Gained Ground
Perspectives on Canadian and Comparative North American Studies
1st Edition
Published on 31. October 2018
252 pages
978-1-78744-392-1 (ISBN)
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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.
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Eva Gruber | Caroline Rosenthal
Gained Ground
Perspectives on Canadian and Comparative North American Studies
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10/2018
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Introduction - Eva Gruber and Caroline Rosenthal
PART I. THE GENESIS OF CANADIAN AND COMPARATIVE NORTH AMERICAN STUDIES
Mapping North America: Comparative North American Literature and Its Contexts - Bettina Mack
The Scottish Invention of Canadian Literature? John Buchan in Canada - Silvia Mergenthal
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 - Jutta Ernst
"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) - Claire Omhovère
"Landscape-of-the-Heart": Transgenerational Memory and Relationality in Roy Kiyooka's Mothertalk: Life Stories of Mary Kiyoshi Kiyooka - Katja Sarkowsky
Performing Shame: Theatrical Motifs in the Works of Alice Munro and Alison Bechdel - Marlene Goldman
Timothy Findley's "Stones": Names, Symbols, and Stories - Sherrill Grace
PART III. COMPARATIVE NORTH AMERICAN STUDIES BEYOND PRINT
Comparative North American Opera: Individualism and National Identity - Linda Hutcheon and Michael Hutcheon
"Who Really Lives There?": (Meta-)Tourism and the Canada Pavilion at Epcot - Florian Freitag
Contact Prints: Reading Margaret Atwood's The Door and the MaddAddam Trilogy through the Lens of Photography - Julia Breitbach
Cup-idity, or Poetic Larceny in Transatlantic Contexts: Margaret Atwood's "Stealing the Hummingbird Cup" - Shuli Barzilai
PART IV. CODA: REINGARD NISCHIK AND TRANSATLANTIC CANADIAN CRITICISM
Across the "Ocean of the Page": Nischik and Kroetsch Gaining Ground - Aritha van Herk
Reingard, Queen of the Night - Margaret Atwood
Photo Log: 30 Years of Working in Canadian Criticism in Pictures
PART I. THE GENESIS OF CANADIAN AND COMPARATIVE NORTH AMERICAN STUDIES
Mapping North America: Comparative North American Literature and Its Contexts - Bettina Mack
The Scottish Invention of Canadian Literature? John Buchan in Canada - Silvia Mergenthal
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 - Jutta Ernst
"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) - Claire Omhovère
"Landscape-of-the-Heart": Transgenerational Memory and Relationality in Roy Kiyooka's Mothertalk: Life Stories of Mary Kiyoshi Kiyooka - Katja Sarkowsky
Performing Shame: Theatrical Motifs in the Works of Alice Munro and Alison Bechdel - Marlene Goldman
Timothy Findley's "Stones": Names, Symbols, and Stories - Sherrill Grace
PART III. COMPARATIVE NORTH AMERICAN STUDIES BEYOND PRINT
Comparative North American Opera: Individualism and National Identity - Linda Hutcheon and Michael Hutcheon
"Who Really Lives There?": (Meta-)Tourism and the Canada Pavilion at Epcot - Florian Freitag
Contact Prints: Reading Margaret Atwood's The Door and the MaddAddam Trilogy through the Lens of Photography - Julia Breitbach
Cup-idity, or Poetic Larceny in Transatlantic Contexts: Margaret Atwood's "Stealing the Hummingbird Cup" - Shuli Barzilai
PART IV. CODA: REINGARD NISCHIK AND TRANSATLANTIC CANADIAN CRITICISM
Across the "Ocean of the Page": Nischik and Kroetsch Gaining Ground - Aritha van Herk
Reingard, Queen of the Night - Margaret Atwood
Photo Log: 30 Years of Working in Canadian Criticism in Pictures
