN 13 :
Total Pages : 243 pages
Book Rating : 4.61/5 ( download)

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Download or read book The Tomorrow-tamer written by Margaret Laurence and published by . This book was released on 1970 with total page 243 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:

Author : Terrence Craig
Publisher : Wilfrid Laurier Univ. Press
ISBN 13 : 0889209529
Total Pages : 176 pages
Book Rating : 4.27/5 ( download)

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Download or read book Racial Attitudes in English-Canadian Fiction, 1905-1980 written by Terrence Craig and published by Wilfrid Laurier Univ. Press. This book was released on 1987-08-31 with total page 176 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Examines stereotypes in Canadian literature reflecting both the racist view that Jews and other aliens could never become good "white" Canadians because of their inherent defects, and the belief that with time they could assimilate. Discusses the origins of ethnic tension in Canada. Up to 1939, English Canadian literature expressed the demand for British Protestant political and cultural dominance. The popular novelist Charles Gordon, a Presbyterian minister, viewed the British (especially the Scots) as the chosen race, and even when trying to present Jews sympathetically he treated them as stereotypes. John Murray Gibbon was violently antisemitic. F.P Grove saw the Jews as urban businessmen exploiting the peasant immigrants. After 1945 antisemitism became unfashionable. Works by Jews such as Mordecai Richler exposed anti-Jewish discrimination, and English Canadians produced works attacking antisemitism and racism.

Author : Margaret Laurence
Publisher : University of Alberta
ISBN 13 : 9780888643322
Total Pages : 340 pages
Book Rating : 4.22/5 ( download)

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Download or read book Long Drums & Cannons written by Margaret Laurence and published by University of Alberta. This book was released on 2001 with total page 340 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Up-to-date biographies with a list of works for each of the writers, detailed annotations to the original text and a glossary complete this edition."--BOOK JACKET.

Author : Christian Riegel
Publisher : University of Alberta
ISBN 13 : 9780888642899
Total Pages : 296 pages
Book Rating : 4.9X/5 ( download)

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Download or read book Challenging Territory written by Christian Riegel and published by University of Alberta. This book was released on 1997-05 with total page 296 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: In a postmodern and postcolonial age, how do we approach the writing of Margaret Laurence? Challenging Territory demands of the reader a re-evaluation of the basic assumptions that underlie their understanding of Laurence's life and writing by addressing the full range of her writing. Laurence is presented as Canadian, colonial and postcolonial subject; as feminist, humanist and political active individual; and as essayist, translator, journalist, memoir writer and fiction writer. The essays stake out a critical territory as well as offer a challenge to territory previously mapped by the criticism - in addition to charting critical space never before traced.

Author : John Moss
Publisher : Dundurn
ISBN 13 : 9780920053041
Total Pages : 212 pages
Book Rating : 4.41/5 ( download)

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Download or read book The Canadian Novel written by John Moss and published by Dundurn. This book was released on 1983-02 with total page 212 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: A collection of essays about contemporary Canadian novels by Margaret Atwood, Robertson Davies, Margaret Laurence, Alice Munro, Mordechai Richler, Rudy Weibe, as edited by professor of English at the University of Ottawa John Moss.

Author : Lyall Powers
Publisher : Univ. of Manitoba Press
ISBN 13 : 0887553117
Total Pages : 599 pages
Book Rating : 4.10/5 ( download)

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Download or read book Alien Heart written by Lyall Powers and published by Univ. of Manitoba Press. This book was released on 2012-11-02 with total page 599 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Today, almost two decades after her death, Margaret Laurence remains one of Canada's best-known and most beloved writers. Twice winner of the Governor General's Award for fiction, she was, as the late William French wrote, "more profoundly admired than any other Canadian novelist of her generation." Lyall Powers is both a respected scholar of literature and a lifelong friend of Laurence's, having met her when they were students together at Winnipeg's United College in the 1940s. Alien Heart is the first full-length biography of Margaret that combines personal knowledge and insights about Laurence with a study of her work, which often paralleled the events and concerns in her own life. Drawing on letters, personal correspondence, journals, and interviews, Lyall Powers discusses the struggles and triumphs Laurence experienced in her efforts to understand herself in the roles of writer, wife, mother, and public figure. He portrays a deeply compassionate and courageous woman, who yet felt troubled by conflicting demands. While Laurence's work is not directly autobiographical, Powers illustrates how her writing expressed many of the same dilemmas, and how the resolution her characters achieved in the novels and stories had an impact on Laurence's own life. Powers provides an in-depth analysis of all Laurence's work, including the early African essays, fiction, and translations, and her books for children, as well as the beloved Manawaka fiction. The study clearly shows the progression and expression of Laurence as a writer of great humanity and conscience.