Not needing all the words: Michael Ondaatje's literature of silence
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Main Author: Hillger, Annick (Author)
Format: Electronic eBook
Language:English
Published: Montreal [Que.] McGill-Queen's University Press c2006
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Item Description:Master and use copy. Digital master created according to Benchmark for Faithful Digital Reproductions of Monographs and Serials, Version 1. Digital Library Federation, December 2002
Includes bibliographical references (p. [249]-262) and index
Introduction: Reading "Birch Bark" -- how to mourn the loss of the logos -- - pt. I. An aesthetics of silence - 1. Orpheus is dismembered - 2. Writing disaster: "Stars Who Implode into Silence" - 3. "Moving to the Clear": a poetics of process - 4. The Dionysian principle of becoming
"This is the first study of the quest for self and Canadian identity in the fiction and poetry of Michael Ondaatje. Reading selected texts by Ondaatje, including the novels In the Skin of a Lion and The English Patient and the poem "Birch Bark," Annick Hillger demonstrates how Ondaatje's writing both answers and challenges attempts to delineate the idea of a Canadian national self. She sets his work within the context of theoretical and philosophical ideas, developing the notion of a "literature of silence" that is concerned with finding a ground for self beyond the realm of language."--Jacket
Physical Description:1 Online-Ressource (x, 267 p.)
ISBN:0773560068
9780773560062

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