Splitting Images: Contemporary Canadian Ironies

by Linda Hutcheon

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Starting from the premise that Canadian culture offers "particularly fertile ground for the cultivation of doubleness," this book explores the numerous forms of irony observable in Canadian literature and visual arts. Individual chapters focus on the ironies of ethnicity and race, irony as a strategy for addressing Canada's colonial past, feminists' uses of irony, and a specific case of photography and the amplification of ironies in the work of artistic...

Format:Paperback

Language:English

ISBN:0195408306

ISBN13:9780195408300

Release Date:May 1991

Publisher:Oxford University Press, USA

Length:176 Pages

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Art Arts, Music & Photography Children's Books Criticism & Theory History & Criticism Literary Criticism Literary Criticism & Collections Literature & Fiction Science Science & Math

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