Strange Things: the malevolent north in Canadian literature
by Margaret atwood
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- 0195413512
- ISBN 13
- 9780195413519
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Strange Things explores a part of the imaginative landscape of one of the most esteemed and popular of contemporary writers, Atwood's witty and informative book focuses on the imaginative mystique of the wilderness of the CanadianNorth. She discussed the "Grey Owl Syndrome of white writers going native; the folklore arising from the mysterious- and disastrous-Franklin expedition of the nineteenth century; the myth of the reader snow monster, the Wendigo; the relations between nature wring and new forms of Gothic; and how a fresh generation of women writers in Canada have adapted the imagery of the /canadian North for the exploration of contemporary themes of gender, the family, and sexuality...
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- Farrellbooks (CA)
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- Title
- Strange Things: the malevolent north in Canadian literature
- Author
- Margaret atwood
- Format/Binding
- Trade paperback
- Book Condition
- Used - Fine
- Quantity Available
- 1
- Binding
- Paperback
- ISBN 10
- 0195413512
- ISBN 13
- 9780195413519
- Publisher
- Clarendon Press
- Place of Publication
- Oxford, NY
- Date Published
- 1995
- Size
- 5x8
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