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Stephen Leacock A Reappraisal / edited and with an introduction by David Staines.
- Format:
- Book
- Conference/Event
- Author/Creator:
- Staines, David
- Conference Name:
- Leacock Symposium (1985 : University of Ottawa)
- Series:
- Re-appraisals, Canadian writers ; 12.
- Re-appraisals, Canadian writers ; 12
- Language:
- English
- Subjects (All):
- Leacock, Stephen, 1869-1944--Bibliography.
- Leacock, Stephen, 1869-1944--Criticism and interpretation--Congresses.
- Canada--In literature--Congresses.
- Canada.
- Genre:
- Electronic books.
- Physical Description:
- 1 online resource (152 pages)
- Edition:
- 1st ed.
- Place of Publication:
- University of Ottawa Press / Les Presses de l’Université d’Ottawa 1986
- [Ottawa] : University of Ottawa Press, 1986.
- Language Note:
- English
- System Details:
- text file
- Summary:
- This collection of essays explores the many dimensions of the writings of Stephen Leacock, the well-loved Canadian author of Sunshine Sketches of a Little Town.
- Contents:
- Intro
- Contents
- Introduction
- Riding Off in All Directions: A Few Wild Words in Search of Stephen Leacock
- Leacock and Leahen: The Feminine Influence on Stephen Leacock
- Leacock and Understanding Canada
- Leacock and the Media
- The Historical Leacock
- Stephen Leacock, Economist: An Owl Among the Parrots
- Imperial Cosmopolitanism, or the Partly Solved Riddle of Leacock's Multi-National Persona
- Stephen Leacock, Humorist: American by Association
- Religion and Romance in Mariposa
- The Roads Back: Sunshine Sketches of a Little Town and George Elliott's The Kissing Man
- Untestable Inferences: Post-Structuralism and Leacock's Achievement in Sunshine Sketches of a Little Town
- The Achievement of Stephen Leacock
- Stephen Leacock: The Writer and His Writings
- Notes
- Contributors.
- Notes:
- "Originated in the Leacock Symposium, which was held under the auspices of the Department of English at the University of Ottawa on April 26-27, 1985"--P. 2.
- Bibliography: p. 161-170.
- "Stephen Leacock: the writer and his writings": p. 133-160.
- OpenEdition Books License https://www.openedition.org/12554
- Description based on print version record.
- ISBN:
- 9780776627007
- 0776627007
- 9780776616940
- 0776616943
- OCLC:
- 742332952
- Publisher Number:
- 10.26530/OAPEN_578816
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