Reflections : autobiography and Canadian literature / edited and with an introduction by K.P. Stich.

Format:

Book

Conference/Event

Contributor:

Stich, K. Peter.

Conference Name:

Autobiography and Canadian Literature Symposium (1987 : University of Ottawa)

Series:

Re-appraisals, Canadian writers ; 14.

Re-appraisals, Canadian writers ; 14

Language:

English

Subjects (All):

Autobiographical fiction, English--Canada--History and criticism.

Autobiographical fiction, English.

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

Canadian literature.

Physical Description:

1 online resource (192 pages)

Edition:

1st ed.

Place of Publication:

[Ottawa] : University of Ottawa Press, c1988.

Language Note:

English

Summary:

This volume discusses the autobiographical inclination in Canadian literature, exploring works by such writers as Alice Munro, W.O. Mitchell, Michael Ondaatje, John Glassco, and Susanna Moodie. Others works, including the oral memoirs of a Métis, an Inuit's account as being civil servant in Ottawa, and the autobiographical writings of pioneer women and French missionaries are examined to show the depth and breadth of this tradition in Canada. These texts act as starting points for an indepth look at the relationships between autobiography, biography and fiction in Canadian literature.</di

Contents:

Contents; Acknowledgements; Introduction; Notes Towards a Sometime and Probable History of John Glassco; The Geography of Genre in John Glassco's Memoirs of Montparnasse; Gabriel Sagard's ""je"" in the First Histoire du Canada; Roughing It in the Bush as Autobiography; Pioneer Women's Memoirs: Preserving the Past/Rescuing the Self; North and South: Autobiography and the Problems of Translation; ""Metaphors of Self"": La détresse et l'enchantement; The Alphabet of the Self: Generic and Other Slippages in Michael Ondaatje's Running in the Family

An Other I: Autobiography and Aesthetics in Clark BlaiseVoices of Louis Goulet: Notes on the Transcriptions of an Oral Memoir; The Self, Its Discourse, and the Other: The Autobiographies of Frederick Philip Grove and the Baroness Elsa von Freytag-Loringhoven; Biography as Fiction: The Art of Invisible Authorship; Invading Caves: Autobiography and W. O. Mitchell's: How I Spent My Summer Holidays; ""So Shocking a Verdict in Real Life"": Autobiography in Alice Munro's Stories; Autobiography and Creativity: Alice Munro's Story ""Fits""; Contributors

Notes:

Description based on print version record.

"The essays in this collection originated in the Autobiography and Canadian Literature Symposium sponsored by the Department of English at the University of Ottawa in April 1987"--P. vii.

Includes bibliographies.

ISBN:

0-7766-1683-8

OCLC:

742332998