Compares the cultural productions of Canada and the US - literature, but also film, opera, and even theme parks - providing a reassessment of Canadian Studies within a comparative framework Frontcover -- Contents -- Preface and Acknowledgments --...
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Hochschule für Wirtschaft und Umwelt Nürtingen-Geislingen, Bibliothek Nürtingen
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Compares the cultural productions of Canada and the US - literature, but also film, opera, and even theme parks - providing a reassessment of Canadian Studies within a comparative framework Frontcover -- Contents -- Preface and Acknowledgments -- Introduction -- Part I. The Genesis of Canadian and Comparative North American Studies -- Mapping North America: Comparative North American Literature and Its Contexts -- The Scottish Invention of Canadian Literature? John Buchan in Canada -- Part II. Comparative North American Studies: Literary Case Studies -- "Poetics of the Potent": Yann Martel's Life of Pi, Edgar Allan Poe's The Narrative of Arthur Gordon Pym of Nantucket, and Modes of Transcreation -- "Wanting to Light out for Tender Tenantless Territories": Reading Landscape in Robert Kroetsch's The Hornbooks of Rita K (2001) and Mark Anthony Jarman's 19 Knives (2000) -- "Landscape-of-the-Heart": Transgenerational Memory and Relationality in Roy Kiyooka's Mothertalk: Life Stories of Mary Kiyoshi Kiyooka -- Performing Shame: Theatrical Motifs in the Works of Alice Munro and Alison Bechdel -- Timothy Findley's "Stones": Names, Symbols, and Stories -- Part III. Comparative North American Studies beyond Print -- Comparative North American Opera: Individualism and National Identity -- "Who Really Lives There?": (Meta-)Tourism and the Canada Pavilion at Epcot -- Contact Prints: Reading Margaret Atwood's The Door and the MaddAddam Trilogy through the Lens of Photography -- Cup-idity, or Poetic Larceny in Transatlantic Contexts: Margaret Atwood's "Stealing the Hummingbird Cup" -- Part IV. Coda: Reingard Nischik and Transatlantic Canadian Criticism -- Across the "Ocean of the Page": Nischik and Kroetsch Gaining Ground -- Reingard, Queen of the Night -- Photo Log: 30 Years of Working in Canadian Criticism in Pictures -- Index
