wilfrid laurier university press sep 2018 (5 Ergebnisse)

Taschenbuch. Zustand: Neu. Neuware - 1930 can be seen as the dawn of a period of darkness, the beginning of what Auden would call 'a low, dishonest decade.' Europe questioned itself and its viability. Major writers and artists sought in to grapple with issues still central to our lives, including mass culture and its dangers and the rise of the politics of irrationality.

Taschenbuch. Zustand: Neu. Neuware - Can literary criticism help transform entrenched Settler Canadian understandings of history and place How are nationalist historiographies, insular regionalisms, established knowledge systems, state borders, and narrow definitions continuing to hinder the transfer of information across epistemological divides in the twenty-first century What might nation-to-nation literary relations look like Through readings of a wide range of northeastern texts - including Puritan captivity narratives, Wabanaki wampum belts, and contemporary Innu poetry - Rachel Bryant explores how colonized and Indigenous environments occupy the same given geographical coordinates even while existing in distinct epistemological worlds. Her analyses call for a vital and unprecedented process of listening to the stories that Indigenous peoples have been telling about this continent for centuries. At the same time, she performs this process herself, creating a model for listening and for incorporating those stories throughout.

Taschenbuch. Zustand: Neu. Neuware - Studies the cultural and literary contexts of narrative texts produced in English Canada since the1970s. These contributors suggest that the artistic and cultural flowering Canada is experiencing at the beginning of the twenty-first century is based on the dismantlement of images constructed to represent the nation only forty years ago.

Taschenbuch. Zustand: Neu. Neuware - The Daughter's Way investigates negotiations of female subjectivity in twentieth-century Canadian women's elegies with a special emphasis on the father's death as a literary and political watershed. The book considers how elegies inquire into the rhetoric of mourning as it is complicated by father daughter kinship.

Taschenbuch. Zustand: Neu. Neuware - For Canadians, the First World War was a dynamic period of literary activity. Almost every poet wrote about the war, critics made bold predictions about the legacy of the period's poetry, and booksellers were told it was their duty to stock shelves with war poetry. Readers bought thousands of volumes of poetry. Twenty years later, by the time Canada went to war again, no one remembered any of it.