The serpent's part : narrating the self in Canadian literature
- Title
- The serpent's part : narrating the self in Canadian literature / David Lucking.
- Published by
- Bern ; New York : Peter Lang, ©2003.
- Author
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Details
- Description
- 211 pages; 21 cm
- Subject
- Nervo, Amado
- Geschichte 1850-1900
- Geschichte 1850-1993
- Geschichte 1900-2000
- Geschichte 1850-1980
- Canadian literature > History and criticism
- Self in literature
- Identity (Psychology) in literature
- Narration (Rhetoric)
- Canadian literature
- Englisch
- Erzähltechnik
- Identität Motiv
- Literatur
- Englische Literatur > Kanada > Selbst
- Selbst > Englische Literatur > Kanada
- Erzähltechnik
- Identität
- Motiv (Literatur)
- Littérature canadienne d'expression anglaise
- identité
- Roman
- Kanada
- Englisch
- Genre/Form
- Criticism, interpretation, etc.
- Contents
- Introduction: writing a new name -- 1. Rampant with memory: history and identity in Canadian literature -- 2. Rites and wrongs of passage: the divided voice in Moodie's Roughing It in the Bush -- 3. A mountain in an untravelled land: sounding silence in O-Hagan's Tay John -- 4. Reasonable facsimilies: myths made flesh in Hodgin's The Invention of the World -- 5. The novelist as navigator: naming the world in Bowering's Burning Water -- 6. The comedy company of the psyche: role-playing in Davies's Deptford Trilogy -- 7. The real story: making history in atwood's The Robber Bride -- 8. End fact, try fiction: the writing on the wall in Findley's Famous Last Words.
- Owning institution
- Princeton University Library
- Bibliography (note)
- Includes bibliographical references (p. [201]-207) and index.