Author: Margaret Laurence
Publisher: University of Alberta
ISBN: 9780888643322
Category : Literary Criticism
Languages : en
Pages : 340
Book Description
Up-to-date biographies with a list of works for each of the writers, detailed annotations to the original text and a glossary complete this edition."--BOOK JACKET.
Long Drums & Cannons
Author: Margaret Laurence
Publisher: University of Alberta
ISBN: 9780888643322
Category : Literary Criticism
Languages : en
Pages : 340
Book Description
Up-to-date biographies with a list of works for each of the writers, detailed annotations to the original text and a glossary complete this edition."--BOOK JACKET.
Publisher: University of Alberta
ISBN: 9780888643322
Category : Literary Criticism
Languages : en
Pages : 340
Book Description
Up-to-date biographies with a list of works for each of the writers, detailed annotations to the original text and a glossary complete this edition."--BOOK JACKET.
Heart of a Stranger
Author: Margaret Laurence
Publisher: University of Alberta
ISBN: 9780888644077
Category : Biography & Autobiography
Languages : en
Pages : 284
Book Description
Travel was closely connected to Margaret Laurence’s creativity. Laurence realized that her travels, especially to Africa, provided her with new perspectives on Canada. Heart of a Stranger, originally published in 1976, is a fascinating travelogue chronicling Laurence's geographical journeys to many lands and historic places. She notes "I saw, somewhat to my surprise, that they are all, in one way or another, travel articles. And by travel, I mean both those voyages which are outer and those voyages which are inner." Laurence writes about her travels to Egypt in "Good Morning to the Grandson of Ramesses the Second," to Scotland in "Road from the Isles," and to Greece in "Sayonara, Agamemnon." In "The Very Best Intentions" Laurence sees herself as a "stranger in a strange land" in Ghana. She reflects on the many places she lived in "Put Out One or Two More Flags," "Down East," "The Shack" and "Where the World Began." Professor Nora Foster Stovel’s new introduction "Heart of a Traveller" explores how Laurence’s experiences in other lands influenced and shaped her writing. She contends that "Heart of a Stranger constitutes a concealed autobiography, for, in chronicling her literal life journey, Laurence also reveals her spiritual odyssey."
Publisher: University of Alberta
ISBN: 9780888644077
Category : Biography & Autobiography
Languages : en
Pages : 284
Book Description
Travel was closely connected to Margaret Laurence’s creativity. Laurence realized that her travels, especially to Africa, provided her with new perspectives on Canada. Heart of a Stranger, originally published in 1976, is a fascinating travelogue chronicling Laurence's geographical journeys to many lands and historic places. She notes "I saw, somewhat to my surprise, that they are all, in one way or another, travel articles. And by travel, I mean both those voyages which are outer and those voyages which are inner." Laurence writes about her travels to Egypt in "Good Morning to the Grandson of Ramesses the Second," to Scotland in "Road from the Isles," and to Greece in "Sayonara, Agamemnon." In "The Very Best Intentions" Laurence sees herself as a "stranger in a strange land" in Ghana. She reflects on the many places she lived in "Put Out One or Two More Flags," "Down East," "The Shack" and "Where the World Began." Professor Nora Foster Stovel’s new introduction "Heart of a Traveller" explores how Laurence’s experiences in other lands influenced and shaped her writing. She contends that "Heart of a Stranger constitutes a concealed autobiography, for, in chronicling her literal life journey, Laurence also reveals her spiritual odyssey."
Critical Approaches to the Fiction of Margaret Laurence
Author: C.E. Nicholson
Publisher: Springer
ISBN: 1349100927
Category : Fiction
Languages : en
Pages : 270
Book Description
The essays collected in this volume offer a range of different approaches to the significance of the work of Margaret Laurence, historical, feminist, descriptive and thematic, in which critics from Europe, America and Canada offer assessments of this 20th century novelist.
Publisher: Springer
ISBN: 1349100927
Category : Fiction
Languages : en
Pages : 270
Book Description
The essays collected in this volume offer a range of different approaches to the significance of the work of Margaret Laurence, historical, feminist, descriptive and thematic, in which critics from Europe, America and Canada offer assessments of this 20th century novelist.
Divining Margaret Laurence
Author: Nora Foster Stovel
Publisher: McGill-Queen's Press - MQUP
ISBN: 0773533761
Category : Literary Collections
Languages : en
Pages : 430
Book Description
The most complete consideration of all the major writings of Margaret Laurence.
Publisher: McGill-Queen's Press - MQUP
ISBN: 0773533761
Category : Literary Collections
Languages : en
Pages : 430
Book Description
The most complete consideration of all the major writings of Margaret Laurence.
Africa in Narratives
Author: Chin Ce
Publisher: African Books Collective
ISBN: 9783603698
Category : Literary Criticism
Languages : en
Pages : 196
Book Description
Africa in Narratives illuminates or proves, against the backdrop of attitudes toward nations deemed ethnic or minorities, that literature in Africa can live up to the challenge of aesthetic imagination to form an active, refreshing part of world cultural discourse. African countries have evolved imaginatively beyond their present ephemeral stages of social and political turmoil not to talk of intellectual imitations of western thought, nation literatures should be subject to the imperative of a continental cooperation.
