The buried astrolabe
Subtitle: Canadian dramatic imagination and Western tradition
By: Craig Stewart Walker.
Publisher: McGill-Queen's University Press
Published: 2002
Place of publication: Montreal; Ithaca
Language: eng
Number of pages: 467
Subjects: Canadian drama -- 20th century -- History and criticism.
Description: "The Buried Astrolabe shows that Canadian plays are increasingly being recognized as some of the most important on the international scene. Craig Walker devotes the main body of his critical introduction to readings of James Reaney, Michael Cook, Sharon Pollock, Michel Tremblay, George F. Walker, and Judith Thompson. His interpretations shed light on poetics, mythological underpinnings, and the cultural significance of characteristic tropes."--Jacket.

"The Buried Astrolabe shows that Canadian plays are increasingly being recognized as some of the most important on the international scene. Craig Walker devotes the main body of his critical introduction to readings of James Reaney, Michael Cook, Sharon Pollock, Michel Tremblay, George F. Walker, and Judith Thompson. His interpretations shed light on poetics, mythological underpinnings, and the cultural significance of characteristic tropes."--BOOK JACKET.
Table of contents: title: Machine generated contents note: 1 James Reaney: Metamorphic Masques 21; title: 2 Michael Cook: Elegy, Allegory, and Eschatology 82; title: 3 Sharon Pollock: Beseiged Memory 135; title: 4 Michel Tremblay: Existential Mythopoeia 20i; title: 5 George F. Walker: Postmodern City Comedy 264; title: 6 Judith Thompson: Social Psychomachia 355.