Gained Ground

Download or read book Gained Ground written by Eva Gruber and published by Camden House (NY). This book was released on 2018 with total page 254 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Mapping North America: comparative North American literature and its contexts / Bettina Mack -- The Scottish invention of Canadian literature: John Buchan in Canada / Silvia Mergenthal -- "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 Omhovere -- "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 -- Comparative North American opera: individualism and national identity / Michael and Linda 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 -- Across the "Ocean of the page": Nischik and Kroetsch gaining ground / Aritha van Herk -- Reingard, Queen of the Night / Margaret Atwood