The essay compares the coeval books of Carol Shields (The Stone Diaries) , Jane Urquhart (Away) and Nancy Huston (Plainsong), gathers a group of similarities and builds on them the hypothesis of the birth of the new literary subgenre of the Canadian female family saga.
The Beginnings of a New Canadian ‘Genre’: The Family Saga Written by Women / P. Loreto - In: Europe Looks at Canada: 16 Essays by Young Scholars Presented at the European Graduate Students´ Seminar in Canadian Studies at Lund University, 19 - 22 September 1996 / [a cura di] P. Rygh, P. Streijffert. - first. - Lund, Sweden : The Nordic Association for Canadian Studies, 1999. - pp. 103-116 (( convegno European Graduate Students´ Seminar in Canadian Studies tenutosi a Lund nel 1996.
The Beginnings of a New Canadian ‘Genre’: The Family Saga Written by Women
P. LoretoPrimo
1999
Abstract
The essay compares the coeval books of Carol Shields (The Stone Diaries) , Jane Urquhart (Away) and Nancy Huston (Plainsong), gathers a group of similarities and builds on them the hypothesis of the birth of the new literary subgenre of the Canadian female family saga.Pubblicazioni consigliate
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