Canadian literature [[electronic resource] /] / Faye Hammill

• Autore: Hammill Faye
• Pubblicazione: Edinburgh, : Edinburgh University Press, c2007
• Descrizione fisica: 1 online resource (249 p.)
• Disciplina: 810.9971
• Soggetto topico: Canadian literature - 20th century - History and criticism; Canadian literature - History and criticism; Authors, Canadian - 20th century
• Soggetto geografico: Canada In literature
• Note generali: Description based upon print version of record.
• Nota di bibliografia: Includes bibliographical references (p. 202-214) and index.
• Nota di contenuto: COVER; COPYRIGHT; Contents; Series Preface; Acknowledgements; Abbreviations; Chronology; Introduction; chapter 1 - Ethnicity, Race, Colonisation; chapter 2 - Wilderness, Cities, Regions; chapter 3 - Desire; chapter 4 - Histories and Stories; Conclusion; Student Resources; Index
• Sommario/riassunto: An important critical study of Canadian literature, placing internationally successful anglophone Canadian authors in the context of their national literary history. While the focus of the book is on twentieth-century and contemporary writing, it also charts the historical development of Canadian literature and discusses important eighteenth- and nineteenth-century authors. The chapters focus on four central topics in Canadian culture: Ethnicity, Race, Colonisation; Wildernesses, Cities, Regions; Desire; and Histories and Stories. Each chapter combines case studies of five key texts with a bro
• Titolo autorizzato: Canadian literature
• ISBN: 1-281-08921-4; 1-78034-471-6; 9786611089214; 0-7486-2952-1
• Formato: Materiale a stampa
• Livello bibliografico: Monografia
• Lingua di pubblicazione: Inglese
• Record Nr.: 9910785076003321
• Lo trovi qui: Univ. Federico II
• Serie: Edinburgh critical guides to literature.