Gained ground : perspectives on Canadian and comparative North American studies /: perspectives on Canadian and comparative North American studies. (2018)

• Record Type: Book
• Further Information: Note: Edited by Eva Gruber and Caroline Rosenthal.
• Editors: Gruber, Eva; Rosenthal, Caroline, 1969-
• Contents: Mapping North America: comparative North American literature and its contexts / Bettina Mack -- The Scottish invention of Canadian literature: John Buchan in Canada / Silvia Mergenthal -- "Poetics of the Potent": Yann Martel's Life of Pi, Edgar Allan Poe's The Narrative of Arthur Gordon Pym of Nantucket, and modes of transcreation / Jutta Ernst -- "Wanting to light out for tender tenantless territories": reading landscape in Robert Kroetsch's The hornbooks of Rita K (2001) and Mark Anthony Jarman's 19 knives (2000) / Claire Omhovere -- "Landscape-of-the-heart": transgenerational memory and relationality in Roy Kiyooka's Mothertalk: life stories of Mary Kiyoshi Kiyooka / Katja Sarkowsky -- Performing shame: theatrical motifs in the works of Alice Munro and Alison Bechdel / Marlene Goldman -- Timothy Findley's "Stones": names, symbols, and stories / Sherrill Grace -- Comparative North American opera: individualism and national identity / Michael and Linda Hutcheon -- "Who really lives there?": (meta-)tourism and the Canada Pavilion at Epcot / Florian Freitag -- Contact prints: reading Margaret Atwood's The door and the MaddAddam trilogy through the lens of photography / Julia Breitbach -- Cup-idity, or poetic larceny in transatlantic contexts: Margaret Atwood's "Stealing the hummingbird cup" / Shuli Barzilai -- Across the "Ocean of the page": Nischik and Kroetsch gaining ground / Aritha van Herk -- Reingard, Queen of the Night / Margaret Atwood.
• Publisher Details: Rochester, New York : Camden House
• Publication Date: 2018
• Extent: 1 online resource
• Subjects: 700.97; Comparative literature -- Canadian and American; Comparative literature -- American and Candian; ART / Performance; ART / Reference; LITERARY CRITICISM / American / General; Electronic books
• Languages: English
• ISBNs: 9781787443921; 1787443922
• Related ISBNs: 9781571134240; 1571134247
• Notes: Note: Includes bibliographical references and index.; Note: Print version record.
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