UID:
almafu_9961988069902883
Umfang:
1 online resource (236 pages)
ISBN:
9781487590383
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1487590385
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9781487599775
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1487599773
Serie:
Heritage
Inhalt:
John Richardson was Canada's first native-born poet-novelist and 'The Father of Canadian Literature'. Michael Hurley offers the first detailed account of Richardson's fiction rather than of his life or sociological importance.
Anmerkung:
Includes index.
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Cover -- Contents -- ACKNOWLEDGMENTS -- 1 Introduction: The Borderline Case of Major John Richardson, Ex-centric -- 2 Wacousta: 'Break Boundaries' -- Circles and Squares -- Border Blur -- An Ear for an Eye -- 'Break Boundaries': Exchanging Identity -- 3 Border Doubles: Twin Poles of the Canadian Psyche -- Spiralling Repetition and Replay -- The Struggle-of-Brothers Theme -- Wacousta: Poseidon and The Wild Man -- Governor de Haldimar: 'Moral Monster' and Establishment Manticore -- Addiction to Perfection
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Of Shadow Kings, Dark Fathers, and Father-Hungry Sons: Zeus and the Patriarchy4 The Canadian Brothers: Narcissus and Circe on the Border River -- Gorgons and Vampires -- Through the Looking-Glass -- Narcissus -- Polyphemus -- The Temple of Doom: Circles and Squares Revisited -- Ascent -- Constructing and Deconstructing National Epics: Scott, Cooper, and Richardson -- 5 The Shadow Cast by Southern Ontario Gothic -- The Ungrateful Dead: Southwestern Ontario Senex and Mort-Vivants Figures -- Native Canadian Gothic: Wacousta as Trickster, 'The Enemy of Boundaries'
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More Gothic Outlaws and Border Wolves6 No End in Sight: Seeing Double Hooks, Haunted by No Lack of Ghosts ... and Making Richardson Safe -- NOTES -- INDEX -- A -- B -- C -- D -- E -- F -- G -- H -- I -- J -- K -- L -- M -- N -- O -- P -- R -- S -- T -- V -- W
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In English.
Weitere Ausg.:
ISBN 9780802069405
Weitere Ausg.:
ISBN 0802069401
Sprache:
Englisch
Schlagwort(e):
Criticism, interpretation, etc.
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Electronic books.
DOI:
10.3138/9781487599775
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