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1 online resource (310 pages) |
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polychrome |
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text file |
| Bibliography |
Includes bibliographical references. |
| Contents |
Introduction : when is the prairie? / Alison Calder, Robert Wardhaugh -- Tantalizing possibility of living on the plains / Frances W. Kaye -- Melting of time in Thomas Wharton's Icefields / Claire Omhovère -- Autogeology : limestone and life narrative in Carol Shields's The stone diaries / Nina van Gessel -- Coyote as culprit : 'her-story' and the feminist fantastic in Gail Anderson-Dargatz's The cure for death by lightning / Heidi Slettedahl Macpherson -- Robert Kroetsch, Marshall McLuhan, and Canada's prairie postmodernism : the Aberhart effect / Russell Morton Brown -- "Precarious perch" of the "decent woman" : spatial (de)constructions of gender in women's prairie memoirs / S. Leigh Matthews -- Documents in the postmodern long prairie poem / Dennis Cooley -- Reconstructions of literary settings in North America's prairie regions : a cross-cultural comparison of Red Cloud, Nebraska, and Neepawa, Manitoba / Sarah Payne -- A timeless imagined prairie : return and regeneration in Margaret Laurence's Manawaka novels / Debra Dudek -- Time's grip along the Athabasca, 1920s and 1930s / Cam McEachern. |
| Summary |
"The Canadian Prairie has long been represented as a timeless and unchanging location, defined by settlement and landscape. Now, a new generation of writers and historians challenge that perception and argue. Instead, that it is a region with an evolving culture and history. This collection of ten essays explores a more contemporary prairie identity, and reconfigures "the prairie" as a construct that is nonlinear and diverse, responding to the impact of geographical, historical, and political currents. These writers explore the connections between document and imagination, between history and culture, and between geography and time."--Jacket. |
| Local Note |
eBooks on EBSCOhost EBSCO eBook Subscription Academic Collection - North America |
| Subject |
Canadian literature -- Prairie Provinces -- History and criticism.
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Canadian literature. |
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Prairie Provinces. |
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Prairie Provinces -- In literature.
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Canadian literature -- Prairie Provinces -- History and criticism. |
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Electronic books.
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Criticism, interpretation, etc.
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Aufsatzsammlung.
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Essays.
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Essays.
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| Added Author |
Wardhaugh, Robert Alexander, 1967-
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Calder, Alison, 1969-
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| Other Form: |
Print version: History, literature, and the writing of the Canadian Prairies. Winnipeg, Man. : University of Manitoba Press, ©2005 (OCoLC)58050712 |
| ISBN |
0887556825 |
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9780887556821 |
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1283090740 |
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9781283090742 |
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9780887553240 (electronic book) |
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0887553249 (electronic book) |
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