Canadian Literature (Edinburgh Critical Guides to Literature) - Hardcover

Hammill, Faye

Hardcover

ISBN 10: 074862161X ISBN 13: 9780748621613

Publisher: Edinburgh University Press, 2007

Synopsis

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. Authors chosen for close analysis include Margaret Atwood, Michael Ondaatje, Alice Munro, Leonard Cohen, Thomas King and Carol Shields.

About this title

About the Author:

Faye Hammill is Senior Lecturer in English at the University of Strathclyde

Review:

A good resource book for undergraduate students taking a course in Canadian literature.

(Oana Godeanu H-Canada)

About this edition

• Publisher: Edinburgh University Press
• Publication date: 2007
• ISBN 10: 074862161X
• ISBN 13: 9780748621613
• Binding: Hardcover
• Edition number: 1
• Number of pages: 256