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Title

The Island Motif in the Fiction of L.M. Montgomery, Margaret Laurence, Margaret Atwood, and other Canadian Women Novelists

Statement of Responsibility

Theodore F. Sheckels.

Author

Sheckels, Theodore F.

Physical Description

xvi, 206 p. ; 24 cm.

Place of Publication

New York

Country

United States

Publisher

P. Lang

Date of Publication

2003 Show more2003-01-01T00:00:00.000Z
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Collection

L.M. Montgomery Institute. Ryrie-Campbell Collection.

Donor

Donated by Donna Jane Campbell.

Contents

1. Introduction -- 2. Redemptive Retreats: L. M. Montgomery's "Anne Books"; L. M. Montgomery's Jane of Lantern Hill; Marian Engel's Bear -- 3. Holding Patterns: Margaret Laurence's The Diviners; Audrey Thomas's Intertidal Life -- 4. Most Puzzling Island of All: Margaret Atwood's Surfacing -- 5. Small-Town Traps: Margaret Laurence's A Jest of God; Alice Munro's Lives of Girls and Women -- 6. Trapped in Fantasy: L. M. Montgomery's "Pat Books"; L. M. Montgomery's Magic for Marigold -- 7. Dangerous Idylls: Gabrielle Roy's The Tin Flute; Margaret Atwood's Bodily Harm; Marie-Claire Blais's These Festive Nights -- 8. Once More to the Island.

Topic

Settings
Canadian fiction
Women authors
History and criticism
Islands in literature
Women and literature
History

Genre

Bibliography
Reference

Call Number(s)

474 REF-Sheckels

Bibliographic Information

Includes bibliographical references (p. [191]-202) and index.

Series

Studies on themes and motifs in literature v. 68