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Author Atwood, Margaret, 1939-

Title Strange things : the malevolent North in Canadian literature / Margaret Atwood
Published Oxford : Clarendon Press ; New York : Oxford University Press, 1995

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 MELB  817.6 A8875 A25/A  AVAILABLE
Description vii, 126 pages ; 23 cm
Series Clarendon lectures in English literature ; 1991
Clarendon lectures in English literature ; 1991
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
Jam Factory Craft & Design Centre -- Exhibitions
Jam Factory Craft and Design Centre (Adelaide, S. Aust.) -- Exhibitions
Canadian literature -- History and criticism.
Gcthic revival (Literature) -- Canada
Good and evil in literature.
Gothic revival (Literature) -- Canada.
Horror tales, Canadian -- History and criticism.
Myth in literature.
National characteristics, Canadian, in literature.
Nature in literature.
Tapestry -- Australia -- Exhibitions.
Wilderness areas in literature.
SUBJECT Canada, Northern http://id.loc.gov/authorities/subjects/sh85019363 -- In literature. http://id.loc.gov/authorities/subjects/sh2002011414
Genre/Form Exhibition catalogs.
Author Besant, Leonie
Jam Factory Craft and Design Centre (Adelaide, S. Aust.)
LC no. 95036179
ISBN 0198119763
0646196898