Stephen Leacock : A Reappraisal / / edited and with an introduction by David Staines
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| Autore: |
Staines David
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| Titolo: |
Stephen Leacock : A Reappraisal / / edited and with an introduction by David Staines
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| Pubblicazione: | University of Ottawa Press / Les Presses de l’Université d’Ottawa, 1986 |
| [Ottawa] : , : University of Ottawa Press, , 1986 | |
| ©1986 | |
| Edizione: | 1st ed. |
| Descrizione fisica: | 1 online resource (152 pages) |
| Disciplina: | 818/.5209 |
| Soggetto topico: | Literary essays |
| Soggetto geografico: | Canada In literature Congresses |
| Soggetto genere / forma: | Electronic books. |
| Soggetto non controllato: | essays |
| stephen leacock | |
| Canada | |
| Altri autori: | StainesDavid <1946-> |
| Note generali: | "Originated in the Leacock Symposium, which was held under the auspices of the Department of English at the University of Ottawa on April 26-27, 1985"--P. 2. |
| Nota di bibliografia: | Bibliography: p. 161-170. |
| "Stephen Leacock: the writer and his writings": p. 133-160. | |
| Nota di contenuto: | Intro -- Contents -- Introduction -- Riding Off in All Directions: A Few Wild Words in Search of Stephen Leacock -- Leacock and Leahen: The Feminine Influence on Stephen Leacock -- Leacock and Understanding Canada -- Leacock and the Media -- The Historical Leacock -- Stephen Leacock, Economist: An Owl Among the Parrots -- Imperial Cosmopolitanism, or the Partly Solved Riddle of Leacock's Multi-National Persona -- Stephen Leacock, Humorist: American by Association -- Religion and Romance in Mariposa -- The Roads Back: Sunshine Sketches of a Little Town and George Elliott's The Kissing Man -- Untestable Inferences: Post-Structuralism and Leacock's Achievement in Sunshine Sketches of a Little Town -- The Achievement of Stephen Leacock -- Stephen Leacock: The Writer and His Writings -- Notes -- Contributors. |
| Sommario/riassunto: | This collection of essays explores the many dimensions of the writings of Stephen Leacock, the well-loved Canadian author of Sunshine Sketches of a Little Town. |
| Titolo autorizzato: | Stephen Leacock |
| ISBN: | 0-7766-2700-7 |
| 0-7766-1694-3 | |
| Formato: | Materiale a stampa  |
| Livello bibliografico | Monografia |
| Lingua di pubblicazione: | Inglese |
| Record Nr.: | 9910138900203321 |
| Lo trovi qui: | Univ. Federico II |
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Serie:
Re-appraisals, Canadian writers ; ; 12.