"'Survival' is the most startling book ever written about Canadian literature. It is ... a book of criticism, a manifesto, and a collection of personal and subversive remarks. Margaret Atwood begins by asking: 'what have been the central preoccupations of our poetry and fiction?' Her answer is twofold: 'survival and …
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"'Survival' is the most startling book ever written about Canadian literature. It is ... a book of criticism, a manifesto, and a collection of personal and subversive remarks. Margaret Atwood begins by asking: 'what have been the central preoccupations of our poetry and fiction?' Her answer is twofold: 'survival and victims.' Atwood applies this thesis in twelve brilliant, witty and impassioned chapters. From Moodie to MacLennan to Blais, from Pratt to Purdy to Newlove, from Godfrey to Gibson, she lights up familiar books in wholly new perspectives." The themes are: survival; nature the monster; animal victims; early people (indians and eskimos); ancestral totems (explorers and settlers); family portrait: masks of the bear; failed sacrifices (the reluctant immigrant); the casual incident of death; the paralyzed artist; ice women vs. earth mothers; Quebec: burning mansions; and, jail-breaks and recreations.
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Survival
Paperback, 302 pages
English language
Published 2004 by M & S.
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- 978-0-7710-0872-6Copied ISBN!
- OCLC Number:
- 53396908
Survival
Paperback, 296 pages
English language
Published by McClelland & Stewart.
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- 978-0-7710-0832-0Copied ISBN!
Survival
unknown binding, 287 pages
English language
Published 1972 by Anansi.
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- 978-0-88784-713-4Copied ISBN!
- OCLC Number:
- 1288988
Survival
Paperback, 288 pages
Published by McClelland & Stewart.
- ISBN:
- 978-0-88784-613-7Copied ISBN!
Essai sur la littérature canadienne
266 pages
English language
Published 1987 by Boréal.
- ISBN:
- 978-2-89052-183-4Copied ISBN!
Sabaibaru
329 pages
Japanese language
Published 1995 by Ochanomizu Shobō.
- ISBN:
- 978-4-275-01593-8Copied ISBN!
- OCLC Number:
- 35934239
Survival
328 pages
English language
Published 2012 by House of Anansi Press.
- ISBN:
- 978-1-77089-252-1Copied ISBN!
Survival
English language
Published 1991 by Anansi.
- ISBN:
- 978-0-88784-522-2Copied ISBN!
- OCLC Number:
- 257158368
Survival
English language
Published 2013 by ReadHowYouWant.com, Limited.
- ISBN:
- 978-0-3693-1707-0Copied ISBN!
Survival
English language
Published 2012 by House of Anansi Press.
- ISBN:
- 978-1-77089-253-8Copied ISBN!
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