Land sliding imagining space, presence, and power in Canadian writing

New, W. H. (William Herbert) 1938- (Author).

Summary: Why have so many of this century's prominent political and literary critics wanted to find a single metaphor to describe the character of Canada? Why have so many used land-based metaphors in reference to the divisions between centre and margin, colony and empire, wealth and power? W.H. New, in Land Sliding: Imagining Space, Presence, and Power in Canadian Writing, investigates this established paradigm by examining why so many writers have accepted the land as a comprehensive image of nationhood. Is there in fact, he questions, a landscape that is 'natural, ' unmediated by social values and literary representation?

Record details

ISBN: 9781442676565 (electronic bk.)
ISBN: 1442676566 (electronic bk.)
ISBN: 0802041191 (bound)
ISBN: 0802079628 (pbk.)
ISBN: 9780802079626
ISBN: 9780802041197 (bound)
Physical Description: electronic resource
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1 online resource (xvii, 278 p.) : ill.
Publisher: Toronto, Ont. : University of Toronto Press, c1997.

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General Note:	Multi-User. Terms of use - CatBulkString:jan.03.13 CatMonthString:august.17 CatMonthString:jan.13 Issued as part of the desLibris books collection. Multi-user. CatMonthString:jun.14
Bibliography, etc. Note:	Includes bibliographical references (p. [231]-258) and index.
Formatted Contents Note:	Land-Forms: An Introduction -- 1. Landing: Literature, Contact, and the Natural World -- 2. Land-Office: Literature, Property, and Power -- 3. Landed: Literature and Region -- 4. Landscape: Literature, Language, Space, and Site.
Source of Description Note:	Description based on print version record.