Research Catalog

Title

The daughter's way : Canadian women's paternal elegies / Tanis MacDonald.

Author

MacDonald, Tanis

Publication

Waterloo, Ont. : Wilfrid Laurier University Press, c2012.

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Details

Uniform Title

Project Muse UPCC books

Subject

• Death in literature
• Fathers in literature
• Loss (Psychology) in literature
• Grief in literature
• Mourning customs in literature
• Fathers and daughters in literature
• Paternalism in literature

Genre/Form

Criticism, interpretation, etc.

Bibliography (note)

• Includes bibliographical references and index.

Additional Formats (note)

• Issued also in electronic format.

Processing Action (note)

• committed to retain

Contents

The daughter's way -- Who could not sing: elegy and its (female) discontents -- Elegy and authority : the daughter's way -- Daughters of Jove, daughters of Job : Canadian modernism's bloody-minded women -- Jove's daughter : Dorothy Livesay's elegiac daughteronomy -- "So much militia routed in the man" : P.K. Page's military fathers -- "Absence, havoc" : Jay Macpherson's rebellious daughters -- Differently conceived nations : the mourner's journey -- "Do what you are good at" : Margaret Atwood's authorizing elegies -- The pilgrim and the riddle : Anne Carson's "The anthropology of water" -- Gateway politics, grief poetics : west meets west in Kristjana Gunnar's Zero hour -- Furies and filles de la sagesse : language and difference at century's end -- Signature, inheritance, inquiry : Lola Lemire Tostevin's Cartouches -- Elegy of refusal : Erin Mouré's Furious.

ISBN

• 9781554583621
• 1554583624

OCLC

• 741549534
• SCSB-12225361

Owning Institutions

Harvard Library