The Island Motif in the Fiction of L.M. Montgomery, Margaret Laurence, Margaret Atwood, and Other Canadian Women NovelistsThe Island Motif in the Fiction of L.M. Montgomery, Margaret Laurence, Margaret Atwood, and Other Canadian Women Novelists
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Current format, eBook, 2003, , Available. Offered in 0 more formatsIslands, both literal and figurative, recur in fiction authored by many prominent Canadian women writers. Using a critical lens based on Northrop Frye and Julia Kristeva, this book closely examines fourteen novels by eight twentieth-century authors, emphasizing works by L. M. Montgomery, Margaret Laurence, and Margaret Atwood. Several of the novels, such as Montgomery's Anne of Green Gables, Laurence's A Jest of God and The Diviners, Atwood's Surfacing and Bodily Harm, Alice Munro's The Lives of Girls and Women, and Gabrielle Roy's The Tin Flute, are among Canada's most well-known. Some of the works discussed present the island as a redemptive retreat, but in most cases the island's role is ambiguous, ranging from a temporary respite from life's pressures to a nightmarish trap.
Sheckels (English and communications, Randolph-Macon College) noticed how often the female protagonists of these writers went off to an island or were already there, and had positive or negative experiences. He explores the island motif in 20th- century novels by Canadian women from the perspectives of redemptive retreats, holding patterns, small-town traps, and fantasy traps. A whole chapter is devoted to Atwood's Surfacing . Annotation (c) Book News, Inc., Portland, OR (booknews.com)
Sheckels (English and communications, Randolph-Macon College) noticed how often the female protagonists of these writers went off to an island or were already there, and had positive or negative experiences. He explores the island motif in 20th- century novels by Canadian women from the perspectives of redemptive retreats, holding patterns, small-town traps, and fantasy traps. A whole chapter is devoted to Atwood's Surfacing . Annotation (c) Book News, Inc., Portland, OR (booknews.com)
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