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Literary Criticism Canadian

The Other Side of Dailiness

Photography in the Works of Alice Munro, Timothy Findley, Michael Ondaatje, and Margaret Laurence

by (author) Lorraine York

Publisher
ECW Press
Initial publish date
Jan 1988
Category
Canadian
  • Hardback

    ISBN
    9781550220032
    Publish Date
    Jun 1987
    List Price
    $25.00
  • Paperback / softback

    ISBN
    9781550220025
    Publish Date
    Jan 1988
    List Price
    $15.00

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Why are contemporary writers of fiction in Canada so obsessed with photography? Timothy Findley's The Wars, Michael Ondaatje's Coming Through Slaughter, Margaret Laurence's The Diviners, and Alice Munro's Lives of Girls and Women all present the photograph as a virtual analogue to the act of creating narrative. Lorraine York examines four Canadian writers of fiction whose works span the literary schools of modernism, magic realism, and postmodernism. For Canadian postmodernists, photography becomes a means of examining, in an acutely self-conscious way, their need to break out of the traditional confines of narrative form.

About the author

Lorraine York is Senator William McMaster Chair in Canadian Literature and Culture in the Department of English and Cultural Studies at McMaster University in Hamilton, Ontario. Her most recent books are Margaret Atwood and the Labour of Literary Celebrity (2013) and Literary Celebrity in Canada (2007). She is currently at work on a project on reluctant celebrity.

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