Robertson Davies
Subtitle: a mingling of contrarities
By: edited by Camille R. La Bossière and Linda M. Morra.
Contributors: La Bossière, Camille R.; Morra, Linda M.
Series: Re-appraisals, Canadian writers
Publisher: University of Ottawa Press
Published: 2001
Place of publication: Ottawa
Language: eng
Number of pages: 178
Subjects: Davies, Robertson, -- 1913-1995 -- Criticism and interpretation
Notes: Includes bibliographical references.
Table of contents: title: Introduction:; title: Davies Tristram-gistus -- Camille R. La Bossière -- The; title: concert of his life: perspectives on the masks of Robertson Davies -- Michael Peterman -- "A; title: hint of the basic brimstone": the humour of Robertson Davies -- Faith Balisch; title: Undermining comedy: shadows of determinism in the Salterton novels -- David Creelman; title: Magic in the web: Robertson Davies and Shamanstvo -- Todd Pettigrew -- The; title: leaven of wine and spirits in the fiction of Robertson Davies -- K.P. Stich; title: Metadrama and melodrama: postmodern elements in the plays of Robertson Davies -- Lois Sherlow; title: "Where there's a will, there are always two ways": doubling in World of wonders -- Mark Silverberg; title: Authentic forgeries: hermeneutics, artifice, and authenticity in Robertson Davies' What's bred in the bone -- David Hallett -- The; title: myth and magic of a textual truth and/or a metaphorical reading of The Deptford trilogy -- Tatjana Takseva Chorney; title: "Converting the clerisy": quest/ioning, contradictions, and ethics in The Cornish triptych -- Andrea C. Cole; title: "Medical consultation" for Murther and walking spirits and The cunning man-- Rick Davis and Peter Brigg.