Land Sliding Imagining Space P: Imagining Space, Presence, and Power in Canadian Writing

by William H. New

Why have so many of this century's prominent political and literary critics wanted to find a single metaphor to describe the character of Canada? Why do so many use land-based metaphors to ask about the divisions between centres and margins, colony and empire, wealth and power? W.H. New, in Land Sliding: Imagining Space, Presence, and Power in Canadian Writing, investigates this established paradigm by examining why so many writers have accepted...

• Format: Paperback
• Language: English
• ISBN: 0802079628
• ISBN13: 9780802079626
• Release Date: May 1997
• Publisher: University of Toronto Press
• Length: 272 Pages
• Weight: 0.98 lbs.
• Dimensions: 0.8" x 6.3" x 8.8"
• Grade Range: Postsecondary and higher