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1 online resource (363 pages) : illustrations (some color), portraits (some color). |
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text file |
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Reapraisals : Canadian writers,
1189-6787
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Re-appraisals, Canadian writers ; 31.
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| Bibliography |
Includes bibliographical references and index. |
| Contents |
The Animals in This Country": Animals in the Canadian Literary Imagination / Janice Fiamengo -- pt. I. Reading Strategies for Animal Writing -- (B)othering the Theory: Approaching the Unapproachable in Bear and other Realistic Animal Narratives / Gwendolyn Guth -- "Ontological Applause": Metaphor and Homology in the Poetry of Don McKay / Susan Fisher -- "Drawn from Nature": Katherine Govier's Audubon and the Trauma of Extinction / Cynthia Sugars -- Lick me, Bite me, Hear me, Write me: Tracking Animals between Postcolonialism and Ecocriticism / Travis V. Mason -- Yann Martel's Life of Pi: Back in the World, or "The Story with Animals in the Better Story" / Jack Robinson -- pt. II. Animal Writers -- "So That Nothing May be Lost": Thomas McIlwraith's Birds of Ontario / Christoph Irmscher -- Marshall Saunders and the Urbanization of the Animal / Gwendolyn Davies -- Charles G.D. Robert's cosmic Animals: Aspects of "Mythticism" in Earth's Enigmas / Thomas Hodd -- St. Archie of the Wild: Grey Owl's Account of his "Natural" Conversion / Albert Braz -- "At War with Nature": Animals in Timothy Findley's The Wars / Peter Webb -- Fear, Friendship, and Delight: The appeal of Animals in the Children's Poetry of Dennis Lee / Greg Maillet -- pt. III. The Politics of Animal Representation -- When Elephants Weep: Reading The White Bone as a Sentimental Animal Story / Ella Soper-Jones -- "The Mania for Killing": Hunting and Collecting in Seton's The Arctic Prairies / Misao Dean -- The Politics of Hunting in Canadian women's Narratives of Travel / Wendy Roy -- National Species: Ecology, Allegory, and Indigeneity in the Wolf Stories of Roberts, Seton, and Mowat / Brian Johnson. |
| Summary |
Other Selves: Animals in the Canadian Literary Imagination begins with the premise, first suggested by Margaret Atwood in The Animals in That Country (1968), that animals have occupied a peculiarly central position in the Canadian imagination. Unlike the longer-settled countries of Europe or the more densely-populated United States, in Canada animals have always been the loved and feared co-inhabitants of this harsh, beautiful land. From the realistic animal tales of Charles G.D. Roberts and Ernest Thompson Seton, to the urban animals of Marshall Saunders and Dennis Lee, to the lyrical observ. |
| Local Note |
eBooks on EBSCOhost EBSCO eBook Subscription Academic Collection - North America |
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Animals in literature.
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Animals in literature. |
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Human-animal relationships in literature.
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Human-animal relationships in literature. |
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Canadian literature (English) -- History and criticism. |
| Genre/Form |
Electronic books.
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Essays.
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Essays.
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| Added Author |
Fiamengo, Janice Anne, 1964-
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| Other Form: |
Print version: Other selves. Ottawa : University of Ottawa Press, 2007 (OCoLC)86225819 |
| ISBN |
9780776617701 (electronic book) |
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0776617702 (electronic book) |
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9780776618500 (electronic book) |
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0776618504 (electronic book) |
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9780776606453 |
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077660645X |
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