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UNINA9910783631403321 |
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Titolo |
Canadian cultural poesis [[electronic resource] ] : essays on Canadian culture / / Garry Sherbert, Annie Gérin, and Sheila Petty, editors |
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Pubbl/distr/stampa |
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Waterloo, Ont., : Wilfrid Laurier University Press, 2005 |
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ISBN |
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1-280-37752-6 |
9786610377527 |
0-88920-910-3 |
1-4237-6108-1 |
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Descrizione fisica |
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1 online resource (541 p.) |
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Collana |
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Altri autori (Persone) |
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PettySheila |
SherbertGarry <1957-> |
GérinAnnie <1969-> |
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Disciplina |
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Soggetti |
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Mass media and culture - Canada |
Arts and society - Canada |
Minorities - Canada |
Canada Civilization |
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Lingua di pubblicazione |
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Formato |
Materiale a stampa |
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Livello bibliografico |
Monografia |
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Note generali |
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Description based upon print version of record. |
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Nota di bibliografia |
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Includes bibliographical references and index. |
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Nota di contenuto |
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Table of Contents; List of Illustrations; Preface; Acknowledgements; Introduction: A Poetics of Canadian Culture; I: Media and Its (Dis) Contents; II: Performing and Disrupting Identities; III: (Dis) Locating Language; IV: Cultural Dissidence; Bibliography; Biographical Notes; Index |
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Sommario/riassunto |
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How do we make culture and how does culture make us? Canadian Cultural Poesis takes a comprehensive approach toward Canadian culture from a variety of provocative perspectives. Centred on the notion of culture as social identity, it offers original essays on cultural issues of urgent concern to Canadians: gender, technology, cultural ethnicity, and regionalism. From a broad range of disciplines, contributors consider these issues in the contexts of media, individual and national identity, language, and cultural dissent. Providing an excellent introduction to current debates |
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