03176nam 2200637Ia 450 991015552470332120200520144314.00-7766-1686-2(CKB)2430000000000672(EBL)653353(OCoLC)742332934(SSID)ssj0000377844(PQKBManifestationID)11282091(PQKBTitleCode)TC0000377844(PQKBWorkID)10338382(PQKB)11306638(CaPaEBR)403762(CaBNvSL)rjv00101352(MiAaPQ)EBC3244774(MiAaPQ)EBC653353(OCoLC)181843519(MdBmJHUP)muse8760(NjHacI)992430000000000672(VaAlCD)20.500.12592/1pdw4x(schport)gibson_crkn/2009-12-01/2/403762(EXLCZ)99243000000000067220010604d2001 uy 0engur|n|---|||||txtccrRobertson Davies a mingling of contrarities /edited by Camille R. La Bossiere and Linda M. Morra1st ed.Ottawa University of Ottawa Pressc20011 online resource (192 p.)Re-appraisals, Canadian writers ;24Description based upon print version of record.0-7766-0531-3 Includes bibliographical references.Contents; Introduction: Davies Tristram-gistus; The Concert of His Life: Perspectives on the Masks of Robertson Davies; ""A Hint of the Basic Brimstone"": The Humour of Robertson Davies; Undermining Comedy: Shadows of Determinism in the Salterton Novels; Magic in the Web: Robertson Davies and Shamanstvo; The Leaven of Wine and Spirits in the Fiction of Robertson Davies; Metadrama and Melodrama: Postmodern Elements in the Plays of Robertson Davies; ""Where There's a Will, There Are Always Two Ways"": Doubling in World of WondersAuthentic Forgeries: Hermeneutics, Artifice, and Authenticity in Robertson Davies' What's Bred in the BoneThe Myth and Magic of a Textual Truth and/or a Metaphorical Reading of The Deptford Trilogy; ""Converting the Clerisy"": Quest/ioning, Contradictions, and Ethics in The Cornish Triptych; ""Medical Consultation"" for Murther and Walking Spirits and The Cunning ManThis collection of essays on the writing of Robertson Davies addresses the basic problems in reading his work by looking at the topics of doubling, disguise, irony, paradox, and dwelling in ""gaps"" or spaces ""in between."" The essays present new insights on a broad range of topics in Davies' oeuvre and represent one of the first major discussions devoted to Davies' work since his death in 1995.Re-appraisals, Canadian writers ;24.Canadian literatureCanadian literature.813La Bossiere Camille R1239736Morra Linda M1685433MiAaPQMiAaPQMiAaPQBOOK9910155524703321Robertson Davies4192153UNINA