The Anadian Women's Paternal elegiesWay: by Tanis MacDonald - 2012

Ontario: Wilfred Laurier University Press, 2012. Hardcover. Very good. Hardcover. 9 1/4" X 6 1/4". ix, 269pp. Very mild shelf wear to covers, corners, and edges of pictorial paper over boards. Pages are clean and unmarked. Binding is sound. ABOUT THIS BOOK: The Daughter's Way investigates negotiations of female subjectivity in twentieth-century Canadian women's elegies with a special emphasis on the father's death as a literary and political watershed. The book examines the work of Dorothy Livesay, P.K. Page, Jay Macpherson, Margaret Atwood, Kristjana Gunnars, Lola Lemire Tostevin, Anne Carson, and Erin Mouré as elegiac daughteronomies literary artifacts of mourning that grow from the poets' investigation into the function and limitations of elegiac convention. Some poets treat the father as a metaphor for socio-political power, while others explore more personal iterations of loss, but all the poets in The Daughter's Way seek to redefine daughterly duty in a contemporary context by challenging… Read More

Wilfrid Laurier University Press. Fine with No dust jacket as issued. 2012. First Edition. Hardcover. 1554583624 . Stiff unmarked book in glossy illustrated boards; about new; 9.1 X 6.1 X 0.9 inches; 279 pages .

Wilfrid Laurier University Press, 2012-05-10. Hardcover. Used: Good.

Waterloo, Ontario: Wilfred Laurier University Press. Pictorial Cover. Very Good. Book is an original, absorbing, and long-overdue critical examination of the way Canadian female poets have written against the grain of the male elegiac tradition. Colourfully illustrated glossy hard cover with black, white, red, yellow titling on front, black and yellow titling on red spine, 269 pages. Cover has light shelf wear, otherwise this very handsome book is in great condition. Shipping charges are calculated for a standard parcel under 1 kg. Additional charges will apply for heavier shipments, but not until the customer agrees. Canadian customers, please note that applicable sales taxes will be added. Please contact us with any questions you might have. Size: 8vo - over 7¾" - 9¾" tall

Waterloo, ON, Canada: WLuPress / Wilfrid Laurier University Press, 2012. Book. Like New. Hardcover. 8vo - over 7¾ - 9¾" tall. As new, no wear. Quite clean. '[This book] investigates negotiations of female subjectivity in twentieth-century Canada women's elegies with a special emphasis on the father's death as a literary and political watershed. The book examines the work of Dorothy Livesay, P.K. Page, Jay Macpherson, Margaret Atwood, Kristjana Gunnars, Lola Lemire Tostevin, Anne Carson, and Erin Moure as elegiac daughteronomies.' 269 pages..