The Rhetoric of Canadian Writing / / edited by Conny Steenman-Marcusse.

The sixteen articles in The Rhetoric of Canadian Writing are a welcome contribution to the growing interest in Canadian culture, indicating its variety - Aboriginal, Anglo-Canadian and French-Canadian culture and their interrelationships are all represented. In classical oratory the term "rheto...

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Superior document:Textxet: Studies in Comparative Literature ; 38
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Place / Publishing House:Leiden; , Boston : : BRILL,, 2002.
Year of Publication:2002
Language:English
Series:Textxet: Studies in Comparative Literature ; 38.
Physical Description:1 online resource (308 pages)
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Table of Contents:
  • Introduction: The Rhetoric of Canadian Writing
  • 1 Susan SWAN: The Writer's Conscience and the Rhetoric of Canadian Writing
  • 2 Louise DUPRÉ: Women's Writing in Quebec: From Rhetoric to New Social Propositions
  • 3 Jaap LINTVELT: Quebec: City and Identity
  • 4 E.F. DYCK: The Places of Aboriginal Writing 2000 in Canada: The Novel
  • 5 Eric MILLER: Elizabeth Simcoe and the Fate of the Picturesque
  • 6 Suzanne JAMES: The "Indians" of Catharine Parr Traill's The Backwoods of Canada
  • 7 Martin REININK: The Rhetoric of Emerging Literatures
  • 8 Kathleen VENEMA: Shifting Rhetorics of Space in English-Canadian Exploration Literature
  • 9 Monique DULL: Kinship and Nation in Amelia (1848) and Anne of Green Gables (1908)
  • 10 Conny STEENMAN-MARCUSE: The Rhetoric of Autobiography in Susan Swan's The Biggest Modern Woman of the World
  • 11 Anna BRANACH-KALLAS: Lovers and/or Enemies: Love and Nationality in Nancy Huston's The Mark of the Angel
  • 12 Coral Ann HOWELLS: Margaret Atwood's Discourse of Nation and National Identity in the 1990s
  • 13 Hans BAK: Writing Newfoundland, Writing Canada: Wayne Johnston's The Colony of Unrequited Dreams
  • 14 Robert DRUCE: A Visiting Distance: Patrick Anderson, Poet, Autobiographer, and Exile
  • 15 Graciela MARTÍNEZ-ZALCE: Montreal: Several Versions of a City
  • 16 J.M. MACLENNAN AND John MOFFATT: An Island View of the World: Insularity in the Popular Writing of Stompin' Tom Connors
  • Notes on Contributors.