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A Few acres of snow : literary and artistic images of Canada / edited by Paul Simpson-Housley and Glen Norcliffe.
- Format:
- Book
- Language:
- English
- Subjects (All):
- Canadian literature--History and criticism.
- Canadian literature.
- French-Canadian literature--History and criticism.
- French-Canadian literature.
- Landscapes in literature.
- Landscapes--Canada.
- Landscapes.
- Art, Canadian.
- Canada--In literature.
- Canada.
- Physical Description:
- 1 online resource (294 p.)
- Place of Publication:
- Toronto ; Oxford : Dundurn Press, [1992]
- Language Note:
- English
- Summary:
- These 22 essays explore how poets, artists, and writers have addressed the physical essence of Canada.
- Contents:
- Contents; Contributors; List of Illustrations; Acknowledgments; 1 No Vacant Eden; 2 Hugh MacLennan: Literary Geographer of a Nation; 3 ""The Kindling Touch of Imagination"": Charles William Jefferys and Canadian Identity; 4 Theory in Literary Geography: The Poetry of Charles Mair; 5 Moral Frames for Landscape in Canadian Literature; 6 In a Hard Land: The Geographical Context of Canadian Industrial Landscape Painting; 7 Human Encroachments on a Domineering Physical Landscape; 8 The North and Native Symbols: Landscape as Universe
- 9 The Forest Landscape in Maritime Canadian and Swedish Literature: A Comparative Analysis10 Elizabeth Bishop from Nova Scotia: ""Half Nova Scotian, Half New Englander, Wholly Atlantic""; 11 Ways of Seeing, Ways of Being: Literature, Place, and Tourism in L.M. Montgomery's Prince Edward Island; 12 La Mer, La Patrie: Pointe-aux-Coques by Antonine Maillet; 13 Picturing the Picturesque: Lucius O'Brien's Sunrise on the Saguenay; 14 Revisioning the Roman Catholic Environment: Geographical Attitudes in Gabrielle Roy's The Cashier; 15 Monumental Buildings: Perspectives by Two Montreal Painters
- 16 Augurs of ""Gentrification"": City Houses of Four Canadian Painters17 Drawing Earth; Or Representing Region Niagara: An Approach to Public Geography; 18 The Manitoba Landscape of Martha Ostenso's Wild Geese; 19 Deriving Geographical Information from the Novels of Frederick Philip Grove; 20 ""Cloud-Bound"": The Western Landscapes of Marmaduke Matthews; 21 Structured Feeling: Japanese Canadian Poetry and Landscape; 22 A Loving Nature: Malcolm Lowry in British Columbia; Index; A; B; C; D; E; F; G; H; I; J; K; L; M; N; O; P; Q; R; S; T; U; V; W; Y; Z
- Notes:
- Description based upon print version of record.
- Includes bibliographical references and index.
- Description based on print version record.
- ISBN:
- 9786611962142
- 9786612808937
- 9781281962140
- 1281962147
- 9781554880508
- 1554880505
- 9781282808935
- 1282808931
- 9781770700697
- 1770700692
- OCLC:
- 699474507
- Publisher Number:
- 2027/heb06757 hdl
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