LEADER 04481nam 2200769 450 001 9910819919803321 005 20230912135202.0 010 $a1-282-05613-1 010 $a9786612056130 010 $a1-4426-8319-8 024 7 $a10.3138/9781442683198 035 $a(CKB)2420000000004540 035 $a(OCoLC)244768826 035 $a(CaPaEBR)ebrary10226283 035 $a(SSID)ssj0000312902 035 $a(PQKBManifestationID)11211958 035 $a(PQKBTitleCode)TC0000312902 035 $a(PQKBWorkID)10350500 035 $a(PQKB)10811142 035 $a(CaPaEBR)420835 035 $a(CaBNvSL)thg00604692 035 $a(DE-B1597)465098 035 $a(OCoLC)944177240 035 $a(DE-B1597)9781442683198 035 $a(Au-PeEL)EBL4672237 035 $a(CaPaEBR)ebr11257911 035 $a(OCoLC)958516143 035 $a(dli)HEB06800 035 $a(MiU)MIU01000000000000012925630 035 $a(VaAlCD)20.500.12592/t7vd5d 035 $a(schport)gibson_crkn/2009-12-01/7/420835 035 $a(MiAaPQ)EBC4672237 035 $a(MdBmJHUP)musev2_105513 035 $a(MiAaPQ)EBC3257883 035 $a(EXLCZ)992420000000004540 100 $a20160922h19851985 uy 0 101 0 $aeng 135 $aurcn||||||||| 181 $ctxt 182 $cc 183 $acr 200 14$aThe Wacousta syndrome $eexplorations in the Canadian landscape /$fGaile McGregor 210 1$aToronto, [Ontario] ;$aBuffalo, [New York] ;$aLondon, [England] :$cUniversity of Toronto Press,$d1985. 210 4$dİ1985 215 $a1 online resource (483 p.) 300 $aBibliographic Level Mode of Issuance: Monograph 311 $a0-8020-2554-4 311 $a0-8020-6570-8 320 $aIncludes bibliographical references (p. [449]-473). 327 $aCONTENTS -- PREFACE -- 1 A View from the Fort -- 2 Circum Locutions -- 3 The Frontier Antithesis -- 4 Re Definition -- 5 The House of Revelations -- 6 Harlequin Romances -- 7 Farewell, Charles Atlas -- 8 Fool-Saints and 'Noble' Savages -- 9 Hat Tricks -- 10 'I' -Site -- 11 The Writing on the Wall -- 12 In Medias Res -- CATALOGUE OF PRIMARY SOURCES -- AUTHOR'S NOTE 330 $aEarly Canadians, McGregor finds, were hardly the robust adventurers of legend; in fact, they preferred the view from the fort to the call of the wild - a disconcerting through for a nation rasied on TomThomson, voyageurs, and the boy scouts. In modern times, Canadians live most comfortably in the security of small towns, happily regulated by compromise and ritual. Ambivalent in character, they have limited horizons, but within these bounds they have great power and ability to control their own lives. McGregor takes as her starting point the Canadian's recoil from nature - the awesome and hostile northern wilderness - as exemplified in Major John Richardson's Wacousta. She finds in this novel a paradigm of the Canadian experience - man at aodds with generally unpleasant surroundings - a pattern that pervades and dominates our entire cultural expression. By studying Canadian cultural artifacts, particularly literary ones of the twentieth centiry, she explores the Canadian 'langscape' (the set of myths through which a culture processes its encounter with nature), aiming at nothing less than the delineation of the 'prototypical Canadian' and the 'mapping' of the Canadian sense of self. She reconstructs a comprehensive image of Canadian culture, divested of its 'American' veneer, as a rational, self-consistent, seamless whole, and concludes with a brilliant analysis of the role of the artist, especially the writer, as mediator between ourselves and our world. There is major critical intelligence at work here. McGregor presents a grand challenge to those who think they know about our literature, our art, and cultural identity to refine and re0think, possibly even change, their current views. 606 $aCanadian literature$xHistory and criticism 606 $aNational characteristics, Canadian 607 $aCanada$xCivilization 608 $aCriticism, interpretation, etc. 608 $aElectronic books. 615 0$aCanadian literature$xHistory and criticism. 615 0$aNational characteristics, Canadian. 676 $a971 700 $aMcGregor$b Gaile$f1943-$01018662 801 0$bMiAaPQ 801 1$bMiAaPQ 801 2$bMiAaPQ 906 $aBOOK 912 $a9910819919803321 996 $aThe Wacousta syndrome$92396916 997 $aUNINA