Selected Essays in English Literatures: British and Canadian : Jonathan Swift - John Fowles - Margaret Laurence - Margaret Atwood - Di Brandt & Dennis Cooley
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Paperback / Softback
Book Series
Trierer Studien zur Literatur
ISBN-10
3631351801
ISBN-13
9783631351802
Publisher
Peter Lang AG
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Peter Lang AG
Country of Manufacture
DE
Country of Publication
GB
Publication Date
May 3rd, 2002
Print length
166 Pages
Weight
230 grams
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15.00 x 20.90 x 1.00 cms
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This collection of essays begins with a reassessment of Swift’s Gulliver’s Travels, in particular addressing the universal formative impact it keeps exerting on the ‘myth of utopia’ (N. Frye) and the ramifications it displays in contemporary exemplars of utopian/dystopian fiction – The Handmaid’s Tale, Canadian author Margaret Atwood’s world success, being a most significant case in point. John Fowles, within an overview of his works, is dealt with to point out the quest-/quester-motif as an informing element, which itself forms part of the ‘myth of the picaresque’ as the encompassing literary genre. This line of argument is continued in the Margaret Laurence chapters with a view to bring to the surface ‘hidden’ subtextual relics of the picaresque now fully integrated in the Canadian vistas of her narrative texture. The Di Brandt & Dennis Cooley interview presents two representatives of Canadian Prairie literature: Di Brandt a persuasive example of (ex-)Mennonite ethno-culture and the literary creativity emanating from it since the 1980s; and Dennis Cooley, the accomplished author/critic and publisher encouraging promising talents.
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