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Survival : a thematic guide to Canadian literature /
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| Format: | Printed Book |
| Language: | English |
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Toronto :
M & S,
2004, c1972.
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Table of Contents:
- Introduction / Margaret Atwood
- What, why, and where is here?
- How to use this book
- Survival
- Nature the monster
- Animal victims
- First people: Indians and Eskimos as symbols
- Ancestral totems: explorers, settlers
- Family portrait: masks of the bear
- Failed sacrifices: the reluctant immigrant
- The casual incident of death: futile heroes, unconvincing martyrs and other bad ends
- The paralyzed artist
- Ice women vs earth mothers: the stone angel and the absent Venus
- Quebec: burning mansions
- Jail-breaks and re-creations
- Sources of epigraphs
- Authors' index.