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"The search for the 'Great Canadian Novel' has long continued throughout our history. Controversially, to say the least, Gerald Lynch maintains that a version of it may already have been written - as a great Canadian short story cycle. In this unique text, the author provides a fascinating literary-historical survey and genre study of the English-Canadian short story cycle - the literary form that occupies the middle ground between short stories and novels. This wide-ranging volume has much to say about the continuing relationship between place and identity in Canadian literature and culture." "Initially, using Stephen Leacock's Sunshine Sketches of a Little Town for illustrative purposes, Lynch discusses two definitive features of short story cycles: the ways in which their form conveys meaning and the paramount function of their concluding - or 'return' - stories. Lynch then devotes five discrete but related chapters to six Canadian short story cycles, spanning some one hundred years from Duncan Campbell Scott to Thomas King, and tracing some surprising continuities in this distinctive genre. A number of the works are discussed extensively for the first time within the tradition of the Canadian short story cycle, which has never before been accorded book-length study. This engaging and intelligent volume will be of interest to the general reader as well as specialists in Canadian literature."--Jacket
820 <71> --- 820-32 --- Engelse literatuur--Canada --- Engelse literatuur: kort verhaal; novelle --- 820-32 Engelse literatuur: kort verhaal; novelle --- 820 <71> Engelse literatuur--Canada --- Canadian fiction --- Cycles (Literature) --- Short stories, Canadian --- Canadian short stories --- Literature --- Sequels (Literature) --- History and criticism --- Fiction --- American literature --- anno 1900-1999 --- Canada --- Cycles (Literature). --- History and criticism. --- Englisch. --- Kanada --- Dominion of Canada --- Puissance du Canada --- Kanadier --- Provinz Kanada --- 01.07.1867 --- -Short stories, Canadian --- -Fiction
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From the preface: "Stephen Leacock is still often regarded as a writer of lightweight amusements and unchallenging satire, as an author without an imaginative centre who lacked a vision of sufficient power and clarity to sustain a lifetime of serious writing. According to this view, which has been too easily received, Leacock squandered an early, promising talent (though he was in fact, middle-aged when he published Sunshine Sketches of a Little Town in 1912), and consequently his writings, like his legendary Lord Ronald, "rode madly off in all directions." After years of chasing down Leacock's numerous literary mounts, I can assert that none of this is true. Leacock's writing emerges from a centre that is the confluence of the two traditions of humanism and toryism, traditions that found in Leacock fertile ground for the propagation of such qualities as tolerance of human fallibility and acceptance of social responsibility. What is remarkable with respect to Leacock's literary output is that even his furthest-flung, seemingly inconsequential humourous pieces move in relation to this tory-humanist centre." Lynch invites us to accompany him on an odyssey through Leacock's two main works, Sunshine Sketches and Arcadian Adventures of the Idle Rich . He aspires to enlighten the open-minded reader, and is highly successful in doing so." Elspeth Cameron, Coordinator of Canadian Literature and Language Program, New College, University of Toronto
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330.1 --- Skin --- -Cutis --- Integument (Skin) --- Beauty, Personal --- Body covering (Anatomy) --- Economische grondbegrippen. Algemene begrippen in de economie --- Diseases --- Economics. --- Diseases. --- -Economische grondbegrippen. Algemene begrippen in de economie --- 330.1 Economische grondbegrippen. Algemene begrippen in de economie --- -330.1 Economische grondbegrippen. Algemene begrippen in de economie --- Cutis --- Skin Diseases --- Peau --- therapy. --- Maladies --- Social Sciences and Humanities. Economics -- Economics (General) --- ALLW. --- -Diseases --- Social Sciences and Humanities. Economics -- Economics (General).
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Canadian cultural icon Stephen Leacock was as wise and witty as he was prolific, and as sharp as he was humane. A professor of political economy, author, and social critic, Leacock has long been considered Canada's foremost humourist and social satirist. He was at his best in observational humour but excelled as well in the unforgettable aphorism and the pointed riposte. Leacock's views on life provide a uniquely Canadian take on the world, an ironic perspective which continues to delight and instruct readers around the globe. Introduced and compiled by scholar and writer Gerald Lynch, with material gleaned from the approximately sixty books of fiction and non-fiction Leacock published, Leacock on Life is an anthology of Leacock's wit and wisdom, beginning with his memorable preface to Sunshine Sketches of a Little Town and ending with his bitter-sweet essay, 'Three Score and Ten.' With selections classified under forty-five headings and a reference key sourcing all quotations, this collection makes widely available Leacock's views on such subjects as: Canadian politics, love, education, economics, humour, technology, business, America, and writing, among many others. Leacock had opinions on every subject, and they are as humorous, provocative, and relevant today as when first articulated.
Conduct of life --- Leacock, Stephen, --- Leacock, Stephen Butler,
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"At each point in time, individuals in an economy are making choices with respect to the acquisition, sale, and/or use of a variety of different goods. Such activity can be summarized by aggregate variables such as an economy's total production of various goods and services, the aggregate level of unemployment, the general level of interest rates, and the overall level of prices. Macroeconomics is the study of movements in such economy-wide variables as output, employment, and prices." "The focus of this book is on developing simple theoretical models that provide insight into the reasons for fluctuations in such aggregate variables. These models explore how shocks or "impulses" to the economy impact individuals' behavior in specific markets and the resulting implications in terms of changes in aggregate variables."--BOOK JACKET.
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