The Rhetoric of Canadian Writing (Textxet: Studies in Comparative Literature) - Softcover

Softcover

ISBN 10: 9042012900 ISBN 13: 9789042012905

Publisher: Brill Rodopi, 2002

Synopsis

The sixteen articles in The Rhetoric of Canadian Writing are a welcome contribution to the growing interest in Canadian culture, indicating its variety - Aboriginal, Anglo-Canadian and French-Canadian culture and their interrelationships are all represented. In classical oratory the term “rhetoric” signifies the art of influencing the thought and conduct of readers and listeners, and this concept is used as an underlying current of debate in this volume. Contributors address the theme of identity and post-colonial disputation in their explorations of eighteenth- and nineteenth-century writing by Elizabeth Simcoe, Catharine Parr Traill and Lucy Montgomery as well as contemporary works by Margaret Atwood, Nancy Huston, Wayne Johnston, Susan Swan, Jacques Poulin and Rudy Wiebe. Quebecoise writer Louis Dupré contributes a compelling reflection on women's writing in Quebec.

About this edition

• Publisher: Brill Rodopi
• Publication date: 2002
• ISBN 10: 9042012900
• ISBN 13: 9789042012905
• Binding: Paperback
• Number of pages: 304