Rudy Wiebe and the Historicity of the WordIn 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. |
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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
accept action attempts authority Bakhtin Bear's becomes belief Bible Big Bear Block Blue Mountains body breaks Canada Canadian Chapter characters Christian church closed comes context cultural dialogic discourse dominant effect English entirely example exists fact Falcon's forces function God's hear historical human Indian intentions interpretation Jakob James Jesus John land language linguistic live Lovely Enemy meaning Mennonite monologic moral Morris Mountains of China narrative novel object passage past Peace Shall Destroy physical political position possible Press question readers reading religious remains rhetorical Riel Riel's Rudy Wiebe Scorched-Wood Scriptures single social society speak speech spiritual story struggle Temptations of Big tion truth understanding University utterances values vision Vital Candle voice White Wiebe Wiebe's Winnipeg words writing
Informations bibliographiques
| Titre | Rudy Wiebe and the Historicity of the Word |
| Auteurs | Penelope Van Toorn, Penny van Toorn |
| Éditeur | University of Alberta, 1995 |
| ISBN | 0888642652, 9780888642653 |
| Longueur | 256 pages |
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