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Strange Things: The Malevolent North in Canadian Literature (Clarendon Lectures in English)
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Product Description
Strange Things explores a part of the imaginative landscape of one of the most esteemed and popular of contemporary writers, Margaret Atwood. Focusing on the imaginative mystique of the wilderness of the Canadian North, Atwood looks at the myths and their reinventions in the work of writers such as Robert Service, Robertson Davies, Alice Munro, E. J. Pratt, Marian Engel, Margaret Laurence, and Gwendolyn MacEwan
The subjects she discusses include the `Grey Owl Syndrome' of white writers going native; the folklore arising from the mysterious Franklin expedition of the nineteenth century; the myth of the dreaded snow monster, the Wendigo; and the relations between nature writing and new forms of Gothic. She also looks at how a fresh generation of women writers have adapted the imagery of the Canadian North for the exploration of contemporary themes of gender, the family, and sexuality.
Product Details
- Amazon Sales Rank: #2381420 in Books
- Published on: 1995-10-19
- Original language: English
- Number of items: 1
- Binding: Hardcover
- 136 pages
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Synopsis
This book is intended for all readers of Canadian Literature, and of Margaret Atwood; students of Canadian Literature and History, and of comparative literature.
About the Author
Margaret Atwood is the internationally celebrated author of more than 25 books of poetry, fiction, and non-fiction. She has won many literary awards for her books, including her most recent - The Robber Bride. She has also edited The Oxford Book of Canadian Verse in English (OUP, 1982, with Robert Weaver), and The Oxford Book of Canadian Short Stories in English (OUP, 1986).
