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Record Nr.

UNINA9910138900203321

Autore

Staines David

Titolo

Stephen Leacock : A Reappraisal / / edited and with an introduction by David Staines

Pubbl/distr/stampa

University of Ottawa Press / Les Presses de l’Université d’Ottawa, 1986

[Ottawa] : , : University of Ottawa Press, , 1986

©1986

ISBN

0-7766-2700-7

0-7766-1694-3

Edizione

[1st ed.]

Descrizione fisica

1 online resource (152 pages)

Collana

Re-appraisals, Canadian writers ; ; 12

Altri autori (Persone)

StainesDavid <1946->

Disciplina

818/.5209

Soggetti

Literary essays

Electronic books.

Canada In literature Congresses

Lingua di pubblicazione

Inglese

Formato

Materiale a stampa

Livello bibliografico

Monografia

Note generali

"Originated in the Leacock Symposium, which was held under the auspices of the Department of English at the University of Ottawa on April 26-27, 1985"--P. 2.

Nota di bibliografia

Bibliography: p. 161-170.

"Stephen Leacock: the writer and his writings": p. 133-160.

Nota di contenuto

Intro -- Contents -- Introduction -- Riding Off in All Directions: A Few Wild Words in Search of Stephen Leacock -- Leacock and Leahen: The Feminine Influence on Stephen Leacock -- Leacock and Understanding Canada -- Leacock and the Media -- The Historical Leacock -- Stephen Leacock, Economist: An Owl Among the Parrots -- Imperial Cosmopolitanism, or the Partly Solved Riddle of Leacock's Multi-National Persona -- Stephen Leacock, Humorist: American by Association -- Religion and Romance in Mariposa -- The Roads Back: Sunshine Sketches of a Little Town and George Elliott's The Kissing Man -- Untestable Inferences: Post-Structuralism and Leacock's Achievement in Sunshine Sketches of a Little Town -- The Achievement of Stephen Leacock -- Stephen Leacock: The Writer and His Writings -- Notes -- Contributors.

Sommario/riassunto

This collection of essays explores the many dimensions of the writings of Stephen Leacock, the well-loved Canadian author of Sunshine



Sketches of a Little Town.