Canadian literature / / Faye Hammill
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| Autore: |
Hammill Faye
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| Titolo: |
Canadian literature / / Faye Hammill
|
| Pubblicazione: | Edinburgh, : Edinburgh University Press, c2007 |
| Edizione: | 1st ed. |
| 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: | 9786611089214 |
| 9781281089212 | |
| 1281089214 | |
| 9781780344713 | |
| 1780344716 | |
| 9780748629527 | |
| 0748629521 | |
| Formato: | Materiale a stampa  |
| Livello bibliografico | Monografia |
| Lingua di pubblicazione: | Inglese |
| Record Nr.: | 9910968307703321 |
| Lo trovi qui: | Univ. Federico II |
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Serie:
Edinburgh critical guides to literature.