Double-Takes

Intersections Between Canadian Literature and Film
Herausgeber: Jarraway, David R

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Produktbeschreibung

The widest-ranging exploration to date of the interaction between English Canadian literature and film.

Produktdetails

• Verlag: Les Presses de l'Universite d'Ottawa/University of Ottawa Press
• Seitenzahl: 366
• Erscheinungstermin: 25. Mai 2013
• Englisch
• Abmessung: 226mm x 152mm x 23mm
• Gewicht: 590g
• ISBN-13: 9780776607795
• ISBN-10: 0776607790
• Artikelnr.: 36529242

Autorenporträt

David Jarraway is professor of American Literature and Culture at the University of Ottawa, and is the author of Wallace Stevens and the Question of Belief: "Metaphysician in the Dark" (1993) and Going the Distance: Dissident Subjectivity in Modernist American Literature (2003), both in the "Horizons in Theory and American Culture" Series at Louisiana State University Press.

Inhaltsangabe

INTRODUCTION: David Jarraway
PART ONE: REALISM AND ITS "OTHERS"
Chapter 1: Beyond the National-Realist Text: Imagining the Impossible
Nation in Contemporary Canadian Cinema by Jim Leach
Chapter 2: Griersonian "Actuality" and Social Protest in Dorothy Livesay's
Documentary Poems by Tania Aguila-Way
Chapter 3: "Stunning and Strange": Iceland as Memory and Prophecy in Alice
Munro's "White Dump" and Sarah Polley's "Away from Her'" by Nadine Fladd
Chapter 4: Maddin, Melodrama, and the Pre-National by Jennifer Henderson
and Brian Johnson
Chapter 5: Dialogic Phantasy in Bruce McDonald's Adaptive Narratives by
Gregory Betts
PART TWO: ADAPTATION, FOR BETTER OR WORSE
Chapter 6: Reading Canadian Film Credits: Adapting Institutions, Systems,
and Affects by Peter Dickinson
Chapter 7: Sisters in the Wilderness: Mythologizing Catharine Parr Traill
by Ruth Bradley-St-Cyr
Chapter 8: "'Triumph" in the Backwoods: The CBC's Take on Moodie and Traill
in Sisters in the Wilderness (2000) by Christa Zeller Thomas
Chapter 9: The Director's Medium: Richard Attenborough's De-Authorization
of Grey Owl by Albert Braz
Chapter 10: Narrative Structure and Narrative Voices in The English Patient
: Film And Novel--A Comparative Study by Christine Evain
Chapter 11: Loser Wins: The Rhetoric of High Modernism in The
Apprenticeship of Duddy Kravitz by Bradley D. Clissold
Chapter 12: Why They Cannot Get It Right: A Reader's Notes about Richler on
Screen by Natalia Vesselova
Chapter 13: "'[I]t's my nature": A Comparison of Hagar Shipley's Pride in
The Stone Angel Novel and Film by Carmela Coccimiglio
PART THREE: IDENTITY: "TO BE, OR NOT TO BE"
Chapter 14: Why Sex Matters in Canadian Film and Literature by Katherine
Monk
Chapter 15: The Nature of Things: Coupland, Cinema and the Canadian Sixties
and Seventies by Andrew Burke
Chapter 16: Adapting Men to New Times?: Engagements with Maculinism in John
Howe's Why Rock the Boat? by Elspeth Tulloch
Chapter 17: Filming Music: Adapting Transnational Sound in The English
Patient and Fugitive Pieces by Katherine McLeod
Chapter 18: "'Something's missing": Exploding Girlhood in The Tracy
Fragments by Tanis MacDonald