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Title History, literature, and the writing of the Canadian Prairies / edited by Alison Calder and Robert Wardhaugh.

Imprint Winnipeg : University of Manitoba Press, c2005.

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Location Call No. OPAC Message Status
 Axe 2nd Floor Stacks  810.99712 H629 2005    ---  Axe Inventory 2024
Description 310 p. ; 23 cm.
Bibliography Includes bibliographical references (p. [289]-308).
Contents Introduction : When is the prairie? / Alison Calder, Robert Wardhaugh -- The Tantalizing possibility of living on the plains / Frances W. Kaye -- The Melting of time in Thomas Wharton's Icefields / Claire Omhovere -- Autogeology : limestone and life narrative in Carol Shields's The stone diaries / Nina van Gessel -- Coyote as culprit : 'her-story' and the feminist fantastic in Gail Anderson-Dargatz's The cure for death by lightning / Heidi Slettedahl Macpherson -- Robert Kroetsch, Marshall McLuhan, and Canada's prairie postmodernism : the Aberhart effect / Russell Morton Brown -- The "Precarious perch" of the "decent woman" : spatial (de)constructions of gender in women's prairie memoirs / S. Leigh Matthews -- Documents in the postmodern long prairie poem / Dennis Cooley -- Reconstructions of literary settings in North America's prairie regions : a cross-cultural comparison of Red Cloud, Nebraska, and Neepawa, Manitoba / Sarah Payne -- A Timeless imagined prairie : return and regeneration in Margaret Laurence's Manawaka novels / Debra Dudek -- Time's grip along the Athabasca, 1920s and 1930s / Cam McEachern.
Subject Prairie Provinces -- In literature.
Added Author Wardhaugh, Robert Alexander, 1967-
Calder, Alison, 1969-
ISBN 0887556825 : $24.95
9780887556821
Standard No. NLC 20059011335
YDXCP 2237181
NLGGC 292533179
NZ1 10665950
AU@ 000043423900

 
    
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