Imagined nations : reflections on media in Canadian fiction / by David Williams.

Format:

Book

Author/Creator:

Williams, David (David Eliot), 1939-

Language:

English

Subjects (All):

Canadian fiction--20th century--History and criticism.

Canadian fiction.

Canadian fiction--Atlantic Provinces--History and criticism.

Mass media in literature.

Physical Description:

xv, 278 pages ; 24

Place of Publication:

Montreal ; Ithaca : McGill-Queen's University Press, 2003.

Contents:

Part 1 The Nation in Theory

1 Fictions of the Nation 5

2 Novel and Nation 28

3 The Mode of Communication 42

Part 2 Nations of the Book

4 Orality and Print: From Clan to Nation in No Great Mischief 77

5 Doubling and Irony: Print Nationalists vs. Radio Confederates in The Colony of Unrequited Dreams 103

6 Writing and Revolution: The Prisoner of Print in Prochain episode 132

Part 3 Motion-Picture Country

7 The Shock of Film and the Transformation of Place: A Case in Point in The Butterfly Plague 163

8 Film-nations vs. Print-nations: The Politics of Metonymy in The Englishman's Boy 183

9 Film and Print Versions of The English Patient: Wuthering Heights in the Global Village 202

Part 4 Cybernation

10 Boundary Breakdowns: Portents of the Digital Revolution in The English Patient 223

11 Border Wars: Doing Battle with the Transnationals in Neuromancer 245.

Notes:

Includes bibliographical references and index.

ISBN:

0773525165 :

OCLC:

50495591