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Strange things

Paperback • 2004 • English • 1. edition

Strange things: the malevolent North in Canadian literature

By Margaret Atwood

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About the book

The author focuses on the imaginative mystique of the wilderness of the Canadian North. She discusses the 'Grey Owl Syndrome' of white writers going native; the folklore arising from the mysterious - and disastrous - Franklin expedition of the nineteenth century; the myth of the dreaded snow monster, the Wendigo; the relations between nature writing and new forms of Gothic; and how a fresh generation of women writers in Canada have adapted the imagery of the Canadian North for the exploration of...Show more

Biography, Literature and Literary studies

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ISBN

9781844080823

Publisher

Virago

Published year

2004

Language

English

Edition

1

Original title

Strange things

Format

Paperback

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