The Daughter's Way: Canadian Women's Paternal Elegies

by Tanis MacDonald

The Daughter's Way investigates negotiations of female subjectivity in twentieth-century Canadian women's elegies with a special emphasis on the father's death as a literary and political watershed. The book examines the work of Dorothy Livesay, P.K. Page, Jay Macpherson, Margaret Atwood, Kristjana Gunnars, Lola Lemire Tostevin, Anne Carson, and Erin Mour? as elegiac daughteronomies--literary artifacts of mourning that grow from the poets'...

• Format: Hardcover
• Language: English
• ISBN: 1554583624
• ISBN13: 9781554583621
• Release Date: May 2012
• Publisher: Wilfrid Laurier University Press
• Length: 350 Pages
• Weight: 1.15 lbs.
• Dimensions: 0.9" x 6.0" x 9.1"