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Strange things : the malevolent North in Canadian literature  Cover Image Book Book

Strange things : the malevolent North in Canadian literature

Summary: The author writes of the imaginative mystique of the Canadian North. In discussing the work of writers like Robert Service, Robertson Davies, Alice Munro, and Margaret Laurence, she talks of northern folklore, myth, and imagery.

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  • ISBN: 0198119763
  • ISBN: 97801981197610
  • Physical Description: vii, 126 p. ; 23 cm. : ill.
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  • Publisher: Oxford : Clarendon Press, 1995.

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General Note:
Originally presented as the Clarendon Lectures at Oxford University.
Bibliography, etc. Note: Includes bibliographical references (p. 117-120) and index.
Subject: Evil in literature
Horror tales, Canadian -- History and criticism
National characteristics, Canadian, in literature
Gothic revival (Literature) -- Canada
Myth in literature
Canadian literature -- History and criticism
Nature in literature
Wilderness areas in literature
Canada, Northern, in literature

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  • 1 of 1 copy available at Portage la Prairie Regional Library.

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