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1 online resource (280) |
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Cover13; -- Contents -- Acknowledgments -- Preface -- Abbreviations -- Introduction: Reading 8220;Birch Bark8221; 8211; How to Mourn the Loss of the Logos -- PART ONE: AN AESTHETICS OF SILENCE -- 1 Orpheus Is Dismembered -- 2 Writing Disaster: 8220;Stars Who Implode into Silence8221; -- 3 8220;Moving to the Clear8221;: A Poetics of Process -- 4 The Dionysian Principle of Becoming -- PART TWO: SILENCING MYTHS OF IDENTITY -- 5 The Young Poet and the Fathers of Can.lit. -- 6 The 8220;Sphinx of the Unknown Land8221; Is a 8220;Dainty Monster8221; -- 7 Odysseus Is Never Returning -- PART THREE: WEAVERS IN A SEA OF SILENCE -- 8 An Archaeology of the 8220;Forgotten Mother8221;: Lilith and Ishtar -- 9 The Art of Healing: Mary, Conredemptrix -- Conclusion: 8220;This Sweet Touch from the World8221; -- Notes -- Bibliography -- Index -- A -- B -- C -- D -- E -- F -- G -- H -- I -- J -- K -- L -- M -- N -- O -- P -- R -- S -- T -- V -- W -- Y -- Z. |
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Reading selected texts by Michael Ondaatje, including the novels In the Skin of a Lion and The English Patient and the poem "Birch Bark," Annick Hillger demonstrates how his writing both answers and challenges attempts to delineate the idea of a Canadian national self. She sets Ondaatje's work within the context of theoretical and philosophical ideas, developing the notion of a "literature of silence" concerned with finding a ground for self beyond the realm of language. |
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Includes bibliographical references (pages 249-262) and index. |
| Local Note |
eBooks on EBSCOhost EBSCO eBook Subscription Academic Collection - North America |
| Subject |
Ondaatje, Michael, 1943- -- Criticism and interpretation.
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Ondaatje, Michael, 1943- |
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Criticism and interpretation. |
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Modernism (Literature) -- Canada.
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Modernism (Literature) |
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Canada. |
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Canadian literature -- 20th century -- History and criticism.
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Canadian literature. |
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20th century |
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LITERARY CRITICISM -- American -- General. |
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1900-1999 |
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Electronic books.
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Criticism, interpretation, etc.
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Hillger, Annick. |
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Print version: 9780773530300 |
| ISBN |
1282850032 |
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9781282850033 |
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9780773560062 |
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0773560068 |
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0773530304 (hardback) |
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9780773530300 |
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9780773530304 (print) |
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