Download or read book The Literary Achievement of Gabrielle Roy written by Allison Mitcham and published by Fredericton, N.B. : York Press. This book was released on 1983 with total page 48 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: "This study examines Gabrielle Roy's extraordinary capacities as novelist, short-story writer, and reporter. It shows how throughout her writing career, Roy has demonstrated that she is not only a unique Canadian literary figure, but that she belongs to the mainstream of twentieth-century literature. Quietly independent, aloof from cliques and schools, she is guided by her own vivid memories and delicate insights to record truths which are universally applicable.While stressing Roy's difference from her contemporaries and predecessors - both in Canada and abroad - this study cites comparisons between certain aspects of her work and those of other writers where such analogies seem to contribute to an understanding of Roy's achievements." -- back cover

Download or read book The Black Atlantic Reconsidered written by Winfried Siemerling and published by McGill-Queen's Press - MQUP. This book was released on 2015-05-01 with total page 560 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Readers are often surprised to learn that black writing in Canada is over two centuries old. Ranging from letters, editorials, sermons, and slave narratives to contemporary novels, plays, poetry, and non-fiction, black Canadian writing represents a rich body of literary and cultural achievement. The Black Atlantic Reconsidered is the first comprehensive work to explore black Canadian literature from its beginnings to the present in the broader context of the black Atlantic world. Winfried Siemerling traces the evolution of black Canadian witnessing and writing from slave testimony in New France and the 1783 "Book of Negroes" through the work of contemporary black Canadian writers including George Elliott Clarke, Austin Clarke, Dionne Brand, David Chariandy, Wayde Compton, Esi Edugyan, Marlene NourbeSe Philip, and Lawrence Hill. Arguing that black writing in Canada is deeply imbricated in a historic transnational network, Siemerling explores the powerful presence of black Canadian history, slavery, and the Underground Railroad, and the black diaspora in the work of these authors. Individual chapters examine the literature that has emerged from Quebec, Nova Scotia, the Prairies, and British Columbia, with attention to writing in both English and French. A major survey of black writing and cultural production, The Black Atlantic Reconsidered brings into focus important works that shed light not only on Canada's literature and history, but on the transatlantic black diaspora and modernity.

Download or read book The Literary Vision of Gabrielle Roy written by Paula Gilbert Lewis and published by Summa Publications, Inc.. This book was released on 1984 with total page 340 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:

Download or read book The Tin Flute written by Gabrielle Roy and published by New Canadian Library. This book was released on 1989 with total page 394 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: A family in the Saint-Henri slums of Montreal struggles to overcome poverty and ignorance while searching for love.

Download or read book Gabrielle Roy written by André Vanasse and published by Dundurn. This book was released on 2007-01-01 with total page 173 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: In 1945, Gabrielle Roy skyrocketed to fame and fortune when her first novel, The Tin Flute, was an instant hit. Over 700,000 copies sold in the United States, and the book was awarded the prestigious Prix Fna in France. In Canada, The Tin Flute received a Governor Generals Award. Gabrielle Roy dedicated herself to her vocation as a writer.

Download or read book Little Resilience written by Eli MacLaren and published by . This book was released on 2020-09-23 with total page 256 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Creating a national literature through a series of original poetry booklets.

Download or read book The Road Past Altamont written by Gabrielle Roy and published by McClelland & Stewart. This book was released on 1976 with total page 164 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: First published in French in 1966, The Road Past Altamont pierces to the heart of a child's world, craeting a delicate, yet substantial network of impressions, emotions, and relationships. In her writing, Gabrielle Roy allowed "nothing extraneous or false to stand," according to the translator, Joyce Marshall. The literary style of Roy, whose fiction reflects her childhood on the Canadian prairie, has often been compared to that of Willa Cather. The Road Past Altamont takes a sensitive French-Canadian girl, Christine, from childhood innocence to maturity. Four connected stories reveal profound moments during her early years in the vastness of Manitoba. Christine's testament to Grandmother's creative power, her great adventure with an old gentleman at Lake Winnipeg and her clandestine one with a crude family of movers, her journey through time and space with aging Maman - all these characters and events convey Gabrielle Roy's preoccupation with childhood and old age, the passage of time and mystery of change, and the artist's relation to the world.

Download or read book A Few Acres of Snow written by Paul Simpson-Housley and published by Dundurn. This book was released on 1992-09 with total page 295 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: These 22 essays explore how poets, artists, and writers have addressed the physical essence of Canada.

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Download or read book Myth and Morality in Alexandre Chenevert by Gabrielle Roy written by Paul Socken and published by Frankfurt am Main : P. Lang. This book was released on 1987 with total page 112 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: The purpose of this study is to present two different but complementary readings of the novel and to offer the reader some sources and origins for what was later to develop into the novel. Chapter One, «Mythic Dimensions», presents a «vertical» approach, in that it examines Alexandre's revelation, his encounter with a divine presence and a transcendent reality. Chapter Two of this volume, «Morality», is an analysis of the text from a humanist viewpoint, primarily taking into account Alexandre's relationship with his fellow man, what might be termed a «horizontal» study. The novel sustains both levels of interpretation, and others, and proves in the process that it is perhaps Gabrielle Roy's most profound work.

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Download or read book Women s Literature written by Claire Buck and published by Sterling/Main Street. This book was released on 1994 with total page 930 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: The first reference guide to the extraordinary riches of women's writing through the ages and throughout the world. Over 5,000 A-Z entries covering individuals, works and movements.

Download or read book Women s Writing in Canada written by Patricia Demers and published by University of Toronto Press. This book was released on with total page 357 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:

Download or read book The Myth of the Lost Paradise in the Novels of Jacques Poulin written by Paul Socken and published by Fairleigh Dickinson Univ Press. This book was released on 1993 with total page 140 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Socken analyzes the shape and direction of Poulin's creation narratives as they evolve in the novels and demonstrates their presence from the earliest quasi-political Un cheval pour mon royaume to the highly introspective Le Vieux Chagrin. The novels move from an outer-directed concept of the lost paradise as a state to be attained beyond the self to a sense of the lost paradise as the kingdom within, achievable first on the individual level as self-knowledge and only afterwards on the social level. Poulin introduces the theme of the soul and his personal concept of it, as the soul for him is proof of the inner life that embodies the qualities of tranquility and tenderness associated with the lost paradise. Lost paradise literature is universal and timeless. Poulin's portrayal is placed in historical context so that his contribution to the genre can be fully appreciated. Referring to studies by such critics as Mircea Eliade, Northrop Frye, Jerome S. Bruner, and Jack J.

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Download or read book The Bloomsbury Guide to Women s Literature written by Claire Buck and published by New York : Prentice Hall General Reference. This book was released on 1992 with total page 1194 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Provides biographies, novel synopses, poems, plays, and essays by or about women, and discusses feminist literature.

Download or read book A Critical Bibliography of French Literature The twentieth century ed by D W Alden and R A Brooks written by David Clark Cabeen and published by . This book was released on 1947 with total page 680 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: