The island motif in the fiction of L.M. Montgomery, Margaret Laurence, Margaret Atwood, and other Canadian women novelists
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Word Count
51,500 words, Guess
Page Count
206 pages
Identifiers
- Open LibraryOL3672896M
- ISBN-100820467928
- OCLC Control Number51855443
- Library of Congress Control Number2003004890
- Goodreads65733
Classifications
- DDC813/.50932142
- LCCPR9192.6.I75 S54 2003
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."--Jacket.
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- Studies on themes and motifs in literature,
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