Title: The island motif in the fiction of L.M. Montgomery, Margaret Laurence, Margaret Atwood, and other Canadian women novelists
First published: 2003
Description: "Islands, both literal and figurative, recur in fiction authored by many prominent Canadian women writers. Using a critical lens based on Northrop Frye and Julia Kristeva, this book closely examines fourteen novels by eight twentieth-century authors, emphasizing works by L.M. Montgomery, Margaret Laurence, and Margaret Atwood. Several of the novels, such as Montgomery's Anne of Green Gables, Laurence's A Jest of God and The Diviners, Atwood's Surfacing and Bodily Harm, Alice Munro's The Lives of Girls and Women, and Gabrielle Roy's The Tin Flute, are among Canada's most well-known. Some of the works discussed present the island as a redemptive retreat, but in most cases the island's role is ambiguous, ranging from a temporary respite from life's pressures to a nightmarish trap."--Jacket.
Subjects: Settings, Women authors, Canadian fiction, Women and literature, History and criticism, Islands in literature, History, Canadian fiction, history and criticism, Women in literature
Places: Canada
People: L. M. Montgomery (1874-1942), Margaret Eleanor Atwood (1939-), Margaret Laurence
Time periods: 20th century
LC classification: PR9192.6.I75 S54 2003