Book contents
- Frontmatter
- Contents
- Preface and Acknowledgments
- Introduction
- Part I The Genesis of Canadian and Comparative North American Studies
- Part II Comparative North American Studies: Literary Case Studies
- “Poetics of the Potent”: Yann Martel's Life of Pi, Edgar Allan Poe's The Narrative of Arthur Gordon Pym of Nantucket, and Modes of Transcreation
- “Wanting to Light out for Tender Tenantless Territories”: Reading Landscape in Robert Kroetsch's The Hornbooks of Rita K (2001) and Mark Anthony Jarman's 19 Knives (2000)
- “Landscape–of–the–Heart”: Transgenerational Memory and Relationality in Roy Kiyooka's Mothertalk: Life Stories of Mary Kiyoshi Kiyooka
- Performing Shame: Theatrical Motifs in the Works of Alice Munro and Alison Bechdel
- Timothy Findley's “Stones”: Names, Symbols, and Stories
- Part III Comparative North American Studies beyond Print
- Part IV Coda: Reingard Nischik and Transatlantic Canadian Criticism
- Index
Timothy Findley's “Stones”: Names, Symbols, and Stories
from Part II - Comparative North American Studies: Literary Case Studies
Published online by Cambridge University Press: 26 October 2019
- Frontmatter
- Contents
- Preface and Acknowledgments
- Introduction
- Part I The Genesis of Canadian and Comparative North American Studies
- Part II Comparative North American Studies: Literary Case Studies
- “Poetics of the Potent”: Yann Martel's Life of Pi, Edgar Allan Poe's The Narrative of Arthur Gordon Pym of Nantucket, and Modes of Transcreation
- “Wanting to Light out for Tender Tenantless Territories”: Reading Landscape in Robert Kroetsch's The Hornbooks of Rita K (2001) and Mark Anthony Jarman's 19 Knives (2000)
- “Landscape–of–the–Heart”: Transgenerational Memory and Relationality in Roy Kiyooka's Mothertalk: Life Stories of Mary Kiyoshi Kiyooka
- Performing Shame: Theatrical Motifs in the Works of Alice Munro and Alison Bechdel
- Timothy Findley's “Stones”: Names, Symbols, and Stories
- Part III Comparative North American Studies beyond Print
- Part IV Coda: Reingard Nischik and Transatlantic Canadian Criticism
- Index
- Type
- Chapter
- Information
- Gained GroundPerspectives on Canadian and Comparative North American Studies, pp. 133 - 146Publisher: Boydell & BrewerPrint publication year: 2018