Download or read book Margaret Laurence Al Purdy a Friendship in Letters written by Margaret Laurence and published by . This book was released on 1993 with total page 432 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Download or read book Margaret Laurence Al Purdy written by John Lennox and published by . This book was released on 1993-04-01 with total page pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Download or read book Margaret Laurence written by David Staines and published by University of Ottawa Press. This book was released on 2001-06-26 with total page 181 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This book highlights the accomplishments of one of Canada's most acclaimed and beloved fiction writers, Margaret Laurence. The essays in this collection explore her body of work as well as her influence on young Canadian writers today.
Download or read book Margaret Laurence written by Donez Xiques and published by Dundurn. This book was released on 2005-09-24 with total page 419 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Traces Laurences literary growth, focusing on the years she spent in Africa. Includes a previously unpublished short story.
Download or read book Divining Margaret Laurence written by Nora Foster Stovel and published by McGill-Queen's Press - MQUP. This book was released on 2008-08-19 with total page 430 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Margaret Laurence is justly famous for her Manawaka cycle of Canadian novels, but her work extends from Canada to Africa and includes poetry and prose, children's and adult literature, memoir and travel-writing.
Download or read book Racial Ethnic Gender and Class Representations in Margaret Laurence s Writings written by Andreea Topor-Constantin and published by Cambridge Scholars Publishing. This book was released on 2013-07-26 with total page 295 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Racial, Ethnic, Gender and Class Representations in Margaret Laurence’s Writings is a study on Canada, Canadian literature and Margaret Laurence’s works in particular, thus addressing various kinds of readership. This book avoids the danger of limiting the approach to solely focusing attention on Canada by presenting a thorough analysis of various literary genres, allowing the book to be of interest to all literature lovers. Furthermore, the book explores the parallelism between life and fiction, emphasising Laurence’s biographic and realist elements and their influence on the writer’s fictional writing, revealing real and imaginary worlds which would appeal to anybody’s literary needs. This major contribution to the already existent criticism of Margaret Laurence’s works lies in the analysis of her work as an entity, balancing both terms of the common binary oppositions: fiction versus non-fiction, Africa versus Canada, white versus Black or Metis. In spite of critical comments which might be raised, Andreea Topor-Constantin comments on how the voice of the marginal makes itself heard throughout the author’s books, underlying Laurence’s emphasis on characterisation and her genuine concern for people. This book covers all aspects of Laurence’s life and fiction: from the African to the writer’s Canadian background, from adults’ to children’s literature, from novels to short stories, from essays to letters, in order to challenge readers’ perceptions of race, ethnicity, gender and class.
Download or read book The Life Of Margaret Laurence written by James King and published by Vintage Canada. This book was released on 2012-02-21 with total page 573 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: The magnificent and long-awaited biography of the beloved writer who gave us the Manawaka novels, including The Diviners and The Stone Angel.
Download or read book Sisters Under the Skin Margaret Laurence and Vaasanthi written by Dr. Sheela P. Karthick and published by Shanlax Publications. This book was released on 2022-01-01 with total page 229 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: The book is a masterpiece and should be kept in the bookshelf of every household, and also be read by all critical minded individuals, as to fully come to terms with what the women are passing through in the present day society.
Download or read book Encyclopedia of Post Colonial Literatures in English written by Eugene Benson and published by Routledge. This book was released on 2004-11-30 with total page 1950 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: " ... Documents the history and development of [Post-colonial literatures in English, together with English and American literature] and includes original research relating to the literatures of some 50 countries and territories. In more than 1,600 entries written by more than 600 internationally recognized scholars, it explores the effect of the colonial and post-colonial experience on literatures in English worldwide.
Download or read book The Tomorrow Tamer written by Margaret Laurence and published by New Canadian Library. This book was released on 2008-01-01 with total page 278 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: The ten stories gathered together in The Tomorrow-Tamer are Margaret Laurence’s first published fiction. Set in raucous and often terrifying Ghana, where shiny Jaguars and modern jazz jostle for eminence against fetish figures, tribal rites, and the unchanging beat of jungle drums, the stories tell of individuals, European and African, trying to come to terms with the frightening world brought about by the country’s new freedom. With the same compassion and understanding she would bring to her later fiction set in Canada, Laurence succeeds brilliantly in capturing the atmosphere of a continent and of individual men and women struggling for survival under the impact of the wind of change.
Download or read book Writing in Dust written by Jenny Kerber and published by Wilfrid Laurier Univ. Press. This book was released on 2011-03-17 with total page 274 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Writing in Dust is the first sustained study of prairie Canadian literature from an ecocritical perspective. Drawing on recent scholarship in environmental theory and criticism, Jenny Kerber considers the ways in which prairie writers have negotiated processes of ecological and cultural change in the region from the early twentieth century to the present. The book begins by proposing that current environmental problems in the prairie region can be understood by examining the longstanding tendency to describe its diverse terrain in dualistic terms—either as an idyllic natural space or as an irredeemable wasteland. It inquires into the sources of stories that naturalize ecological prosperity and hardship and investigates how such narratives have been deployed from the period of colonial settlement to the present. It then considers the ways in which works by both canonical and more recent writers ranging from Robert Stead, W.O. Mitchell, and Margaret Laurence to Tim Lilburn, Louise Halfe, and Thomas King consistently challenge these dualistic landscape myths, proposing alternatives for the development of more ecologically just and sustainable relationships among people and between humans and their physical environments. Writing in Dust asserts that “reading environmentally” can help us to better understand a host of issues facing prairie inhabitants today, including the environmental impacts of industrial agriculture, resource extraction, climate change, shifting urban–rural demographics, the significance of Indigenous understandings of human–nature relationships, and the complex, often contradictory meanings of eco-cultural metaphors of alien/invasiveness, hybridity, and wildness.
Download or read book Dangerous Writing written by Carmen Luz Fuentes-Vásquez and published by Rodopi. This book was released on 2013 with total page 296 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This book examines the literary construction of personal identity through autobiographical narratives by three significant writers analysed together for the first time: the Scottish Willa Muir (1890-1970), the Canadian Margaret Laurence (1926-1987), and the New Zealander Janet Frame (1924-2004). These apparently dissimilar authors suffered not only geographical, but also political marginality: they were women from the working-class or struggling middle-class, striving to be considered as professional writers, and emerging from countries that might be felt to be under the shadows of economic and political world powers such as England and the United States. During their lifetimes, they exerted themselves to overcome prejudices about class, gender and ethnicity. They experienced war and the post-war era, and lived through most of the twentieth century, being accurate witnesses and critics of their times. As it discusses major writers who are iconic for the development of the literatures of their respective countries, this book also attracts readers who are interested in learning more about the lives of these remarkable women, the way their socio-historical and geographical circumstances affected their writing and how they expressed such concerns in their autobiographies and other fictional and non-fictional works, besides considering them in relation to contemporary women writers —and autobiographers— who underwent similar experiences.
Download or read book Professing English written by Sandra Djwa and published by University of Toronto Press. This book was released on 2002-01-01 with total page 510 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Roy Daniells (1902-1979), an English professor who finished his career at the University of British Columbia, and an outstanding scholar, teacher and poet, influenced at least four generations of students.
Download or read book The Ivory Thought written by Gerald Lynch and published by University of Ottawa Press. This book was released on 2008-02-28 with total page 282 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: If one poet can be said to be the Canadian poet, that poet is Al Purdy (1918–2000). Numerous eminent scholars and writers have attested to this pre-eminent status. George Bowering described him as “the world’s most Canadian poet” (1970), while Sam Solecki titled his book-length study of Purdy The Last Canadian Poet (1999). In The Ivory Thought: Essays on Al Purdy, a group of seventeen scholars, critics, writers, and educators appraise and reappraise Purdy’s contribution to English literature. They explore Purdy’s continuing significance to contemporary writers; the life he dedicated to literature and the persona he crafted; the influences acting on his development as a poet; the ongoing scholarly projects of editing and publishing his writing; particular poems and individual books of poetry, fiction, and non-fiction; and the larger themes in his work, such as the Canadian North and the predominant importance of place. In addition, two contemporary poets pay tribute with original poems.
Download or read book Changing Women Changing History written by Diana Lynn Pedersen and published by McGill-Queen's Press - MQUP. This book was released on 1996 with total page 276 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Changing Women, Changing History is a bibliographic guide to the scholarship, both English and French, on Canadian's women's history. Organized under broad subject headings, and accompanied by author and subject indices it is accessible and comprehensive.
Download or read book Al Purdy s Ghost written by Martin Avery and published by Lulu.com. This book was released on 2008-12-17 with total page 74 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: 100 poems inspired by the ghost of Al Purdy
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