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From: Studies in Canadian Literature[(essay date 1997) In the following essay, Fledderus correlates several aspects of the characters and plot of The English Patient to various character types and narrative elements that typify Arthurian romance and...
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From: Maclean's[(interview date 9 September 2002) In the following interview, Ondaatje discusses his decision to profile film editor Walter Murch in The Conversations, drawing comparisons between the processes of film editing and...
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From: Contemporary PoetsIt is ironic that Michael Ondaatje is a writer who exemplifies every aspect of the Whitman tradition in American poetry, for he is a Canadian Writer, though once removed, since he was born and spent his boyhood in Ceylon...
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From: Mosaic[(essay date September 1999) In the following essay, Malcolm explores how the metaphorical and structural uses of the jazz concepts of solo and chorus inform the narrative strategies of In the Skin of a Lion.] Given...
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From: Harsh and Lovely Land: The Major Canadian Poets and the Making of a Canadian TraditionIf [Douglas] LePan's and [Leonard] Cohen's myths have to do with an expedition or descent into darkness, horror, a mystical sensuality, fragmentation, and madness, then Michael Ondaatje's work could be said to carry this...
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From: Essays in Canadian Writing[(essay date summer 1994) In the following essay, Jones traces the diverse ways the conventions of detective fiction and biography converge in Coming through Slaughter, demonstrating the appropriation of both genres by...
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From: Studies in Canadian Literature[(essay date 1996) In the following essay, Ellis discusses Ondaatje's representation of masculinity in The English Patient, demonstrating how the novel constructs a masculine identity through personal relationships...
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From: Studies in Canadian Literature/Études en Littérature Canadienne[(essay date June 2004) In the essay below, Haswell and Edwards analyze The English Patient with regard to ancient Western literary traditions, exploring the significance of the role of the narrator in the novel and the...
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From:Mosaic: A journal for the interdisciplinary study of literature (Vol. 49, Issue 1) Peer-ReviewedThis essay focuses on the depiction of jazz in Michael Ondaatje's Coming through Slaughter I argue that the elusiveness of Buddy Bolden's music and Ondaatje's own experimentalism enact the ethics that is central to the...
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From: Queen's Quarterly[(interview date 5 October 1992) In the following interview, originally conducted on October 5, 1992, Garvie recounts a question and answer session with Ondaatje at a Queen's University reading; she provides an overview...
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From: Biography[(essay date spring 2000) In the following essay, Matthews connects the autobiographical elements of Running in the Family with conventional dramatic techniques in order to demonstrate the work's ritualized "performance"...
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From: Essays in Canadian Writing[(essay date summer 1994) In the following essay, York investigates the thematic importance of gender issues--particularly as they relate to questions of ownership--in Ondaatje's poetry and fiction, observing a...
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From: Canadian Poetry[(essay date 1980) In the following essay, Solecki offers an explanatory overview of Ondaatje's the man with seven toes, arguing that the collection is "a pivotal book in Ondaatje's development."] In view of the...
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From: Essays on Canadian Writing[(essay date summer 1994) In this essay, de Zepetnek analyzes The English Patient from a postmodern perspective, focusing on Ondaatje's use of marginal figures to elucidate the fullness and complexity of the human...
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From:Contemporary Novelists (6th ed.)Michael Ondaatje wanted to call Secular Love, his seventh book of poetry, a novel, but of his three prose works, only In the Skin of a Lion can be clearly identified as a novel: Sam Solecki notes that Ondaatje once...
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From: Canadian Literature[(essay date spring 1992) In the following essay, Bök discusses the sociopolitical implications of the glamorized violence that characterizes the male protagonists of The Collected Works of Billy the Kid,Coming through...
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From: Essays on Canadian WritingI. A Man Falls, Burning, from the Sky This image--arresting, violent, beautiful--occurs towards the beginning of Michael Ondaatje's Booker Prize-winning novel The English Patient. For Ondaatje himself, quite literally,...