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Record Nr.

UNISA996248114303316

Autore

Turner Margaret <1957->

Titolo

Imagining culture [[electronic resource] ] : new world narrative and the writing of Canada / / Margaret E. Turner

Pubbl/distr/stampa

Montreal [Que.], : McGill-Queen's University Press, 1995

ISBN

1-282-85749-5

9786612857492

0-7735-6543-4

Descrizione fisica

viii, 134 p. ; ; 24 cm

Disciplina

C813.009

Soggetti

Canadian fiction - History and criticism

National characteristics, Canadian, in literature

Narration (Rhetoric)

America In literature

Canada In literature

Lingua di pubblicazione

Inglese

Formato

Materiale a stampa

Livello bibliografico

Monografia

Note generali

Bibliographic Level Mode of Issuance: Monograph

Nota di bibliografia

Includes bibliographical references and index.

Nota di contenuto

Front Matter -- Contents -- Acknowledgments -- Introduction -- John Richardson -- Frederick Philip Grove -- Sheila Watson -- Robert Kroetsch -- Jane Urquhart -- Conclusion -- Notes -- Bibliography -- Index

Sommario/riassunto

Turner examines the manner in which a new world culture represents itself, creates its origins, and constructs and understands the construction of its cultural history. She supports her theory with an analysis of paradigmatic texts by John Richardson, Frederick Philip Grove, Sheila Watson, Robert Kroetsch, and Jane Urquhart that articulate the predicament of the new world writer. Imagining Culture reveals the haunting of language and imagination that attends the search for origins and belonging, and shows how Canadian writers enact the processes of inhabiting the new world and imagining its culture.