Author: Stan DraglandPublisher:
ISBN:
Category : Literary Criticism
Languages : en
Pages : 252
Book Description
Approaches to the Work of James Reaney
Author: Stan DraglandPublisher:
ISBN:
Category : Literary Criticism
Languages : en
Pages : 252
Book Description
James Reaney on the Grid
Author: Stan DraglandPublisher: The Porcupine's Quill
ISBN: 0889844534
Category : Literary Criticism
Languages : en
Pages : 324
Book Description
‘Set up a trellis for flowering plants to climb all over: it’s there but unseen, supporting all that floral leaf-green beauty.’ In James Reaney on the Grid, Stan Dragland examines an artist fiercely loyal to his artistic practice, deploying the metaphor of the grid to explore the inherited literary patterns and archetypes underpinning works of London poet, playwright and educator James Reaney. With extensive references to Reaney’s considerable oeuvre (from early publications such as A Suit of Nettles and The Box Social to what is arguably his master work, The Donnellys), and to an eclectic collection of theorists, artists and contemporaries whose ideas inform and respond to Reaney’s, Dragland seeks to reveal not only what Reaney’s work is about but also what it does. In so doing, he takes readers by the hand in a surprisingly personal ramble through the processes and productions of one of Southern Ontario’s most influential writers.
The Emblems of James Reaney
Author: Thomas GerryPublisher: The Porcupine's Quill
ISBN: 0889843589
Category : Literary Criticism
Languages : en
Pages : 204
Book Description
The literary emblem can trace its roots back to sixteenth-century English collections, which sought to reconcile classical philosophy with Christian doctrine. Consisting of images and verses, emblems challenged readers to use their wit and knowledge to deduce the connection between the visual and the textual. In The Emblems of James Reaney, former Reaney student and professor Thomas Gerry draws on his own considerable wit and knowledge to help readers understand the myth, mystery and meaning behind ten literary emblems, published in 1972 as ?Two Chapters from an Emblem Book? by poet, playwright and painter James Reaney. Gerry conducts an exhaustive investigation of the ?magnetic arrangement? that links each emblem with some of Reaney?s best-known fiction, poetry, drama and painting. His detailed analysis of the visual and verbal aspects of each emblem draws on alchemy, biblical mythology and Haitian voodoo. By referring to the influence and inspiration that Reaney drew from William Blake, Edmund Spenser, Northrop Frye and Carl Jung, Gerry reveals the overall cycle of meaning behind the emblems and shows how Reaney marries the opposing concepts of art and experience into a unified artistic vision. The Emblems of James Reaney presents a fascinating organizational scheme within which to study some of Reaney?s most beloved works, encouraging readers to frolic in the playbox of Reaney?s imagination and to revisit his work – and Canadian literature – with new eyes.
Reader's Guide to Literature in English
Author: Mark Hawkins-DadyPublisher: Routledge
ISBN: 1135314179
Category : Reference
Languages : en
Pages : 1024
Book Description
Reader's Guide Literature in English provides expert guidance to, and critical analysis of, the vast number of books available within the subject of English literature, from Anglo-Saxon times to the current American, British and Commonwealth scene. It is designed to help students, teachers and librarians choose the most appropriate books for research and study.
Before the Country
Author: Stephanie McKenziePublisher: University of Toronto Press
ISBN: 0802094465
Category : Literary Criticism
Languages : en
Pages : 249
Book Description
In the context of Northrop Frye's theories of myth, and in light of the attempts of social critics and early anthologists to define Canada and Canadian literature, McKenzie discusses the ways in which our decidedly fractured sense of literary nationalism has set indigenous culture apart from the mainstream.
Buried Astrolabe
Author: Craig S. WalkerPublisher: McGill-Queen's Press - MQUP
ISBN: 077356859X
Category : Drama
Languages : en
Pages : 480
Book Description
Craig Walker devotes the main body of his work to critical readings of James Reaney, Michael Cook, Sharon Pollock, Michel Tremblay, George F. Walker, and Judith Thompson, respecting the distinctive elements of the writer's voice while helping the reader appreciate the cultural context that informs each play. He analyses the poetics or mythological underpinning of the works and investigates the cultural significance of the tropes that typify their works. The Buried Astrolabe stakes the claim of Canadian playwrights to be considered among the most important in the contemporary world.
New Contexts of Canadian Criticism
Author: Ajay HeblePublisher: Broadview Press
ISBN: 9781551111063
Category : Literary Criticism
Languages : en
Pages : 428
Book Description
Times change, lives change, and the terms we need to describe our literature or society or condition—what Raymond Williams calls “keywords”—change with them. Perhaps the most significant development in the quarter-century since Eli Mandel edited his anthology Contexts of Canadian Criticism has been the growing recognition that not only do different people need different terms, but the same terms have different meanings for different people and in different contexts. Nation, history, culture, art, identity—the positions we take discussing these and other issues can lead to conflict, but also hold the promise of a new sort of community. Speaking of First Nations people and their literature, Beth Brant observes that “Our connections … are like the threads of a weaving. … While the colour and beauty of each thread is unique and important, together they make a communal material of strength and durability.” New Contexts of Canadian Criticism is designed to be read, to work, in much the same manner.
You Can’t Get There From Here
Author: Ryan PorterPublisher: University of Toronto Press
ISBN: 1487519753
Category : Literary Criticism
Languages : en
Pages : 225
Book Description
Rather than reading small-town representations in Canadian literature as portraits of a parochial past or a lost golden age, this book claims that they are best understood as sophisticated statements on the effects of modernity in an ever-more cosmopolitan world. In Ontario, as urbanization increased over the past century, small towns became a popular literary trope, and Ryan Porter argues that literary small towns are reflections, and even sublimated explorations, of contemporary life. Referencing the theories of heritage scholars, who view popularly understood pasts as constructions shaped by changing sensibilities, You Can’t Get There from Here argues that the literary small-town Ontario past is malleable, consisting of attempts to come to terms with the present in which the narrators find themselves. The book focuses on four key Ontario authors – Stephen Leacock, Robertson Davies, Alice Munro, and Jane Urquhart – as well as many secondary authors, and links the readings to much broader trends in actual Ontario towns and in popular culture.
That Art of Difference
Author: Manina JonesPublisher:
ISBN:
Category : Language Arts & Disciplines
Languages : en
Pages : 216
Book Description
Explores a new genre of fiction, drama and poetry that self-consciously takes nonfiction documents such as photographs, advertisements, newspapers, and historical manuscripts into the literary text. Examining a number of recent Canadian writers, shows how they recontextualize the documents in order to question the historical record and to show thei
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