In 1759, Voltaire in Candide referred to Canada as "quelques arpents de neige." For several centuries, the image prevailed and was the one most frequently used by poets, writers, and illustrators. Canada was perceived and portrayed as a cold, hard, and unforgiving land. this was not a land for the fainthearted. Canada has yieled its wealth only reluctantly, while periodically threatening life itself with its displays of fury. Discovering its beauty and hidden resources requires patience and perseverance.
A Few Acres of Snow is a colletion of twenty-two essays that explore, from the geographer’s perspective, how poets, artists, and writers have addressed the physical essence of Canada, both landscape and cityscape. "Sense of place" is clearly critical in the works examined in this volume. Included among the book’s many subjects are Hugh MacLennan, Gabrielle Roy, Lucius O’Brien, the art of the Inuit, Lawren Harris, Malcolm Lowry, C.W. Jefferys, L.M. Montgomery, Elizabeth Bishop, Marmaduke Matthews, Antonine Mailet, and the poetry of Japanese Canadians.
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- Bibliography, etc. Note
- Includes bibliographical references and index
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- CaOOCEL
- Dewey Decimal Classification Number
- 813/.0093271
- Dewey Decimal Edition Number
- 20
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- Issued as part of the desLibris books collection
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- 9781770700697 1550021575
- LCCN
- PN3352.L35
- LCCN Item number
- F43 1992eb
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- CaOTU
- Physical Description | Extent
- 1 electronic text (xii, 277 p.)
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- Canada
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- Access restricted to authorized users and institutions
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- (CaBNVSL)thg00603055 (OCoLC)244770767 (CaOOCEL)410449
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- CaOTU
Table of Contents
- Contents 8
- Contributors 10
- List of Illustrations 12
- Acknowledgments 14
- 1 No Vacant Eden 16
- 2 Hugh MacLennan: Literary Geographer of a Nation 31
- 3 "The Kindling Touch of Imagination": Charles William Jefferys and Canadian Identity 43
- 4 Theory in Literary Geography: The Poetry of Charles Mair 63
- 5 Moral Frames for Landscape in Canadian Literature 73
- 6 In a Hard Land: The Geographical Context of Canadian Industrial Landscape Painting 86
- 7 Human Encroachments on a Domineering Physical Landscape 101
- 8 The North and Native Symbols: Landscape as Universe 114
- 9 The Forest Landscape in Maritime Canadian and Swedish Literature: A Comparative Analysis 124
- 10 Elizabeth Bishop from Nova Scotia: "Half Nova Scotian, Half New Englander, Wholly Atlantic" 137
- 11 Ways of Seeing, Ways of Being: Literature, Place, and Tourism in L.M. Montgomery's Prince Edward Island 152
- 12 La Mer, La Patrie: Pointe-aux-Coques by Antonine Maillet 163
- 13 Picturing the Picturesque: Lucius O'Brien's Sunrise on the Saguenay 173
- 14 Revisioning the Roman Catholic Environment: Geographical Attitudes in Gabrielle Roy's The Cashier 186
- 15 Monumental Buildings: Perspectives by Two Montreal Painters 195
- 16 Augurs of "Gentrification": City Houses of Four Canadian Painters 204
- 17 Drawing Earth; Or Representing Region Niagara: An Approach to Public Geography 218
- 18 The Manitoba Landscape of Martha Ostenso's Wild Geese 232
- 19 Deriving Geographical Information from the Novels of Frederick Philip Grove 240
- 20 "Cloud-Bound": The Western Landscapes of Marmaduke Matthews 250
- 21 Structured Feeling: Japanese Canadian Poetry and Landscape 258
- 22 A Loving Nature: Malcolm Lowry in British Columbia 273
- Index 286
- A 286
- B 286
- C 286
- D 287
- E 287
- F 287
- G 287
- H 288
- I 288
- J 288
- K 289
- L 289
- M 289
- N 290
- O 290
- P 290
- Q 291
- R 291
- S 291
- T 292
- U 292
- V 292
- W 292
- Y 292
- Z 292
