Other selves : animals in the Canadian literary imagination /

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Imprint:Ottawa : University of Ottawa Press, 2007.
Description:1 online resource (363 pages) : illustrations (some color), portraits (some color).
Language:English
Series:Reapraisals : Canadian writers, 1189-6787
Re-appraisals, Canadian writers ; 31.
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Format: E-Resource Book
URL for this record:http://pi.lib.uchicago.edu/1001/cat/bib/11675461
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Other authors / contributors:Fiamengo, Janice Anne, 1964-
ISBN:9780776617701
0776617702
9780776618500
0776618504
9780776606453
077660645X
Notes:Includes bibliographical references and index.
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Summary:Other Selves: Animals in the Canadian Literary Imagination begins with the premise, first suggested by Margaret Atwood in The Animals in That Country (1968), that animals have occupied a peculiarly central position in the Canadian imagination. Unlike the longer-settled countries of Europe or the more densely-populated United States, in Canada animals have always been the loved and feared co-inhabitants of this harsh, beautiful land. From the realistic animal tales of Charles G.D. Roberts and Ernest Thompson Seton, to the urban animals of Marshall Saunders and Dennis Lee, to the lyrical observ.
Other form:Print version: Other selves. Ottawa : University of Ottawa Press, 2007