Refractions of Canada in European Literature and Culture / Heinz Antor, Gordon Bölling, Annette Kern-Stähler, Klaus Stierstorfer.

Format:

Book

Contributor:

Antor, Heinz, editor.

Bölling, Gordon, editor.

Kern-Stähler, Annette, 1971- editor.

Stierstorfer, Klaus, editor.

Language:

English

Subjects (All):

European literature--History and criticism.

European literature.

Canada--In literature.

Canada.

Canada--Description and travel.

Physical Description:

1 online resource (310 p.)

Place of Publication:

Berlin ; Boston : De Gruyter, [2012]

Language Note:

English

Summary:

Ever since the first exploratory expeditions in the early modern period, North America has epitomized to Europeans a promise and the hope for the fulfilment of great expectations, be it of more freedom, greater wealth, social liberation or religious tolerance. While numerous features in this dialogic intercontinental relationship will hold true for North America in its entirety, the vast northern territories which we know as Canada today began to emerge early on as a specific iconic location in European mind-maps, and they definitely acquired a distinctive profile after the formation of the USA. As a rich source of cultural exchange and an important partner in political and economic cooperation Canada has come to occupy an important position in the cultural discourses of many European nations. It is these refractions and images of Canada which this volume thoroughly explores in European literature and culture. The contributions include literature, philosophy, language, life-writing and the concept of 'Heimat' (homeland) as well as the cultural impact of the World Wars. While there is an emphasis on literary texts, other fields of cultural representation are also included.

Contents:

Frontmatter

Foreword

Contents

Introduction: Canada from European Perspectives / STIERSTORFER, KLAUS

The Archeology of a Novel: An Afterword to The Blue Mountains of China / WIEBE, RUDY

In Between: Canada in the View of European Pioneers and Emigrants

"A New Athens Rising Near the Pole"?: The Canadian Experience in Frances Brooke's The History of Emily Montague (1769) / BÖLLING, GORDON

Anna Brownell Jameson's Winter Studies and Summer Rambles in Canada (1838): A European Woman's View of the New World / ANTOR, HEINZ

"Capable of Great Improvement": Catharine Parr Traill's Images of Canada in The Young Emigrants (1826) / STIERSTORFER, KLAUS

Deserts and Visions of Paradise: The Representation of the Canadian Landscape in Advertisements and Guides for Canadian Immigrants / WUST, MARKUS

Destination and Destiny: Contemporary Canadian Plays on Immigrants / GLAAP, ALBERT-REINER

News From Abroad: Canada in the View of European Travellers, Traders, and Adventurers

The Representation of Canada in Novels by Frederick Marryat and Robert Michael Ballantyne / JUST, MELANIE

Victorians Abroad: Charles Dickens and Anthony Trollope in Canada / HEINZE, MICHAEL

"Alle diese Länder sind unbekannt": Canada in Late Eighteenth and Early Nineteenth-Century German Travel Literature / PROBST, INGMAR

"A Canadian Literature?": Elizabeth Smart and the Failures of Nationalism / MCGILL, ROBERT

In Search of Cathaia - Voyages into the Unexpected / NOWAK, ELKE

Re-Enacting the Arctic Voyage: The Northwest Passage in British Literature / KERN-STÄHLER, ANNETTE

Reflections at Home: Canada in the View of Recent European Writers

Stuffed Mooseheads: Canada as (Missing) Cliché in European Theatre / INNES, CHRISTOPHER

Cultural Reductionism and the Reception of Canadian Literature in Germany / SKIDMORE, JAMES Μ .

Wildlife Abounds? The Photographic Deconstruction of a Canadian Cliché in Robert Gernhardt's Satire "Blanket Creek oder Verwilderte Wünsche" / PETERS, SUSANNE

"One Sees Only What One Knows": German Popular Literature and its Images of Canada / VOLKMANN, LAURENZ

Canada as a Role Model? Reflections of a Country in Post-War German Youth Fiction / RICHTER, MIRIAM

What makes a Canadian? Strategies of Presenting Canadianness in Teaching Materials / MERKL, MATTHIAS

List of Contributors

Backmatter

Notes:

Description based upon print version of record.

Description based on online resource; title from PDF title page (publisher's Web site, viewed 08. Jul 2019)

ISBN:

9783110919240

3110919249

OCLC:

930714013