Reflections: Autobiography and Canadian LiteratureK. Peter Stich This volume discusses the autobiographical inclination in Canadian literature, exploring works by such writers as Alice Munro, W.O. Mitchell, Michael Ondaatje, John Glassco, and Susanna Moodie. Others works, including the oral memoirs of a Métis, an Inuit's account as being civil servant in Ottawa, and the autobiographical writings of pioneer women and French missionaries are examined to show the depth and breadth of this tradition in Canada. These texts act as starting points for an in depth look at the relationships between autobiography, biography and fiction in Canadian literature. Published in English. |
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The Geography of Genre in John Glasscos Memoirs of Montparnasse | 15 |
Gabriel Sagards je in the First Histoire du Canada | 27 |
Roughing It in the Bush as Autobiography | 35 |
Preserving the PastRescuing the Self | 45 |
Autobiography and the Problems of Translation | 61 |
La détresse et lenchantement | 69 |
Generic and Other Slippages in Michael Ondaatjes Running in the Family | 79 |
Notes on the Transcriptions of an Oral Memoir | 103 |
The Autobiographies of Frederick Philip Grove and the Baroness Elsa von FreytagLoringhoven | 115 |
The Art of Invisible Authorship | 131 |
Autobiography and W O Mitchells How I Spent My Summer Holidays | 141 |
Autobiography in Alice Munros Stories | 153 |
Alice Munros Story Fits | 163 |
Contributors | 175 |
Autobiography and Aesthetics in Clark Blaise | 93 |
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Page ix - In most books, the /, or first person, is omitted ; in this it will be retained ; that, in respect to egotism, is the main difference. We commonly' do not remember that it is, after all, always the first person that is speaking. I should not talk so much about myself if there were anybody else whom I knew as well.