Description |
vii, 126 pages ; 23 cm |
Series |
Clarendon lectures in English literature ; 1991 |
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Clarendon lectures in English literature ; 1991
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Contents |
1. Concerning Franklin and his Gallant Crew -- 2. The Grey Owl Syndrome -- 3. Eyes of Blood, Heart of Ice: The Wendigo -- 4. Linoleum Caves |
Summary |
Strange Things explores a part of the imaginative landscape of one of the most esteemed and popular of contemporary writers, Margaret Atwood. Atwood's witty and informative book focuses on the imaginative mystique of the wilderness of the Canadian North. She discusses the 'Grey Owl Syndrome' of white writers going native; the folklore arising from the mysterious - and disastrousFranklin expedition of the nineteenth century; the myth of the dreaded snow monster, the Wendigo; the relations between nature writing and new forms of Gothic; and how a fresh generation of women writers in Canada have adapted the imagery of the Canadian North for the exploration of contemporary themes of gender, the family, and sexuality. Writers discussed include Robert Service, Robertson Davies, Alice Munro, E. J. Pratt, Marian Engel, Margaret Laurence, and Gwendolyn MacEwan |
Notes |
Includes index |
Bibliography |
Bibliography: pages 117-120 |
Subject |
Besant, Leonie -- Exhibitions
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Jam Factory Craft & Design Centre -- Exhibitions
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Jam Factory Craft and Design Centre (Adelaide, S. Aust.) -- Exhibitions
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Canadian literature -- History and criticism.
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Gcthic revival (Literature) -- Canada
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Good and evil in literature.
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Gothic revival (Literature) -- Canada.
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Horror tales, Canadian -- History and criticism.
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Myth in literature.
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National characteristics, Canadian, in literature.
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Nature in literature.
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Tapestry -- Australia -- Exhibitions.
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Wilderness areas in literature.
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SUBJECT |
Canada, Northern http://id.loc.gov/authorities/subjects/sh85019363 -- In literature.
http://id.loc.gov/authorities/subjects/sh2002011414
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Genre/Form |
Exhibition catalogs.
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Author |
Besant, Leonie
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Jam Factory Craft and Design Centre (Adelaide, S. Aust.)
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LC no. |
95036179 |
ISBN |
0198119763 |
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0646196898 |
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