The Island Motif in the Fiction of L. M. Montgomery, Margaret Laurence, Margaret Atwood, and Other Canadian Women Novelists Contributor(s): Daemmrich, Horst (Other), Sheckels, Theodore F., Jr. (Author) |
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ISBN: 0820467928 ISBN-13: 9780820467924 Publisher: Peter Lang Inc., International Academic Publi OUR PRICE: $95.44 Product Type: Hardcover Published: September 2003 |
Additional Information |
BISAC Categories: - Literary Criticism | American - General - Philosophy | Methodology - Literary Criticism | English, Irish, Scottish, Welsh |
Dewey: 813.509 |
LCCN: 2003004890 |
Series: Studies on Themes and Motifs in Literature, |
Physical Information: 0.6" H x 5.9" W x 8.9" (0.85 lbs) 208 pages |
Themes: - Cultural Region - British Isles - Sex & Gender - Feminine |
Descriptions, Reviews, Etc. |
Publisher Description: Islands, both literal and figurative, recur in fiction authored by many prominent Canadian women writers. Using a critical lens based on Northrop Frye and Julia Kristeva, this book closely examines fourteen novels by eight twentieth-century authors, emphasizing works by L. M. Montgomery, Margaret Laurence, and Margaret Atwood. Several of the novels, such as Montgomery's Anne of Green Gables, Laurence's A Jest of God and The Diviners, Atwood's Surfacing and Bodily Harm, Alice Munro's The Lives of Girls and Women, and Gabrielle Roy's The Tin Flute, are among Canada's most well-known. Some of the works discussed present the island as a redemptive retreat, but in most cases the island's role is ambiguous, ranging from a temporary respite from life's pressures to a nightmarish trap. |