| The Lovely Treachery of Words: Essays Selected and New Contributor(s): Kroetsch, Robert (Author) |
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ISBN: 019540694X ISBN-13: 9780195406948 Publisher: Oxford University Press, USA OUR PRICE: $33.25 Product Type: Paperback Published: May 1989 Annotation: This collection of essays by a distinguished Canadian novelist, poet, and critic concentrates on the age-old act of storytelling and its significance to individuals and society in Canada. The essays, some never before published, examine such issues as silence, violence, and eroticism in the works of Sinclair Ross, Malcolm Lowry, Margaret Lawrence, Michael Ondaatje, Alice Munro, and Willa Cather. They also deal with the long poem in relation to the uncertainty of the modern storytelling impulse, the criticism of Northrop Frye, the Canadian writer and the American literary tradition, women in Prairie fiction, nationalism and literature, and Canadian literary strategies. |
| Additional Information |
| BISAC Categories: - Literary Criticism | Canadian - Literary Collections | Essays - Language Arts & Disciplines | Linguistics - General |
| Dewey: 810.9 |
| LCCN: 89177743 |
| Series: Studies in Canadian Literature |
| Physical Information: 0.6" H x 5.3" W x 8" (0.50 lbs) 216 pages |
| Descriptions, Reviews, Etc. |
| Publisher Description: This collection of essays by a distinguished Canadian novelist, poet, and critic concentrates on the age-old act of storytelling and its significance to individuals and society in Canada. The essays, some never before published, examine such issues as silence, violence, and eroticism in the works of Sinclair Ross, Malcolm Lowry, Margaret Lawrence, Michael Ondaatje, Alice Munro, and Willa Cather. They also deal with the long poem in relation to the uncertainty of the modern storytelling impulse, the criticism of Northrop Frye, the Canadian writer and the American literary tradition, women in Prairie fiction, nationalism and literature, and Canadian literary strategies. |