A Few acres of snow : literary and artistic images of Canada / / edited by Paul Simpson-Housley and Glen Norcliffe

• Pubblicazione: Toronto ; ; Oxford : , : Dundurn Press, , [1992]; ©1992
• Descrizione fisica: 1 online resource (294 p.)
• Disciplina: 700.971; 810.9/3271; 810.93271
• Soggetto topico: Canadian literature - History and criticism; French-Canadian literature - History and criticism; Landscapes in literature; Landscapes - Canada; Art, Canadian
• Soggetto geografico: Canada In literature
• Soggetto genere / forma: Electronic books.
• Persona (resp. second.): Simpson-HousleyPaul; NorcliffeG. B.
• Note generali: Description based upon print version of record.
• Nota di bibliografia: Includes bibliographical references and index.
• Nota di contenuto: Contents; Contributors; List of Illustrations; Acknowledgments; 1 No Vacant Eden; 2 Hugh MacLennan: Literary Geographer of a Nation; 3 ""The Kindling Touch of Imagination"": Charles William Jefferys and Canadian Identity; 4 Theory in Literary Geography: The Poetry of Charles Mair; 5 Moral Frames for Landscape in Canadian Literature; 6 In a Hard Land: The Geographical Context of Canadian Industrial Landscape Painting; 7 Human Encroachments on a Domineering Physical Landscape; 8 The North and Native Symbols: Landscape as Universe ; 9 The Forest Landscape in Maritime Canadian and Swedish Literature: A Comparative Analysis10 Elizabeth Bishop from Nova Scotia: ""Half Nova Scotian, Half New Englander, Wholly Atlantic""; 11 Ways of Seeing, Ways of Being: Literature, Place, and Tourism in L.M. Montgomery's Prince Edward Island; 12 La Mer, La Patrie: Pointe-aux-Coques by Antonine Maillet; 13 Picturing the Picturesque: Lucius O'Brien's Sunrise on the Saguenay; 14 Revisioning the Roman Catholic Environment: Geographical Attitudes in Gabrielle Roy's The Cashier; 15 Monumental Buildings: Perspectives by Two Montreal Painters ; 16 Augurs of ""Gentrification"": City Houses of Four Canadian Painters17 Drawing Earth; Or Representing Region Niagara: An Approach to Public Geography; 18 The Manitoba Landscape of Martha Ostenso's Wild Geese; 19 Deriving Geographical Information from the Novels of Frederick Philip Grove; 20 ""Cloud-Bound"": The Western Landscapes of Marmaduke Matthews; 21 Structured Feeling: Japanese Canadian Poetry and Landscape; 22 A Loving Nature: Malcolm Lowry in British Columbia; Index; A; B; C; D; E; F; G; H; I; J; K; L; M; N; O; P; Q; R; S; T; U; V; W; Y; Z
• Sommario/riassunto: These 22 essays explore how poets, artists, and writers have addressed the physical essence of Canada.
• Titolo autorizzato: A Few acres of snow
• ISBN: 9786611962142; 1-281-96214-7; 1-55488-050-5; 1-282-80893-1; 9786612808937; 1-77070-069-2
• Formato: Materiale a stampa
• Livello bibliografico: Monografia
• Lingua di pubblicazione: Inglese
• Record Nr.: 996248226503316
• Lo trovi qui: Univ. di Salerno