The Wacousta Syndrome : : Explorations in the Canadian Langscape / / Gaile McGregor.
Early Canadians, McGregor finds, were hardly the robust adventurers of legend; in fact, they preferred the view from the fort to the call of the wild - a disconcerting through for a nation rasied on TomThomson, voyageurs, and the boy scouts. In modern times, Canadians live most comfortably in the se...
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McGregor, Gaile, author. aut http://id.loc.gov/vocabulary/relators/aut The Wacousta Syndrome : Explorations in the Canadian Langscape / Gaile McGregor. Toronto : University of Toronto Press, [2016] ©1985 1 online resource (475 p.) text txt rdacontent computer c rdamedia online resource cr rdacarrier text file PDF rda Frontmatter -- Contents -- Preface -- 1. A View from the Fort -- 2. Circum Locutions -- 3. The Frontier Antithesis -- 4. Re Definition -- 5. The House of Revelations -- 6. Harlequin Romances -- 7. Farewell, Charles Atlas -- 8. Fool-Saints and 'Noble' Savages -- 9. Hat Tricks -- 10. T-Site -- 11. The Writing on the Wall -- 12. In Medias Res -- Catalogue of 'Primary' Sources -- Author's Note restricted access http://purl.org/coar/access_right/c_16ec online access with authorization star Early Canadians, McGregor finds, were hardly the robust adventurers of legend; in fact, they preferred the view from the fort to the call of the wild - a disconcerting through for a nation rasied on TomThomson, voyageurs, and the boy scouts. In modern times, Canadians live most comfortably in the security of small towns, happily regulated by compromise and ritual. Ambivalent in character, they have limited horizons, but within these bounds they have great power and ability to control their own lives.McGregor takes as her starting point the Canadian's recoil from nature - the awesome and hostile northern wilderness - as exemplified in Major John Richardson's Wacousta. She finds in this novel a paradigm of the Canadian experience - man at aodds with generally unpleasant surroundings - a pattern that pervades and dominates our entire cultural expression. By studying Canadian cultural artifacts, particularly literary ones of the twentieth centiry, she explores the Canadian 'langscape' (the set of myths through which a culture processes its encounter with nature), aiming at nothing less than the delineation of the 'prototypical Canadian' and the 'mapping' of the Canadian sense of self. She reconstructs a comprehensive image of Canadian culture, divested of its 'American' veneer, as a rational, self-consistent, seamless whole, and concludes with a brilliant analysis of the role of the artist, especially the writer, as mediator between ourselves and our world.There is major critical intelligence at work here. McGregor presents a grand challenge to those who think they know about our literature, our art, and cultural identity to refine and re0think, possibly even change, their current views. Mode of access: Internet via World Wide Web. In English. Description based on online resource; title from PDF title page (publisher's Web site, viewed 30. Aug 2021) Canadian literature History and criticism. National characteristics, Canadian. LITERARY CRITICISM / Canadian. bisacsh Title is part of eBook package: De Gruyter University of Toronto Press eBook-Package Archive 1933-1999 9783110490947 https://doi.org/10.3138/9781442683198 https://www.degruyter.com/isbn/9781442683198 Cover https://www.degruyter.com/cover/covers/9781442683198.jpg |
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