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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.
    print
  • 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: Canada, Northern, in literature
Wilderness areas in literature
Nature in literature
Canadian literature -- History and criticism
Myth in literature
Gothic revival (Literature) -- Canada
National characteristics, Canadian, in literature
Horror tales, Canadian -- History and criticism
Evil in literature
Topic Heading: Canada, Northern, in literature.
Canadian literature - Themes, motives.

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  • 6 of 7 copies available at BC Interlibrary Connect. (Show)
  • 1 of 1 copy available at Nakusp Public Library.

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