Selected Essays in English Literatures: British and CanadianAuthor :
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Published : Friday 3 May 2002
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This collection of essays begins with a reassessment of Swifts Gullivers Travels, in particular addressing the universal formative impact it keeps exerting on the `myth of utopia (N. Frye) and the ramifications it displays in contemporary exemplars of utopian/dystopian fiction - The Handmaids Tale, Canadian author Margaret Atwoods world success, being a most significant case in point. John Fowles, within an overview of his works, is dealt with to point out the quest-/quester-motif as an informing element, which itself forms part of the `myth of the picaresque as the encompassing literary genre. This line of argument is continued in the Margaret Laurence chapters with a view to bring to the surface `hidden subtextual relics of the picaresque now fully integrated in the Canadian vistas of her narrative texture. The Di Brandt & Dennis Cooley interview presents two representatives of Canadian Prairie literature: Di Brandt a persuasive example of (ex-)Mennonite ethno-culture and the literary creativity emanating from it since the 1980s; and Dennis Cooley, the accomplished author/critic and publisher encouraging promising talents.
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