Author: EssaysPublisher:
ISBN:
Category :
Languages : en
Pages : 326
Book Description
Essays on Canadian Writing 9
Author: EssaysEssays on Canadian Writing
Author: ECW PressAn Independent Stance
Author: W. J. KeithPublisher: The Porcupine's Quill
ISBN: 9780889841215
Category : Literary Criticism
Languages : en
Pages : 320
Book Description
Part One of this strongly worded, informed, and wide-ranging collection examines key issues for the future of Canadian criticism. Part Two offers new readings of important works by Grove, Wilson, MacLennan, Davies, Laurence, Hood, Wiebe, Hodgins, and Atwood. As W.J. Keith argues, `We still have a mission: to have our literature recognized as an essential reflection of our national life. This is what I mean by retrenchment and consolidation. Literature can survive without literary criticism but it cannot survive if it is unknown and unread. It is criticism's prime function at the present time to see that it is both known and read with that mature enjoyment which is a combination of emotional sensitivity and humane intelligence. As critics, scholars, editors, we shall not be fulfilling our responsibilities or justifying our existence if we attempt anything less.' Or as Keith modestly observes in his introduction to this collection, `If this book is of any interest, it will be because Canadian literature is an important subject. Literary commentators like myself are middle-men, and should be prepared to admit the fact. If this book succeeds in helping readers to appreciate the works of Canadian writers that I discuss, and to derive increased pleasure and insight from them, it will have served its purpose. I can see no other justification for it -- or for any other work of criticism.'
Essays on Canadian Writing
Author: The Canadian Writer's Workplace, 9th Edition
Author: Gary LipschutzPublisher: Cengage Canada
ISBN: 0176831002
Category : Language Arts & Disciplines
Languages : en
Pages : 37
Book Description
The Canadian Writer’s Workplace, Ninth Canadian Edition, is an easy-to-use solution that aims to inspire and guide students on the road to achieving clarity in their writing. With this product, students develop paragraph- and essay-writing skills that are crucial for success in their post-secondary career and beyond. This is a three-in-one solution that includes a review of basic grammar and sentence skills, covers writing steps and strategies, and ends with a selection of readings. Available in a printed text format and as an ebook within MindTap, our online learning platform, everything your students need to build confidence in their written communication skills is between two covers!
Essays on Canadian Writing 18
Author: EssaysDivining Margaret Laurence
Author: Nora Foster StovelPublisher: McGill-Queen's Press - MQUP
ISBN: 0773575030
Category : Literary Collections
Languages : en
Pages : 429
Book Description
The most complete consideration of all the major writings of Margaret Laurence.
The Crafting of Chaos
Author: Hildegard KuesterPublisher: Rodopi
ISBN: 9789051837438
Category : Literary Criticism
Languages : en
Pages : 222
Book Description
In this study of the Canadian novelist Margaret Laurence, recent narratological models provide the theoretical framework for a textual analysis that aims at complementing previous thematic critiques. The chief focus is on The Stone Angel and The Diviners, which the conclusion then presents in the context of the other novels in Laurence's Manawaka cycle. Consideration of the published works is rounded off with genetic comparison of the novelist's typescript drafts and an evaluation of the manuscript notes kept in the archives of McMaster and York Universities. The central structural principle of The Stone Angel is its dovetailing of past and present scenes. Temporal arrangement, reflecting the frequency and duration of Hagar's memories, reveals the hold of memory over the central character and her attempts to suppress her fear of mortality. Hagar-as-narrator manipulates character-presentation and description to her own advantage. In a basically oppositional structure, her need for control is reflected in the neat ordering of the narrative. The verbal texture of the novel serves to establish a value system that insists on the superiority of imported culture over Western Canadian forms. The Diviners shares a number of narrative similarities with The Stone Angel, but the latter's formal rigidity has yielded, by the time Laurence writes her last novel, to the concept of multiplicity - characters, time planes, perspectives and narrative voices (including metafictional commentaries). Textual coherence is secured via narrative strategies (including typography, generational paradigms, repetition, parallelism, intertextuality, and tropological patterning) that render the novel readable and present experience as ordered in a time of cultural flux and personal crisis.
Essays on Canadian Writing
Author: Faith and Fiction
Author: Barbara PellPublisher: Wilfrid Laurier Univ. Press
ISBN: 0889206481
Category : Literary Criticism
Languages : en
Pages : 153
Book Description
Is it possible to write an artistically respectable and theoretically convincing religious novel in a non-religious age? Up to now, there has been no substantial application of theological criticism to the works of Hugh MacLennan and Morley Callaghan, the two most important Canadian novelists before 1960. Yet both were religious writers during the period when Canada entered the modern, non-religious era, and both greatly influenced the development of our literature. MacLennan’s journey from Calvinism to Christian existentialism is documented in his essays and seven novels, most fully in The Watch that Ends the Night. Callaghan’s fourteen novels are marked by tensions in his theology of Catholic humanism, with his later novels defining his theological themes in increasingly secular terms. This tension between narrative and metanarrative has produced both the artistic strengths and the moral ambiguities that characterize his work. Faith and Fiction: A Theological Critique of the Narrative Strategies of Hugh MacLennan and Morley Callaghan is a significant contribution to the relatively new field studying the relation between religion and literature in Canada.