Land Sliding : : Imagining Space, Presence, and Power in Canadian Writing / / W.H. New.

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 do so many use land-based metaphors to ask about the divisions between centres and margins, colony and empire, wealth and power? W.H. New, in Lan...

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Superior document:Title is part of eBook package: De Gruyter University of Toronto Press eBook-Package Archive 1933-1999
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Place / Publishing House:Toronto : : University of Toronto Press, , [2016]
©1997
Year of Publication:2016
Language:English
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Physical Description:1 online resource (272 p.)
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Table of Contents:
  • Frontmatter
  • Contents
  • List of Plates
  • Acknowledgments
  • Sources and Permissions
  • 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
  • Notes
  • Works Cited
  • Index