A Peepshow with Views of the Interior: paratexts
paratexts
- Publisher
- Palimpsest Press
- Initial publish date
- Nov 2009
- Category
- General, Essays
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Paperback / softback
- ISBN
- 9780978491765
- Publish Date
- Nov 2009
- List Price
- $18.00
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Description
A collection of engaging essays on writing and material culture that addresses our ability to know or understand “things?. In A Peepshow with Views of the Interior, acclaimed fiction writer and poet. Aislinn Hunter writes lyrical paratexts on topics ranging from Charlotte Brontë?s dogs, bird displays in museums, peep shows, and clocks and convalescence.
About the author
Aislinn Hunter is the author of two books of poetry Into the Early Hours and The Possible Past, a short story collection What’s Left Us, and a novel Stay, all of which won national awards including the Dorothy Livesay Poetry Prize, the Pat Lowther Award, The ReLit Prize, the Gerald Lampert Award, The Danuta Gleed Award and a nomination for the Journey Prize.She teaches creative writing part-time at Kwantlen Polytechnic University, and divides her time between Canada and the UK where she is finishing a Ph.D. at the University of Edinburgh.
