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[First edition]. |
| Description |
1 online resource (pages). |
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data file rda |
| Series |
Critical insights |
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Critical insights.
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| Note |
Edition statement supplied by publisher. |
| Bibliography |
Includes bibliographical references and index. |
| Note |
Print version record. |
| Contents |
Perceptions of contemporary Canadian fiction / Carol L. Beran -- A literary, sociocultural, and political timeline for Canada and the United States, 1960-2013 / Rita Ross -- Learning how to read in Atwood's MaddAddam / Sharon R. Wilson -- Cultural heroines and Canadian imaginaries : Evangeline and Anne / Rita Ross -- MacLeod's men / Shannon Hengen -- Race roulette : hierarchy, hypersexuality, and hyperbole in Marie-Célie Agnant's The book of Emma and Dany Laferriére's How to make love to a negro without getting tired / Holly L. Collins -- Margaret Atwood's comedy : the fat lady and the gendered body in Lady oracle / Charlotte Templin -- Alice Munro's 1994 "A wilderness station" : storytelling and retelling of historic, biblical, gothic, and Grimm stories / Judith McCombs -- Analogical structure in the novels of Jane Urquhart / Patricia Linton -- "By mistake" : Larry Weller as 'The stone guest' in Carol Shields' novel Larry's party / Nora Foster Stovel -- Listening and loving : reading Margaret Laurence's The diviners / Carol L. Beran -- Riding the waves : Aritha van Herk's Restlessness / Mary K. Kirtz -- Naming and becoming : finding love in the Klondike / Aritha van Herk -- Understanding a father's pain in Madeleine Thien's "Simple recipes" / Janice Fiamengo. |
| Summary |
This volume covers long and short fiction from 1970 through the present day. Fourteen critical essays examine the scope of Canadian identity from various walks of life, analyzing the works of such nationally and internationally renowned authors as Margaret Atwood, Alice Munro, Jane Urquhart, Lucy Maud Montgomery, Marie-Célie Agnant, Dany Laferrière, Carol Shields, Margaret Laurence, Aritha van Herk, and Madeleine Thien. |
| Subject |
Canadian fiction -- 20th century -- History and criticism.
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Canadian fiction -- 21st century -- History and criticism.
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Canada -- In literature.
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LITERARY CRITICISM / American / General.
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Canadian fiction. (OCoLC)fst00845101
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Literature. (OCoLC)fst00999953
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Canada. (OCoLC)fst01204310
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| Chronological Term |
1900-2099
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| Genre/Form |
Criticism, interpretation, etc. (OCoLC)fst01411635
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| Added Author |
Beran, Carol L., editor of compilation.
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| Other Form: |
Print version: Contemporary Canadian fiction. [First edition] 9781619254152 (OCoLC)892340542 |
| ISBN |
9781619254169 (electronic bk.) |
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1619254166 (electronic bk.) |
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