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Other selves : animals in the Canadian literary imagination / edited by Janice Fiamengo.

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Other Selves: Animals in the Canadian Literary Imagination begins with the premise, first suggested by Margaret Atwood in The Animals in That Country (1968), that animals have occupied a peculiarly central position in the Canadian imagination. Unlike the longer-settled countries of Europe or the mor...

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Online Access: Full Text (via ProQuest)
Other Authors: Fiamengo, Janice Anne, 1964-
Format: eBook
Language:English
Published: Ottawa : University of Ottawa Press, 2007.
Series:Re-appraisals, Canadian writers ; 31.
Subjects:
Animals in literature.
Human-animal relationships in literature.
Table of Contents:
  • The Animals in This Country": Animals in the Canadian Literary Imagination / Janice Fiamengo
  • pt. I. Reading Strategies for Animal Writing
  • (B)othering the Theory: Approaching the Unapproachable in Bear and other Realistic Animal Narratives / Gwendolyn Guth
  • "Ontological Applause": Metaphor and Homology in the Poetry of Don McKay / Susan Fisher
  • "Drawn from Nature": Katherine Govier's Audubon and the Trauma of Extinction / Cynthia Sugars
  • Lick me, Bite me, Hear me, Write me: Tracking Animals between Postcolonialism and Ecocriticism / Travis V. Mason
  • Yann Martel's Life of Pi: Back in the World, or "The Story with Animals in the Better Story" / Jack Robinson
  • pt. II. Animal Writers
  • "So That Nothing May be Lost": Thomas McIlwraith's Birds of Ontario / Christoph Irmscher
  • Marshall Saunders and the Urbanization of the Animal / Gwendolyn Davies
  • Charles G.D. Robert's cosmic Animals: Aspects of "Mythticism" in Earth's Enigmas / Thomas Hodd
  • St. Archie of the Wild: Grey Owl's Account of his "Natural" Conversion / Albert Braz
  • "At War with Nature": Animals in Timothy Findley's The Wars / Peter Webb
  • Fear, Friendship, and Delight: The appeal of Animals in the Children's Poetry of Dennis Lee / Greg Maillet
  • pt. III. The Politics of Animal Representation
  • When Elephants Weep: Reading The White Bone as a Sentimental Animal Story / Ella Soper-Jones
  • "The Mania for Killing": Hunting and Collecting in Seton's The Arctic Prairies / Misao Dean
  • The Politics of Hunting in Canadian women's Narratives of Travel / Wendy Roy
  • National Species: Ecology, Allegory, and Indigeneity in the Wolf Stories of Roberts, Seton, and Mowat / Brian Johnson.

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