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The Serpent's Part
David Lucking
其他書名
Narrating the Self in Canadian Literature
出版P. Lang, 2003
主題Foreign Language Study / English as a Second LanguageLanguage Arts & Disciplines / RhetoricLiterary Criticism / GeneralLiterary Criticism / American / GeneralLiterary Criticism / CanadianLiterary Criticism / European / English, Irish, Scottish, WelshLiterary Criticism / Subjects & Themes / General
ISBN30391003949783039100392
URLhttp://books.google.com.hk/books?id=GMPyAAAAMAAJ&hl=&source=gbs_api
註釋Canada is a country in which the issue of identity has always been a prominent concern, and one that has frequently been explored in the literature of that nation. The theme of identity often merges into that of language, the forging of names and the elaboration of narratives being perceived as means through which identity is constructed in both the private and the public spheres. This study examines the relation between identity and language as this is evidenced in a number of works of Canadian literature, ranging from Susanna Moodie's Roughing It in the Bush to Timothy Findley's Famous Last Words. Particular attention is dedicated to the telling of stories in these books, both as an existential strategy on the part of particular authors or the characters they create, and as an explicitly thematized concern. It is argued that while the works under discussion dramatize the paradoxes and the perils inherent in the endeavour to construct the self by narrative means, they also insist on the primacy of narrative in imparting a coherent pattern to experience, and on the centrality of the role it plays in humanity's quest for meaning.