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Canadian Literature
Faye Hammill
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Description for Canadian Literature
Hardback. An important critical study of Canadian literature, placing internationally successful anglophone Canadian authors in the context of their national literary history. Series: Edinburgh Critical Guides to Literature. Num Pages: 256 pages. BIC Classification: 1KBC; 2AB; DSBH. Category: (UU) Undergraduate. Dimension: 223 x 142 x 20. Weight in Grams: 450.
An important critical study of Canadian literature, placing internationally successful anglophone Canadian authors in the context of their national literary history. While the focus of the book is on twentieth-century and contemporary writing, it also charts the historical development of Canadian literature and discusses important eighteenth- and nineteenth-century authors. The chapters focus on four central topics in Canadian culture: Ethnicity, Race, Colonisation; Wildernesses, Cities, Regions; Desire; and Histories and Stories. Each chapter combines case studies of five key texts with a broad discussion of concepts and approaches, including postcolonial and postmodern reading strategies and theories of space, place and desire. ... Read more
An important critical study of Canadian literature, placing internationally successful anglophone Canadian authors in the context of their national literary history. While the focus of the book is on twentieth-century and contemporary writing, it also charts the historical development of Canadian literature and discusses important eighteenth- and nineteenth-century authors. The chapters focus on four central topics in Canadian culture: Ethnicity, Race, Colonisation; Wildernesses, Cities, Regions; Desire; and Histories and Stories. Each chapter combines case studies of five key texts with a broad discussion of concepts and approaches, including postcolonial and postmodern reading strategies and theories of space, place and desire. ... Read more
Product Details
Publisher
Edinburgh University Press
Format
Hardback
Publication date
2007
Series
Edinburgh Critical Guides to Literature
Condition
New
Number of Pages
256
Place of Publication
Edinburgh, United Kingdom
ISBN
9780748621613
SKU
V9780748621613
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About Faye Hammill
Faye Hammill is Senior Lecturer in English at the University of Strathclyde. She is the author of Literary Culture and Female Authorship in Canada 1760-2000 (2003), co-editor of the Encyclopaedia of British Women's Writing 1900-1950 (2006), and editor of The British Journal of Canadian Studies.
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