Backwoodsmen as ecocritical motif in French Canadian literature : connecting worlds in the wilds / / Annie Rehill

• Autore: Rehill Annie
• Pubblicazione: Lanham, Maryland : , : Lexington Books, , 2016; ©2016
• Descrizione fisica: 1 online resource (231 p.)
• Disciplina: 840
• Soggetto topico: French-Canadian literature
• Note generali: Description based upon print version of record.
• Nota di bibliografia: Includes bibliographical references and index.
• Nota di contenuto: Contents; Acknowledgments; Preface; 1 Introduction and Historical Context; 2 Theoretical Approach; 3 Construction of and Constructions in Taché's Forestiers et voyageurs; 4 Controlling and Exploiting Wildness in Louis Hémon's Maria Chapdelaine and Léo-Paul Desrosiers' Les Engagés du Grand Portage; 5 Coureuses and Coureurs de Bois; 6 Conclusions; Bibliography; Index; About the Author
• Sommario/riassunto: This book encompasses a historically based literary analysis through an ecocritical perspective, in a thematic examination of how backwoodsmen from the seventeenth-century through the nineteenth-century are portrayed in four works of French Canadian literature. Literary depictions of these men of European origin reveal the dominant culture's changing attitudes toward Amerindians and land use, exposing each period's problematic behavior vis-à-vis different cultures and the environment and the intercultural connections and business relationships that point to the way forward.
• Titolo autorizzato: Backwoodsmen as ecocritical motif in French Canadian literature
• ISBN: 1-4985-3111-3
• Formato: Materiale a stampa
• Livello bibliografico: Monografia
• Lingua di pubblicazione: Inglese
• Record Nr.: 9910798547803321
• Lo trovi qui: Univ. Federico II
• Serie: After the empire.