Other selves
Subtitle: animals in the Canadian literary imagination
By: edited by Janice Fiamengo.
Contributors: Fiamengo, Janice Anne, 1964-
Series: Reapraisals : Canadian writers; Re-appraisals, Canadian writers -- 31.
Publisher: University of Ottawa Press
Published: 2007
Place of publication: Ottawa
Language: eng
Number of pages: 363
ISBN-13: 9780776606453
Subjects: Canadian literature (English) -- History and criticism.; Animals in literature.; Human-animal relationships in literature.; Littérature canadienne-anglaise -- Histoire et critique.; Animaux dans la littérature.; Relations homme-animal dans la littérature.
Notes: Includes bibliographical references and index.
Table of contents: title: The Animals in This Country": Animals in the Canadian Literary Imagination / Janice Fiamengo; title: Pt. I. Reading Strategies for Animal Writing; title: (B)othering the Theory: Approaching the Unapproachable in Bear and other Realistic Animal Narratives / Gwendolyn Guth; title: "Ontological Applause": Metaphor and Homology in the Poetry of Don McKay / Susan Fisher; title: "Drawn from Nature": Katherine Govier's Audubon and the Trauma of Extinction / Cynthia Sugars; title: Lick me, Bite me, Hear me, Write me: Tracking Animals between Postcolonialism and Ecocriticism / Travis V. Mason; title: Yann Martel's Life of Pi: Back in the World, or "The Story with Animals in the Better Story" / Jack Robinson; title: Pt. II. Animal Writers; title: "So That Nothing May be Lost": Thomas McIlwraith's Birds of Ontario / Christoph Irmscher; title: Marshall Saunders and the Urbanization of the Animal / Gwendolyn Davies; title: Charles G. D. Robert's cosmic Animals: Aspects of "Mythticism" in Earth's Enigmas / Thomas Hodd; title: St. Archie of the Wild: Grey Owl's Account of his "Natural" Conversion / Albert Braz; title: "At War with Nature": Animals in Timothy Findley's The Wars / Peter Webb; title: Fear, Friendship, and Delight: The appeal of Animals in the Children's Poetry of Dennis Lee / Greg Maillet; title: Pt. III. The Politics of Animal Representation; title: When Elephants Weep: Reading The White Bone as a Sentimental Animal Story / Ella Soper-Jones; title: "The Mania for Killing": Hunting and Collecting in Seton's The Arctic Prairies / Misao Dean; title: The Politics of Hunting in Canadian women's Narratives of Travel / Wendy Roy; title: National Species: Ecology, Allegory, and Indigeneity in the Wolf Stories of Roberts, Seton, and Mowat / Brian Johnson.