Butterfly on a Rock: A Study of Themes and Images in Canadian Literature

by Douglas G. Jones

Book Overview

In this volume Douglas Jones considers some of the themes and visages that have taken root in Canadian poetry and fiction during the past three generations. The persistent concern of widely different authors with these similar themes and images suggests that the individual writers share a common cultural predicament. It may also suggest that they participate in and help to articulate a larger imaginative world, a supreme fiction of the kind, that...

• Format: Paperback
• Language: English
• ISBN: 0802061869
• ISBN13: 9780802061867
• Release Date: December 1970
• Publisher: University of Toronto Press
• Length: 208 Pages
• Weight: 0.66 lbs.
• Dimensions: 0.4" x 6.1" x 9.2"
• Grade Range: Postsecondary and higher