Rudy Wiebe and the Historicity of the Word - read free eBook in online reader or directly download on the web page. Select files or add your book in reader. Download and read online ebook Rudy Wiebe and the Historicity of the Word write by Penelope Van Toorn. This book was released on 1995. Rudy Wiebe and the Historicity of the Word available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. In an entertaining re-examination of Rudy Wiebe's major novels, Penny van Toorn presents a completely new way of reading one of Canada's foremost contemporary writers. She analyzes Wiebe's struggle to control the "socially contested territory" of language, and identifies the principles that underlie his complex narrative structures.
Rudy Wiebe
Rudy Wiebe - read free eBook in online reader or directly download on the web page. Select files or add your book in reader. Download and read online ebook Rudy Wiebe write by Rudy Wiebe. This book was released on 2002. Rudy Wiebe available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle.
The Literary History of Alberta Volume Two
The Literary History of Alberta Volume Two - read free eBook in online reader or directly download on the web page. Select files or add your book in reader. Download and read online ebook The Literary History of Alberta Volume Two write by George Melnyk. This book was released on 1998. The Literary History of Alberta Volume Two available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. In this, the companion to the landmark volume The Literary History of Alberta, Volume One: From Writing-on-Stone to World War Two, George Melnyk examines Alberta literature in the second half of the twentieth century. At last, Melnyk argues, Alberta writers have found their voice--and their accomplishments have been remarkable. The contradictory landscape, the stereotypes of the Indian, the Mountie, and the Cowboy, and the language of the Other, speaking from the margins--these elements all left their impressions on the consciousness of early Alberta. But writers in the last few decades have turned this inheritance to their advantage, to create compelling stories about this place and its people. Today, Melnyk discovers, Alberta writers can appreciate not only this achievement, but also its essential source: the symbolic communication of Writing-on-Stone. The Literary History of Alberta, Volume Two extends the study of Alberta's cultural history to the present day. It is a vital text for anyone interested in Alberta's vibrant literary culture.
Of This Earth
Of This Earth - read free eBook in online reader or directly download on the web page. Select files or add your book in reader. Download and read online ebook Of This Earth write by Rudy Wiebe. This book was released on 2009-06-12. Of This Earth available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. A beautiful, moving memoir of a boy’s coming of age, infused with a deep love of the land, from one of Canada’s most cherished and acclaimed writers. In Of This Earth, Rudy Wiebe gives vivid life again to the vanished world of Speedwell, Saskatchewan, an isolated, poplar-forested, mostly Mennonite community – and Rudy’s first home. Too young to do heavy work, Rudy witnessed a way of life that was soon to disappear. And we experience with him the hard labour of clearing the stony, silty bushland; the digging out of precious wells one bucket of dirt at a time; sorrow at the death of a beloved sister; the disorienting searches for grazing cattle in the vast wilderness sloughs and the sweet discovery of the power of reading. Rare personal photographs (reproduced throughout the book) and the fragile memories of those who are left give shape to the story of Mennonite immigrants building a life in Canada, the growth and decline of the small Speedwell community, the sway of religion, and a young boy’s growing love of the extreme beauty of the aspen forests – as well as how all these elements came to inform his destiny as a writer. A hymn to a lost place and a distant time, Of This Earth follows the best of memoirs in the tradition of Sharon Butala’s The Perfection of the Morning and W. G. Sebald’s Austerlitz. It is an evocation of the Canadian west that only a writer of Rudy Wiebe’s powers could summon.
Speaking in the Past Tense
Speaking in the Past Tense - read free eBook in online reader or directly download on the web page. Select files or add your book in reader. Download and read online ebook Speaking in the Past Tense write by Herb Wyile. This book was released on 2009-10-22. Speaking in the Past Tense available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. “Speaking in the Past Tense participates in an expanding critical dialogue on the writing of historical fiction, providing a series of reflections on the process from the perspective of those souls intrepid enough to step onto what is, practically by definition, contested territory.” — Herb Wyile, from the Introduction The extermination of the Beothuk ... the exploration of the Arctic ... the experiences of soldiers in the trenches during World War I ... the foibles of Canada’s longest-serving prime minister ... the Ojibway sniper who is credited with 378 wartime kills—these are just some of the people and events discussed in these candid and wide-ranging interviews with eleven authors whose novels are based on events in Canadian history. These sometimes startling conversations take the reader behind the scenes of the novels and into the minds of their authors. Through them we explore the writers’ motives for writing, the challenges they faced in gathering information and presenting it in fictional form, the sometimes hostile reaction they faced after publication, and, perhaps most interestingly, the stories that didn’t make it into their novels. Speaking in the Past Tense provides fascinating insights into the construction of national historical narratives and myths, both those familiar to us and those that are still being written.
