Browsing Faculty of Graduate Studies Online Theses by Subject "Canadian literature"
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Anglo-Canadian Modernists in Transit[ion]: Collectivity and Identity in Mid-Century Canadian Modernist Travel Writing
(2019-04-29)In the 1940s, A.M. Klein, Patrick Anderson, P.K. Page, and John Glassco contrib-uted to co-edited periodicals, socialized together to various degrees, and enjoyed healthy debates about what constituted modern poetry, what ... -
The Language of Selling Ethnicity: Satirizing the Commodification of Culture, Theatre, and Identity in the Ali & Ali Plays
(2015)If the exoticization of non-mainstream ethnic groups through the deployment of language and stereotypes is a pervasive, and successful, marketing strategy in today’s Western media, then critical, deconstructive play with ... -
Mundane Intimacies and Everyday Violence in Contemporary Canada Comics
(2021-05-05)This dissertation argues that contemporary Canadian comics construct a sustained and critical gaze of the mundane and the everyday. Canadian artists are using the form of comics to reveal the structures of oppression and ... -
"Sea roads": The Circulatory Poetics of The Song Fishermen's Song Sheet
(2022-08-25)This thesis responds to Peter Thompson’s call for fieldwork that considers the circulation of conceptions and artistic representations of the Folk at home and elsewhere in early twentieth-century Atlantic Canadian literature. ... -
“We’re never ourselves until we contain two souls”: Holocaust Postmemory and Intimacy in Anne Michaels’s Fugitive Pieces
(2017-09-01)Marianne Hirsch’s concept of Holocaust “postmemory” provides a theoretical framework for the children of Holocaust survivors to understand and explore their inherited memories of trauma and loss. In this thesis I place ...