Details

Title

Message in a Bottle

Subtitle

the literature of small islands : proceedings from an international conference, Charlottetown, P.E., Canada, June 28 to 30, 1998

Statement of Responsibility

edited by Laurie Brinklow, Frank Ledwell and Jane Ledwell.

Author

Ledwell, Frank J.
Brinklow, Laurie.
Ledwell, Jane
MacLaine, Brent.
Robertson, Ian Ross
Ceraldi, Gabrielle
Waterston, Elizabeth

Physical Description

284 p. ; 23 cm.

Place of Publication

Charlottetown, P.E.I

Country

Canada

Publisher

Institute of Island Studies

Date of Publication

2000 Show more2000-01-01T00:00:00.000Z
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Collection

Island Studies Program Collection. Brent MacLaine is a Professor and 3M Teaching Fellow at the University of Prince Edward Island.
L.M. Montgomery Institute. Ryrie-Campbell Collection.

Donor

Ryrie-Campbell copy donated by Donna Jane Campbell.

Note

Includes chapters relating to Sir Andrew Macphail and to L.M. Montgomery.

Contents

Imagination -- Settler Calibans in John Murrell's New World / Mark Houlahan -- Crooked Signs and Shining Things: The Magic Books in the Literature of Atlantic Canadian Islands / Brent MacLaine -- Literary Cartographies in Oceania / Juniper Ellis -- Exploration -- Eddas and Sagas on an Island: Memories of an Age of Exploration Boiled in a Cultural Melting Pot / Gisli Sigurosson -- "A Second Creation": In Search of the Island of the Colorblind / Patricia Gabilondo -- "An oblivion that knows its limits": James Merrill on Santorini / Margaret Soltan -- Emigration -- "I'm Saddest when I sing": Songs of 19th-Century Emigration in the Isle of Man / Fenella Bazin -- Worlds Apart: Language and Character in The Playboy of the Western World and Au coeur de la rose / Glen Nichols -- "The meaning of a' island": Paradoxical Space in Writing by Authors from the Caribbean / Patricia Srebrnik -- The Land and the Language: Derek Walcott and St. Lucia / Robin Hanford -- Home -- Sir Andrew Macphail and Prince Edward Island as a Way of Life: A Canadian Critic of Industrialization / Ian Ross Robertson -- Writing and Rewriting the Island: Tasmania, Politics, and Contemporary Australian Fiction / Fiona Polack -- Dialect and Island Identity in Three Contemporary Hawai'i Writers / Anne Reevesman -- L. M. Montgomery's Emily Series and the Aftermath of the Great War / Gabrielle Ceraldi -- The Iconography of Islands: Margaret Atwood and L. M. Montgomery / Elizabeth Waterson.

Topic

Islands, literatures
Islands in literature
States, Small--literatures
Prince Edward Island, literatures

Genre

Bibliography
Reference

Call Number(s)

PN56.I7M47 2000
494 REF-Brinklow-Ledwell

Bibliographic Information

Includes bibliographical references and index.