William J Berg

Literature and Painting in Quebec

From Imagery to Identity

• Broschiertes Buch

Produktbeschreibung

Focusing on the interplay between nature and culture in landscape representation, Literature and Painting in Quebec contends that both have reflected and fashioned the meaning of French-Canadian nationhood.

Produktdetails

• Verlag: University of Toronto Press
• 2nd edition
• Seitenzahl: 394
• Erscheinungstermin: 28. Juni 2013
• Englisch
• Abmessung: 228mm x 154mm x 35mm
• Gewicht: 658g
• ISBN-13: 9781442615946
• ISBN-10: 144261594X
• Artikelnr.: 37185288

Autorenporträt

William J. Berg is a professor in the Department of French and Italian at the University of Wisconsin-Madison.

Inhaltsangabe

Illustrations
Acknowledgments
Introduction: The Landscape of Quebec: Nature and Culture, / Space and
Place
Chapter One: The French Heritage: From Utopia to Eden
Chapter Two: Race, Place, and Identity in the Nineteenth-Century Short
Story
Chapter Three: The Father's Land Lost: Country Versus versus City in the
Early Novel
Chapter Five: Impressionism and Nationalism in the Early Twentieth-Century
Chapter Six: Space, Place, and a Race That Will Not Die
Chapter Seven: Liberation and Modernity in the Wake of the War
Chapter Eight: From Solitude to Solidarity: La montagne secrète
Chapter Nine: From Confinement to Constellation: Le premier jardin
Chapter Ten: ‘My Land(scape) is Winte’
Conclusion: From Imagery to Identity
Endnotes
Works Cited
Index