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From: Ariel: A Review of International English Literature[(essay date April 1975) In the essay below, Delbaere-Garant traces similarities between Daphne, the protagonist of Owls Do Cry, and the characters in Frame's novels Faces in the Water, The Edge of the Alphabet, and...
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From: Recherches Anglaises et Nord-Americaines[(essay date 1987) In the following essay, Delbaere-Garant surveys Hodgins's use of magical realism in "Separating," "Spit Delaney's Island," and "The Plague Children," arguing that this aspect of the stories serves to...
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From: Recherches Anglaises et Américaines[(essay date 1983) In the following essay, Delbaere-Garant traces themes of emotional interconnectedness, alienation, and self-awareness in Spit Delaney's Island and The Barclay Family Theatre.] Why, why, they said,...
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From: The Contact and the Culmination[(essay date 1996) In the essay below, Delbaere highlights the tension between personal and public spheres in The English Patient, arguing that Ondaatje's use of postmodern techniques allows him to find connections...
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From: The Ring of Fire: Essays on Janet Frame[(essay date 1992) In the essay that follows, Mattei considers the existential as well as the autobiographical basis of "Two Sheep," examining Frame's treatment of the blurring of the distinction between reality and...
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From: Multiple Voices: Recent Canadian Fiction[(essay date July 1989) In the following essay, originally published in 1989, Thomas discusses Swann 's illusive and complex nature.] No writer has shown us more clearly than has Carol Shields in Swann the paradoxical...
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From: Multiple Voices: Recent Canadian Fiction[(essay date 29 November-1 December 1989) In the following essay, Thieme discusses Gone Indian as a post-modernist retelling of the frontier story.] In Gone Indian (1973), the second novel in Robert Kroetsch's 'Out...
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From: The Ring of Fire: Essays on Janet Frame[In the following essay, Mattei interprets the story “Two Sheep” as an existential fable.] `Everything is always a story, but the loveliest ones are those that get written and are not torn up and are taken to a friend...