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New, W.H.

Messenger, W.E.

Prentice-Hall Canada

Canadian Short Fiction from Myth to Modern

Prentice-Hall of Canada, Ltd.

A History of Canadian Literature

Literature & Fiction

History & Criticism

McGill Queens Univ Pr

A history of Canadian literature, looking at the work of individual writers and also at the social and cultural contexts that helped shape their preoccupations and direct their choice of literary form. W.H. New explains how - from early records of oral tales to the writing strategies of the 1980s - writer, reader, literature and society are interrelated. New discusses both Aboriginal and European mythologies, looking at pre-Contact narratives and also at the way Contact experience altered hierarchies of literary value. He then considers representations of the real, whether in documentary, fantasy or satire; the precedence of historical romance and the social construction of Nature and State; and ironic subversions of power, the politics of cultural form, and the relevance of the media to a representation of community standard and individual voice. New suggests some ways in which writers of the later 20th century codified such issues as history, gender, ethnicity and literary technique itself.

McGill-Queen's University Press

Tropes and Territories demonstrates how current debates in postcolonial criticism bear on the reading, writing, and status of short fiction. These debates, which hinge on competing definitions of "trope" (motif vs rhetorical turn) and "territory" (political or aesthetic), lead to studies of space, place, influence, and writing and reading practices across cultural divides. The essays also explore the character of diasporic writing, the cultural significance of oral tale-telling, and interconnections between socio/political issues and strategies of style.

Tropes and Territories: Short Fiction, Postcolonial Readings, Canadian Writings in Context

Dvořák, Marta

Borderlands: How We Talk About Canada

The border between Canada and the United States not only seperates us geographically and politically, but also is an important symbol for defining Canadian nationality. In Borderlands, New poetically and metaphorically considers the image of 'the border' in Canada and how it affects the way Canadians look at themselves and their society.

Politics & Social Sciences

Sociology

Univ of British Columbia Pr

This book traces some of the ways in which border metaphors pervade Canadian consciousness. Addressing a variety of social issues -- among them, separatism, marginalization, multiculturalism, colonial attitudes, national policies, language, and the influence of the United States. W.H. New shows how the border, though spatial in character, is political in intent and effect.

Borderlands: How We Talk About Canada (Brenda and David McLean Canadian Studies)

UBC Press

Investigates the established paradigm of using land-based metaphors to describe the character of Canada and examines why so many writers have accepted the land as a comprehensive image of nationhood. Looks at what land as an abstract concept and as a physical site has to do with writing, representation, and power, exploring the way in which a culture produces values by transforming the natural into literary idiom. Draws on texts including First Nation narratives, contemporary poetry and fiction, government documents, and real estate ads, as well as b&w photos and artwork. Annotation c. by Book News, Inc., Portland, Or.

Land Sliding: Imagining Space, Presence, and Power in Canadian Writing

Univ of Toronto Pr

Why have so many of this century's prominent political and literary critics wanted to find a single metaphor to describe the character of Canada? Why do so many use land-based metaphors to ask about the divisions between centres and margins, colony and empire, wealth and power? W.H. New, in Land Sliding: Imagining Space, Presence, and Power in Canadian Writing, investigates this established paradigm by examining why so many writers have accepted the land as a comprehensive image of nationhood. Is there in fact, he questions, a landscape which is 'natural,' unmediated by social values and literary representation?
Asking what 'land' as an abstract concept and a physical site has to do with writing, representation, and power, New looks at the 'sliding' relationship by which people associate their surroundings with their position in society. New's study of land in literature is a commentary on the way a culture produces values by transforming the 'natural' into literary idiom and, in turn, making literary convention seem natural. Land Sliding develops not as a history of uniformity or progress, but as a series of dialogues between past and present, between paradigms and disciplines. It draws on a wide range of texts including First Nations narratives, contemporary poetry and fiction, government documents, real estate ads, artwork, and photographs to illustrate the complex associations that link place, power, and language in Canada today.
W.H. New invites readers to look again at Canada's changing cultural character by rereading both the landscape and the people who have interpreted it. Land Sliding will have an important place in many disciplines, among them literary studies, geography, fine arts, and Canadian studies.

University of Toronto Press

W.H. New's Poems, variations on the sonnet form, explore growing up in British Columbia, from the coast to the Kootenays, Through the Metaphysics of science. In this his first book of poems, New contemplates a world in which chaos and order, growth and tradition, imagination and empiricism, placement and displacement coexist. He writes about his native landscape in poems that are at once meticulous and a challenge to aesthetic boundaries. Science Lessons  traces tensions in a young boy who struggles to reconcile his individual freedom with the demands of a community that insists upon obedience. Science Lessons confirms the wonder and awe we all feel for our place in the natural world; our awakening into the self and the universe.

Science Lessons

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Active Voice

Canadian Short Fiction from Myth to Modern

A History of Canadian Literature

A History of Canadian Literature

Tropes and Territories: Short Fiction, Postcolonial Readings, Canadian Writings in Context

Borderlands: How We Talk About Canada

Borderlands: How We Talk About Canada (Brenda and David McLean Canadian Studies)

Land Sliding: Imagining Space, Presence, and Power in Canadian Writing

Land Sliding: Imagining Space, Presence, and Power in Canadian Writing

Science Lessons