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From: Journal of Canadian Studies[(essay date winter 1998/1999) In the essay below, Wyile studies Findley's dialogic use of italics as a fundamental aspect of his postmodernist strategy, employed to destabilize authority and fragment subjectivity.] In...
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From:Contemporary Novelists (6th ed.)Timothy Findley began writing fiction in his early twenties and contributed a story to the first issue of Tamarack Review in 1956, but during this earlier period he was largely involved in acting, playing at the first...
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From: Mosaic[(essay date September 1997) In the following essay, Lamont-Stewart traces how Green Grass, Running Water and Timothy Findley's Not Wanted on the Voyage "challenge the authoritarian ideology of the Judaeo-Christian...
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From:St. James Guide to Fantasy WritersAlthough most of Timothy Findley's work is mainstream fiction, he has made a significant contribution to that small sub-genre perhaps best described as rewritings of Noah's Flood, with his novel Not Wanted on the Voyage....
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From: Timothy Findley and the Aesthetics of Fascism[(essay date 1998) In the following essay, Bailey describes Not Wanted on the Voyage as a parody of the story of Noah's Ark that challenges the patriarchal assumptions of Judeo-Christian myth from a feminist point of...
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From:Mosaic: A journal for the interdisciplinary study of literature (Vol. 30, Issue 3) Peer-ReviewedAmong the many secrets that Eve Kosofsky Sedgwick has disclosed in her Epistemology of the Closet, the one which is most crucial to gender studies in the broadest sense is the agenda that lies hidden in the concept of...
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From:Twentieth-Century Romance & Historical Writers (3rd ed.)One of Canada's most successful novelists today, Timothy Findley began his career as an actor and scriptwriter, working on various stage, television, and radio productions. By 1962 he began to write full-time resulting...