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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: 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: 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: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: Literature Film Quarterly[(essay date 2000) In the following essay, Emery contrasts the gendered differences of attitudes toward personal identity and ownership in The English Patient and its film adaptation.] Michael Ondaatje's novel The...
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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:Mosaic: An interdisciplinary critical journal (Vol. 53, Issue 1) Peer-ReviewedThe figure of the stranger, together with the related tropes of naming and mapping, pervades Michael Ondaatje's fiction and has often been commented on by critics. Hilde Staels, for instance, reads Anil's Ghost in the...
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From:Studies in the Novel (Vol. 36, Issue 2) Peer-ReviewedIn 1996, Anthony Minghella's cinematic adaptation of Michael Ondaatje's The English Patient enthralls movie-goers with its romantic tale of a desert explorer's tragic love affair at the commencement of World War II. The...
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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: Kenyon Review[(essay date summer 2003) Asian author Ghosh assumes a reflective pose in the aftermath of the September, 2001 attacks on the World Trade Center in New York City. He describes the "twin terrors of insurgency and...
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From:Journal of Romance Studies (Vol. 11, Issue 1) Peer-ReviewedIn the wake of postcolonial studies, questions of power and space have gained pivotal significance and geography has become a powerful tool in cultural analysis. However, the simple and metaphorical use of spatial...
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From:Michigan Academician (Vol. 34, Issue 1) Peer-ReviewedIdentity as a Political Construct in The English Patient. Jennifer Bedford, Northern Michigan University, English Department, 1401 Presque Isle Avenue, Marquette, MI 49855; (O) 906/227-1785, (H) 906/228-6981;...
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From:Mosaic: An interdisciplinary critical journal (Vol. 49, Issue 3) Peer-ReviewedThe dislocation of characters causes narrative discontinuity in Michael Ondaatje's The Cat's Table. For third culture characters who move through a series of international locations without a specific attachment or...
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From: Studies in Canadian Literature[(essay date 1983) In the essay below, Owens presents a thorough analysis of The Collected Works of Billy the Kid, focusing in particular on the tension between order and disorder in the collection. Owens asserts that...
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From: Studies in Canadian Literature/Études en Littérature Canadienne[(essay date 2000) In the following essay, Dawson considers the relationship between names and identity in The English Patient, stressing the ways in which Ondaatje's exploration of his characters's identities evokes a...
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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:Poetry for Students (Vol. 8. )Michael Ondaatje's "To a Sad Daughter" is a poem about the way that surfaces mask much deeper emotions. The recurring theme of the hockey goalie, those caged athletes who don the personas of highly decorated masks not...
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From:Notes on Contemporary Literature (Vol. 40, Issue 4) Peer-ReviewedThe Last Enemy (1942), a war memoir by Richard Hillary--the most famous World War II flyer, author and English patient--is not mentioned among the thirteen books in the Acknowledgments of Michael Ondaatje's The English...
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From: Spider Blues: Essays on Michael OndaatjeMichael Ondaatje is a poet of reality. In applying this phrase to Ondaatje, I wish to call attention to the fact that in his poetry the fundamental or essential nature of experience is consistently being described and...