Title Discoveries of the Other : Alterity in the Work of Leonard Cohen, Hubert Aquin, Michael Ondaatje, and Nicole Brossard

Published Toronto : University of Toronto Press, 1994

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Description 1 online resource (268 pages) Contents Intro -- Contents -- Acknowledgments -- 1 Introduction: Discoveries of the Other -- 2 Hailed by Koan: Leonard Cohen and the Aesthetics of Loss -- Poet, Priest, and Prophet: Community and the Production of the Other -- Praying for Translation: Beautiful Losers and the Revenge of Names -- 3 Hubert Aquin: Language and Legitimation -- An Other('s) Eye -- An Other('s) Past -- Language, Legitimation, Representation -- Alterity, AlterNation, AlterNative: Symmetry and Rupture in Prochain Episode and Trou de mémoire -- Prochain Episode and the Originality of the Other: A Battle of Symmetries? -- The F(l)ight of Reason: Trou de mémoire -- 4 'Scared by the Company of the Mirror': Temptations of Identity and Limits of Control in the Work of Michael Ondaatje -- 'Governed by Fears of Certainty' -- Sonographs of a Star in the Mirror: 'Author and Hero' in Coming Through Slaughter -- Enacting Metaphor: Running in the Family -- 'Lights': Oral History and the Writing of the Other in In the Skin of a Lion -- 5 The Visibility of the Utopian Form in the Work of Nicole Brossard -- 'Ainsi qu'un rêve polysémique': Writing the Virtual Other between Women -- 'En bordure de la langue': Picture theory -- 6 Conclusion: A Will to Metamorphosis -- Notes -- Bibliography -- General Index -- A -- B -- C -- D -- E -- F -- G -- H -- I -- J -- K -- L -- M -- N -- O -- P -- Q -- R -- S -- T -- U -- V -- W -- Index of Names -- A -- B -- C -- D -- E -- F -- G -- H -- I -- J -- K -- L -- M -- N -- O -- P -- R -- S -- T -- W Summary Winfried Siemerling examines alterity in the work of four innovative postmodern authors, exploring self and other as textual figures of the unknown Notes Print version record Subject Cohen, Leonard, 1934-2016 -- Criticism and interpretation Aquin, Hubert, 1929-1977 -- Criticism and interpretation Ondaatje, Michael, 1943- -- Criticism and interpretation Brossard, Nicole -- Criticism and interpretation SUBJECT Aquin, Hubert, 1929-1977 fast Brossard, Nicole fast Cohen, Leonard, 1934-2016 fast Ondaatje, Michael, 1943- fast Subject Canadian fiction -- 20th century -- History and criticism French-Canadian literature -- 20th century -- History and criticism Canadian literature -- Psychological aspects Difference (Psychology) in literature. Postmodernism (Literature) -- Canada Outsiders in literature. Self in literature. Noncitizens in literature. Strangers in literature. Strangers in literature Noncitizens in literature Canadian fiction Canadian literature -- Psychological aspects Difference (Psychology) in literature French-Canadian literature Outsiders in literature Postmodernism (Literature) Self in literature Canada Kanada Französisch. Englisch. Genre/Form Criticism, interpretation, etc. Form Electronic book ISBN 9781442683907 1442683902

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