Publisher: African Books Collective
ISBN: 9783603698
Category : Literary Criticism
Languages : en
Pages : 196
Book Description
Africa in Narratives illuminates or proves, against the backdrop of attitudes toward nations deemed ethnic or minorities, that literature in Africa can live up to the challenge of aesthetic imagination to form an active, refreshing part of world cultural discourse. African countries have evolved imaginatively beyond their present ephemeral stages of social and political turmoil not to talk of intellectual imitations of western thought, nation literatures should be subject to the imperative of a continental cooperation.
Commonwealth Literature
Author: NA NA
Publisher: Springer
ISBN: 1349861014
Category : Literary Criticism
Languages : en
Pages : 287
Book Description
Publisher: Springer
ISBN: 1349861014
Category : Literary Criticism
Languages : en
Pages : 287
Book Description
Challenging Territory
Author: Christian Riegel
Publisher: University of Alberta
ISBN: 9780888642899
Category : Law
Languages : en
Pages : 296
Book Description
In a postmodern and postcolonial age, how do we approach the writing of Margaret Laurence? Challenging Territory demands of the reader a re-evaluation of the basic assumptions that underlie their understanding of Laurence's life and writing by addressing the full range of her writing. Laurence is presented as Canadian, colonial and postcolonial subject; as feminist, humanist and political active individual; and as essayist, translator, journalist, memoir writer and fiction writer. The essays stake out a critical territory as well as offer a challenge to territory previously mapped by the criticism - in addition to charting critical space never before traced.
Publisher: University of Alberta
ISBN: 9780888642899
Category : Law
Languages : en
Pages : 296
Book Description
In a postmodern and postcolonial age, how do we approach the writing of Margaret Laurence? Challenging Territory demands of the reader a re-evaluation of the basic assumptions that underlie their understanding of Laurence's life and writing by addressing the full range of her writing. Laurence is presented as Canadian, colonial and postcolonial subject; as feminist, humanist and political active individual; and as essayist, translator, journalist, memoir writer and fiction writer. The essays stake out a critical territory as well as offer a challenge to territory previously mapped by the criticism - in addition to charting critical space never before traced.
Reclaiming the Human Sciences and Humanities Through African Perspectives
Author: Helen Lauer
Publisher: African Books Collective
ISBN: 9988647719
Category : History
Languages : en
Pages : 740
Book Description
This compilation was inspired by an international symposium held on the Legon campus in September 2003. Hosted by the CODESRIA African Humanities Institute Programme, the symposium had the theme 'Canonical Works and Continuing Innovation in African Arts & Humanities'.
Publisher: African Books Collective
ISBN: 9988647719
Category : History
Languages : en
Pages : 740
Book Description
This compilation was inspired by an international symposium held on the Legon campus in September 2003. Hosted by the CODESRIA African Humanities Institute Programme, the symposium had the theme 'Canonical Works and Continuing Innovation in African Arts & Humanities'.
The Life Of Margaret Laurence
Author: James King
Publisher: Vintage Canada
ISBN: 0307367215
Category : Biography & Autobiography
Languages : en
Pages : 573
Book Description
The magnificent and long-awaited biography of the beloved writer who gave us the Manawaka novels, including The Diviners and The Stone Angel.
Publisher: Vintage Canada
ISBN: 0307367215
Category : Biography & Autobiography
Languages : en
Pages : 573
Book Description
The magnificent and long-awaited biography of the beloved writer who gave us the Manawaka novels, including The Diviners and The Stone Angel.
Margaret Laurence and Jack McClelland, Letters
Author: Laura K. Davis
Publisher: University of Alberta
ISBN: 1772123935
Category : Literary Collections
Languages : en
Pages : 697
Book Description
Margaret Laurence and Jack McClelland—one of Canada’s most beloved writers and one of Canada’s most significant publishers—enjoyed an unusual rapport. In this collection of annotated letters, readers gain rare insight into the private side of these literary icons. Their correspondence reveals a professional relationship that evolved into deep friendship over a period of enormous cultural change. Both were committed to the idea of Canadian writing; in a very real sense, their mutual and separate work helped bring “Canadian Literature” into being. With its insider’s view of the book business from the late 1950s to the mid-1980s, Margaret Laurence and Jack McClelland, Letters presents a valuable piece of Canadian literary history curated and annotated by Davis and Morra. This is essential reading for all those interested in Canada’s literary culture.
Publisher: University of Alberta
ISBN: 1772123935
Category : Literary Collections
Languages : en
Pages : 697
Book Description
Margaret Laurence and Jack McClelland—one of Canada’s most beloved writers and one of Canada’s most significant publishers—enjoyed an unusual rapport. In this collection of annotated letters, readers gain rare insight into the private side of these literary icons. Their correspondence reveals a professional relationship that evolved into deep friendship over a period of enormous cultural change. Both were committed to the idea of Canadian writing; in a very real sense, their mutual and separate work helped bring “Canadian Literature” into being. With its insider’s view of the book business from the late 1950s to the mid-1980s, Margaret Laurence and Jack McClelland, Letters presents a valuable piece of Canadian literary history curated and annotated by Davis and Morra. This is essential reading for all those interested in Canada’s literary culture.