This volume discusses the autobiographical inclination in Canadian literature, exploring works by such writers as Alice Munro, W.O. Mitchell, Michael Ondaatje, John Glassco, and Susanna Moodie. Others works, including the oral memoirs of a Métis, an Inuit’s account as being civil servant in Ottawa, and the autobiographical writings of pioneer women and French missionaries are examined to show the depth and breadth of this tradition in Canada. These texts act as starting points for an indepth look at the relationships between autobiography, biography and fiction in Canadian literature.
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- Includes bibliographies
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- CaOOCEL
- Dewey Decimal Classification Number
- C810/.9/005
- Dewey Decimal Edition Number
- 19
- General Note
- The essays in this collection originated in the Autobiography and Canadian Literature Symposium sponsored by the Department of English at the University of Ottawa in April 1987"--P. vii Issued as part of the desLibris books collection
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- n-cn---
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- 9780776616834 0776601954
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- PR9189.6
- LCCN Item number
- R443 1988eb
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- CaOONL
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- 1 electronic text (xii, 176 p.)
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- CaOOCEL
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- (CaBNVSL)slc00200102 (OCoLC)181843562 (CaOOCEL)403757
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Table of Contents
- Contents 6
- Acknowledgements 8
- Introduction 10
- Notes Towards a Sometime and Probable History of John Glassco 14
- The Geography of Genre in John Glassco's Memoirs of Montparnasse 28
- Gabriel Sagard's "je" in the First Histoire du Canada 40
- Roughing It in the Bush as Autobiography 48
- Pioneer Women's Memoirs: Preserving the Past/Rescuing the Self 58
- North and South: Autobiography and the Problems of Translation 74
- "Metaphors of Self": La détresse et l'enchantement 82
- The Alphabet of the Self: Generic and Other Slippages in Michael Ondaatje's Running in the Family 92
- An Other I: Autobiography and Aesthetics in Clark Blaise 106
- Voices of Louis Goulet: Notes on the Transcriptions of an Oral Memoir 116
- The Self, Its Discourse, and the Other: The Autobiographies of Frederick Philip Grove and the Baroness Elsa von Freytag-Loringhoven 128
- Biography as Fiction: The Art of Invisible Authorship 144
- Invading Caves: Autobiography and W. O. Mitchell's: How I Spent My Summer Holidays 154
- "So Shocking a Verdict in Real Life": Autobiography in Alice Munro's Stories 166
- Autobiography and Creativity: Alice Munro's Story "Fits" 176
- Contributors 188
