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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: Harper's[(review date February 2003) In the following excerpt, Dunne examines Ondaatje's discussions with Walter Murch in The Conversations, detailing the contributions of Murch and other film and sound editors to the movie...
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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: Literature/Film Quarterly[(essay date summer 2003) In this essay, Krantz surveys the critical debate surrounding the fidelity of the film version of the The English Patient to the original novel and examines the ways in which audiences respond...
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From: New Statesman[(review date 8 May 2000) In the following review, Cusk highlights the thematic significance of war and death in Anil's Ghost.] Even when writing of corruption, death and decay, Michael Ondaatje's prose is the very...
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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 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:Contemporary Poets (6th ed.)It 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:Poetry for Students (Vol. 8. )One of Canada's most popular and one of its best writers, Michael Ondaatje, came to Canada by way of Ceylon and England before immigrating to Canada in 1962. Perhaps his early experiences in such diverse cultures account...
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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: Literature Interpretation TheoryIn the end it is always the ruling classes, bourgeois certainly, but above all aristocratic, that long mourn the empires, and their grief always has a stagey quality. Benedict Anderson Ondaatje's novel, however, chooses...
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From: Canadian Literature[(essay date spring 1992) In the following essay, Kanaganayakam examines the representation of Sri Lankan culture in Running in the Family, discussing the personal and collective implications of the nation's colonial...
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From: Notes on Contemporary Literature[(essay date May 2006) In the following essay, Meyers chronicles the ways in which The English Patient draws upon the life and experiences of early twentieth-century British soldier T. E. Lawrence, better known as...
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From: Michael Ondaatje[(essay date 1993) In the following essay, Barbour traces Ondaatje's poetic development from his first collection through There's a Trick with a Knife I'm Learning to Do. Barbour discovers a trend in Ondaatje's writing...
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From:Poetry for Students (Vol. 19. )In reviewing Michael Ondaatje's 1991 collection of poetry, The Cinnamon Peeler: Selected Poems, poet Cyril Dabydeen, referring to the "seemingly distinctive personae" that each poem in the collection seems to have,...
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From: Canadian Literature[The Collected Works of Billy the Kid] fixes a certain view of the Kid into an intense, fully realized image. ... (p. 42) Ondaatje's mythmaking is a careful process, built up by various means, and he indicates in...
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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: Postcolonial Postmortems: Crime Fiction from a Transcultural Perspective[(essay date 2006) In this essay, Knepper describes Anil's Ghost as enacting a "postcolonial postmortem" and analyzes the ways in which Ondaatje makes literal as well as figurative use of established roles and...
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From: Ariel[(essay date January-April 2004) In the following essay, Ratti explores Ondaatje's utilization of the language of universal human rights as both a structuring and an artistic force in Anil's Ghost, concentrating...
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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...