Rudy Wiebe and the Historicity of the WordUniversity of Alberta, 1995 - 256 pages In an entertaining re-examination of Rudy Wiebe's major novels, Penny van Toorn presents a completely new way of reading one of Canada's foremost contemporary writers. She analyzes Wiebe's struggle to control the "socially contested territory" of language, and identifies the principles that underlie his complex narrative structures. |
Table des matières
Breaking Open the Capsule | 17 |
First and Vital Candle | 35 |
History as Inadvertent Confession | 67 |
The Temptations of Big Bear | 99 |
The ScorchedWood People | 139 |
My Lovely Enemy | 163 |
Where is Your Voice Coming From Rudy Wiebe? | 195 |
Notes | 213 |
Bibliography | 227 |
Expressions et termes fréquents
Abe's Anabaptist articulate authority Bakhtin Bakhtin and Volosinov Bear's becomes belief Bible Biblical Big Bear Blue Mountains Canada Canadian Literature Chapter characters Christian context Cree cultural Deacon Block discourse dominant Dueck's English Escha Falcon's Fiction Frieda Gillian God's guage hear heteroglossia historical human Indian inner speech internal dialogization Jakob Friesen James James's Jesus John Reimer Josh Bishop Liesel linguistic Louis Riel Lovely Enemy Marsden meaning Menno Simons Métis monologic moral Morris Morris's Mountains of China narrative narrator narratorial Ojibwa parodic Peace Shall Destroy plurality political polyphony protagonist question readers reading religious rhetorical Riel's voice Robert Kroetsch Rudy Wiebe Scorched-Wood Scriptures semantic signifies social speak speech genres spiritual story struggle Temptations of Big Thom tion Toronto truth utterances verbal vision Vital Candle Voice Coming voices and languages W.J. Keith Wapiti White Wiebe dramatizes Wiebe's authorial Wiebe's novels Wiebe's text words