Refractions of Canada in European literature and culture
By: edited by Heinz Antor ... [et al].
Contributors: Antor, Heinz, 1959-
Publisher: Walter de Gruyter Berlin
Published: 2005
Place of publication: New York
Language: eng
Number of pages: 301
Subjects: European literature -- History and criticism; Canada -- Description and travel -- History; Canada -- In literature
Table of contents: title: The archeology of a novel: an afterword to The Blue Mountains of China / Rudy Wiebe; title: "A new Athens rising near the Pole"?: the Canadian experience in Frances Brooke's The history of Emily Montague (1769) / Gordon Bölling; title: Anna Brownell Jameson's Winter studies and summer rambles in Canada (1838): a European woman's view of the New World / Heinz Antor; title: "Capable of great improvement": Catherine Parr Traill's images of Canada in The young emigrants (1826) / Klaus Stierstorfer; title: Deserts and visions of paradise: the representation of the Canadian landscape in advertisements and guides for Canadian immigrants / Markus Wust; title: Destination and destiny: contemporary Canadian plays on immigrants / Albert-Reiner Glaap; title: The representation of Canada in novels by Frederick Marryat and Robert Michael Ballantyne / Melanie Just; title: Victorians abroad: Charles Dickens and Anthony Trollope in Canada / Micharel Heinze; title: "Alle diese Länder sind unbekannt": Canada in late eighteenth and early nineteenth-century German travel literature? / Ingmar Probst; title: "A Canadian literature?": Elizabeth Smart and the failures of nationalism / Robert McGill; title: In search of Cathaia; title: voyages into the unexpected / Elke Nowak; title: Re-enacting the Arctic voyage: the Northwest Passage in British literature / Annette Kern-Stähler; title: Stuffed mooseheads: Canada as (missing) cliché in European theatre / Christopher Innes; title: Cultural reductionism and the reception of Canadian literature in Germany / James Skidmore; title: Wildlife abounds? The photographic deconstruction of a Canadian cliché in Robert Gernhardt's satire "Blanket Creek oder Verwilderte Wünsche" / Susanne Peters; title: "One sees only what one knows": German popular literature and its images of Canada / Laurenz Volkmann; title: Canada as a role model? Reflections of a country in post-war German youth fiction / Miriam Richter; title: What makes a Canadian? Strategies of presenting Canadianness in teaching materials / Matthias Merkl."