Greening the Maple: Canadian Ecocriticism in Context
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ISBN-13: | 9781552385463 |
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Publisher: | University of Calgary Press |
Publication date: | 11/05/2013 |
Series: | Energy, Ecology and the Environment , #7 |
Edition description: | 1 |
Pages: | 624 |
Product dimensions: | 6.00(w) x 9.00(h) x 1.60(d) |
About the Author
Nicholas Bradley is an Assistant Professor in the Department of English at the University of Victoria.
Table of Contents
AcknowledgementsIntroduction: Ecocriticism North of the Forty–ninth Parallel
Ella Spoer and Nicholas Bradley
Section 1: Nature and Nation: Before and Beyond Thematic Criticism
Chapter 1: Selections from The Busch Garden: Essays on the Canadian Imagination (1971)
Northrop Frye
Chapter 2: Selections from Survival: A Thematic Guide to Canadian Literature (1972)
Margaret Atwood
Chapter 3: La Forêt or the Winlderness as Myth (1987)
Rosemary Sullivan
Chapter 4: Quest for the Peaceable Knowledge: Urban/Rural Codes in Roy, Laurence, and Atwood (1984)
Sherrill E. Grace
Chapter 5: Women in the Wilderness (1986)
Heather Murray
Section 2: The Emergence of Ecocriticism in Canada
Chapter 6: "Along the Line of Smoky Hills": Further Steps towards an Ecological Poetics (1990)
D.M.R. Bentley
Chapter 7: So Big about Green (1991)
Laurie Ricou
Chapter 8: So Unwise about Green (1996)
Laurie Ricou
Chapter 9: Eruptions of Postmodernity: The Postcolonial and the Ecological (1993)
Linda Hutcheon
Chapter 10: Contemporary Canadian Poetry from the Edge: An Exploration of Literary Ecocriticism (1995)
Gabriele Helms
Chapter 11: Nature’s Nation, National Natures? Reading Ecocriticism in a Canadian Context (1998)
Susie O’Brien
Section 3: Reading Canadian Landscapes
Chapter 12: Nature Trafficking: Writing and Environment in the Western Canada–U.S. Borderlands
Jenny Kerber
Chapter 13: Calypso Trails: Botanizing on the Bruce Peninsula (2010)
Catriona Sandilands
Chapter 14: Knowledge, Power, and Place: Environmental Politics in the Fiction of Matt Cohen and David Adams Richards
Cheryl Lousley
Section 4: Environments and Cross–Cultural Encounters
Chapter 15: Canadian Art according to Emily Carr: The Search for Indigenous Expression (2005)
Linda Morra
Chapter 16: "Mon pays, ce n’est pas un pays, c’est l’hiver": Literary Representations of Nature and Ecocritical Thought in Quebec
Stephanie Posthumus and Élise Salaün
Chapter 17: Decolonization: Reading Asian and First Nations Relations in Literature (2008)
Rita Wong
Section 5: Neighbours Unknown: Animals in Canadian Literature
Chapter 18: Selections from Survival: A Thematic Guide to Canadian Literature (1972)
Margaret Atwood
Chapter 19: Political Science: Realism in Robert’s Animal Stories (1996)
Misano Dean
Chapter 20: The "I" in Beaver: Sympathetic Identification in the Self–Representation in Grey Owl’s Pilgrims of the Wild (2007)
Carrie Dawson
Chapter 21: The Ontology and Epistemology of Walking: Animality in Karsten Huer’s Being Caribou: Five Months on Foot with an Arctic Herd
Pamela Banting
Section 6: In Full Bloom: New Directions in Canadian Theory
Chapter 22: Poetics of the Semiosphere: Pataphysics, Biosemiotics, and Imaginary Solutions for Water (2011)Adam Dickinson
Chapter 23: Literature and Geology: An Experiment in Interdisciplinary Comparative Ecocriticism
Travis V. Mason
Chapter 24: The Dwelling Perspective in English–Canadian Drama
Nelson Gray
Afterword: Ecocritical Futures
Ella Soper and Nicholas Bradley
Appendix: Taking Frlight: From Little Grey Birds to The Goose
Liza Sazbo–Jones
Notes
Index