Robertson Davies : a mingling of contrarities / / edited by Camille R. La Bossiere and Linda M. Morra |
Edizione | [1st ed.] |
Pubbl/distr/stampa | Ottawa, : University of Ottawa Press, c2001 |
Descrizione fisica | 1 online resource (192 p.) |
Disciplina | 813 |
Altri autori (Persone) |
La BossiereCamille R
MorraLinda M |
Collana | Re-appraisals, Canadian writers |
Soggetto topico | Canadian literature |
ISBN | 0-7766-1686-2 |
Formato | Materiale a stampa |
Livello bibliografico | Monografia |
Lingua di pubblicazione | eng |
Nota di contenuto |
Contents; Introduction: Davies Tristram-gistus; The Concert of His Life: Perspectives on the Masks of Robertson Davies; ""A Hint of the Basic Brimstone"": The Humour of Robertson Davies; Undermining Comedy: Shadows of Determinism in the Salterton Novels; Magic in the Web: Robertson Davies and Shamanstvo; The Leaven of Wine and Spirits in the Fiction of Robertson Davies; Metadrama and Melodrama: Postmodern Elements in the Plays of Robertson Davies; ""Where There's a Will, There Are Always Two Ways"": Doubling in World of Wonders
Authentic Forgeries: Hermeneutics, Artifice, and Authenticity in Robertson Davies' What's Bred in the BoneThe Myth and Magic of a Textual Truth and/or a Metaphorical Reading of The Deptford Trilogy; ""Converting the Clerisy"": Quest/ioning, Contradictions, and Ethics in The Cornish Triptych; ""Medical Consultation"" for Murther and Walking Spirits and The Cunning Man |
Record Nr. | UNINA-9910155524703321 |
Ottawa, : University of Ottawa Press, c2001 | ||
Materiale a stampa | ||
Lo trovi qui: Univ. Federico II | ||
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Worlds of wonder : readings in Canadian science fiction and fantasy literature / / edited by Jean-Francois Leroux and Camille R. La Bossiere |
Edizione | [1st ed.] |
Pubbl/distr/stampa | Ottawa, : University of Ottawa Press, c2004 |
Descrizione fisica | 1 online resource (170 p.) |
Disciplina | C813/.087609054 |
Altri autori (Persone) |
LerouxJean-Francois <1972->
La BossiereCamille R |
Collana | Re-appraisals, Canadian writers |
Soggetto topico |
Science fiction, Canadian - History and criticism
Fantasy fiction, Canadian - History and criticism Canadian fiction - 20th century - History and criticism |
ISBN | 0-7766-1745-1 |
Formato | Materiale a stampa |
Livello bibliografico | Monografia |
Lingua di pubblicazione | eng |
Nota di contenuto |
""Contents""; ""Introduction""; """"Another Dimension of Space"": Canadian Science Fiction and Fantasy and Atwood's Blind Assassin""; ""The Canadian Apocalypse""; ""Notes on the Contemporary Apocalyptic Imagination: William Gibson's Neuromancer and Douglas Coupland's Girlfriend in a Coma""; ""Welwyn Wilton Katz and Charles de Lint: New Fantasy as a Canadian Post-colonial Genre""; ""More Than Just Survival: The Successful Quest for Voice in Guy Gavriel Kay's Tigana and Randy Bradshaw's The Song Spinner""
""Sublime Objects and Mystic Subjects: Some Lacanian Speculations About Canadian Fantasy Literature Via Barbara Goowdy's The White Bone""""""Half In and Half Out of Things"": Boundaries in Sean Stewart's The Night Watch""; ""Mind Matters: Intellect and Identity in the Works of Phyllis Gotlieb""; ""Coding of Race in Science Fiction: What's Wrong with the Obvious?""; ""A Scientist's Relationship with Science Fiction""; ""Robots and Artificial Intelligence in Asimov's The Caves of Steel and Sawyer's Golden Fleece""; ""Northern Gothic: The Strange and Dangerous Voyage of Captaine Thomas James"" |
Record Nr. | UNINA-9910155523903321 |
Ottawa, : University of Ottawa Press, c2004 | ||
Materiale a stampa | ||
Lo trovi qui: Univ. Federico II | ||
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