Refractions of Canada in European Literature and Culture

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Published by De Gruyter 2005

Refractions of Canada in European Literature and Culture

Edited by: Heinz Antor , Gordon Bölling , Annette Kern-Stähler and Klaus Stierstorfer

https://doi.org/10.1515/9783110919240

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Ever since the first exploratory expeditions in the early modern period, North America has epitomized to Europeans a promise and the hope for the fulfilment of great expectations, be it of more freedom, greater wealth, social liberation or religious tolerance. While numerous features in this dialogic intercontinental relationship will hold true for North America in its entirety, the vast northern territories which we know as Canada today began to emerge early on as a specific iconic location in European mind-maps, and they definitely acquired a distinctive profile after the formation of the USA. As a rich source of cultural exchange and an important partner in political and economic cooperation Canada has come to occupy an important position in the cultural discourses of many European nations. It is these refractions and images of Canada which this volume thoroughly explores in European literature and culture. The contributions include literature, philosophy, language, life-writing and the concept of 'Heimat' (homeland) as well as the cultural impact of the World Wars. While there is an emphasis on literary texts, other fields of cultural representation are also included.

Author / Editor information

Heinz Antor holds a chair at the English Department of the University of Cologne, Germany.

Gordon Bölling teaches at the English Department of the University of Cologne, Germany.

Annette Kern-Stähler is Assistant Professor at the English Department at the Westfälische Wilhelms-Universität Münster, Germany.

Klaus Stierstorfer is Professor for English Literature at the Westfälische Wilhelms-Universität Münster, Germany.

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Introduction: Canada from European Perspectives KLAUS STIERSTORFER Requires Authentication Unlicensed Licensed Download PDF	1
The Archeology of a Novel: An Afterword to The Blue Mountains of China RUDY WIEBE Requires Authentication Unlicensed Licensed Download PDF	9
In Between: Canada in the View of European Pioneers and Emigrants
“A New Athens Rising Near the Pole”?: The Canadian Experience in Frances Brooke’s The History of Emily Montague (1769) GORDON BÖLLING Requires Authentication Unlicensed Licensed Download PDF	17
Anna Brownell Jameson’s Winter Studies and Summer Rambles in Canada (1838): A European Woman’s View of the New World HEINZ ANTOR Requires Authentication Unlicensed Licensed Download PDF	29
“Capable of Great Improvement”: Catharine Parr Traill’s Images of Canada in The Young Emigrants (1826) KLAUS STIERSTORFER Requires Authentication Unlicensed Licensed Download PDF	55
Deserts and Visions of Paradise: The Representation of the Canadian Landscape in Advertisements and Guides for Canadian Immigrants MARKUS WUST Requires Authentication Unlicensed Licensed Download PDF	67
Destination and Destiny: Contemporary Canadian Plays on Immigrants ALBERT-REINER GLAAP Requires Authentication Unlicensed Licensed Download PDF	83
News From Abroad: Canada in the View of European Travellers, Traders, and Adventurers
The Representation of Canada in Novels by Frederick Marryat and Robert Michael Ballantyne MELANIE JUST Requires Authentication Unlicensed Licensed Download PDF	93
Victorians Abroad: Charles Dickens and Anthony Trollope in Canada MICHAEL HEINZE Requires Authentication Unlicensed Licensed Download PDF	109
“Alle diese Länder sind unbekannt”: Canada in Late Eighteenth and Early Nineteenth-Century German Travel Literature INGMAR PROBST Requires Authentication Unlicensed Licensed Download PDF	119
“A Canadian Literature?”: Elizabeth Smart and the Failures of Nationalism ROBERT MCGILL Requires Authentication Unlicensed Licensed Download PDF	143
In Search of Cathaia – Voyages into the Unexpected ELKE NOWAK Requires Authentication Unlicensed Licensed Download PDF	155
Re-Enacting the Arctic Voyage: The Northwest Passage in British Literature ANNETTE KERN-STÄHLER Requires Authentication Unlicensed Licensed Download PDF	173
Reflections at Home: Canada in the View of Recent European Writers
Stuffed Mooseheads: Canada as (Missing) Cliché in European Theatre CHRISTOPHER INNES Requires Authentication Unlicensed Licensed Download PDF	197
Cultural Reductionism and the Reception of Canadian Literature in Germany JAMES Μ . SKIDMORE Requires Authentication Unlicensed Licensed Download PDF	211
Wildlife Abounds? The Photographic Deconstruction of a Canadian Cliché in Robert Gernhardt’s Satire “Blanket Creek oder Verwilderte Wünsche” SUSANNE PETERS Requires Authentication Unlicensed Licensed Download PDF	227
“One Sees Only What One Knows”: German Popular Literature and its Images of Canada LAURENZ VOLKMANN Requires Authentication Unlicensed Licensed Download PDF	237
Canada as a Role Model? Reflections of a Country in Post-War German Youth Fiction MIRIAM RICHTER Requires Authentication Unlicensed Licensed Download PDF	263
What makes a Canadian? Strategies of Presenting Canadianness in Teaching Materials MATTHIAS MERKL Requires Authentication Unlicensed Licensed Download PDF	281
List of Contributors Requires Authentication Unlicensed Licensed Download PDF	297
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(Deutsch)

Language: English
Publisher: De Gruyter
Audience: Scholars, Institutes, Libraries
Pages
- Front matter: 8
- Main content: 301
Illustrations
- Illustrations: 10
Keywords: Kanada /Literarisches Motiv; Deutsch-Kanadische Beziehungen; Großbritannien /Literatur, Literaturgeschichte

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Published: May 2, 2012
ISBN: 9783110919240

Hardcover

Published: October 17, 2005
ISBN: 9783110183429