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The Vivified Sacrificial Rites as the Site of Conflation of Man and Animal in Adele Wiseman’s "The Sacrifice"

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Tazbir J.
Analyses/Rereadings/Theories: A Journal Devoted to Literature, Film and Theatre
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2018
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vol. 5
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issue 1
43-54
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The article juxtaposes two explanations of the ancient phenomenon of sacrifice, one of which, formulated by René Girard, emphasizes the aspects of scapegoating and transference of people’s violent inclinations, while the other, developed by Jonathan Klawans and focused on the ancient Israeli sacrificial customs, attributes chief significance to the notions of purity, defilement, and achieving the state of imitatio Dei by the offerer. Though these explanations are at odds in many respects, with Klawans being vocally critical of Girard’s approach, the article seeks to present both of them as applicable to the context of a contemporary sacrifice depicted in Adele Wiseman’s novel, The Sacrifice. Its protagonist, the article argues, finds a way of blending these two orders together largely by the use of the mental figure of the animal, the projection of which onto his victim allows him to perceive her in dualistic manner, as simultaneously sacred and wicked. In the light of this, the ostensibly morally sanctioned practice of ancient Abrahamic sacrifice is shown to contain an unaccounted for potential to instigate ruinous acts, and the figure of the animal, within a situation characterized by the blurring of boundaries and distinctions, with which a sacrificial crisis is unalterably associated, attains an ambiguous, if not sinister, significance.
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On the Threshold: Haunting Transgressions in Gaétan Soucy’s The Little Girl Who Was Too Fond of Matches

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Szatanik Z.
Avant
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2017
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vol. 8
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issue 2
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The main aim of this article is to show how Gaétan Soucy’s 1998 bestselling novel The Little Girl Who Was Too Fond of Matches both extends and complicates the Canadian Gothic tradition. The first part focuses onCanada as a “haunted culture,” and attempts to identify the ghosts which hauntCanada and make themselves manifest in the nation’s gothic literature. I ponder the postcolonial character of Canadian Gothic, and reflect on the representations of monstrous nature inCanada’s early fiction. A short section is devoted to the characteristics of French-Canadian Gothic. The second part of my article proposes a reading of Soucy’s novel which concentrates on gothic transgressions the story revolves around. One of my assumptions is that the novel invites ecocritical and ecofeminist interpretations, and that its representations of nature also reveal the subversive character of the text whose narrator, by her own admission, locates herself on the threshold of things.
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On the Threshold: Haunting Transgressions in Gaétan Soucy’s The Little Girl Who Was Too Fond of Matches

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Szatanik Z.
Avant
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2017
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vol. 8
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issue 2
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The main aim of this article is to show how Gaétan Soucy’s 1998 bestselling novel The Little Girl Who Was Too Fond of Matches both extends and complicates the Canadian Gothic tradition. The first part focuses onCanada as a “haunted culture,” and attempts to identify the ghosts which hauntCanada and make themselves manifest in the nation’s gothic literature. I ponder the postcolonial character of Canadian Gothic, and reflect on the representations of monstrous nature inCanada’s early fiction. A short section is devoted to the characteristics of French-Canadian Gothic. The second part of my article proposes a reading of Soucy’s novel which concentrates on gothic transgressions the story revolves around. One of my assumptions is that the novel invites ecocritical and ecofeminist interpretations, and that its representations of nature also reveal the subversive character of the text whose narrator, by her own admission, locates herself on the threshold of things.
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“Neatly Severing The Body From The Head:” Female Abjection In Margaret Atwood’S The Edible Woman

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Kriebernegg U.
Linguaculture
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2012
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vol. 2012
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issue 1
53-64
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In Margaret Atwood’s fiction and poetry, wounded female bodies are a frequently used metaphor for the central characters’ severe identity crises. Atwood’s female protagonists or lyric personae fight marginalization and victimization and often struggle to position themselves in patriarchal society. In order to maintain the illusion of a stable identity, the characters often disavow parts of themselves and surrender to a subversive memory that plays all sorts of tricks on them. However, these “abject” aspects (J. Kristeva, Powers of Horror) cannot be repressed and keep returning, threatening the women’s only seemingly unified selves: In Surfacing, for example, the protagonist suffers from emotional numbness after an abortion. In The Edible Woman, the protagonist’s crisis results in severe eating disorders and in Cat’s Eye and The Robber Bride the central characters’ conflicts are externalized and projected onto haunting ghost-like trickster figures. In this paper, I will look at various representations of “wounded bodies and wounded minds” in samples of Margaret Atwood’s The Edible Woman, focusing on the intersection of memory and identity and analyzing the strategies for healing that Margaret Atwood offers.
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Men Without Fingers, Men Without Toes

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Dobson K.
Text Matters: A Journal of Literature, Theory and Culture
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2019
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issue 9
185-196
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What happens once the rogue rides off into the sunset? This cross-genre essay considers the figure of the rogue’s decline and gradual dismemberment in the face of the pressures of the world. Beginning with the “rogue” digits and other body parts lost by the men who surrounded him in his youth-especially his grandfather-Dobson considers the costs of labour and poverty in rural environments. For him, the rogue is one who falls somehow outside of cultural, social, and political norms- the one who has decided to step outside of the establishment, outside of the corrupt élites and their highfalutin ways. To do so comes at a cost. Turning to the life of writer George Ryga and to the poetry and fiction of Patrick Lane, this essay examines the real, physical, material, and social costs of transgression across multiple works linked to rural environments in Alberta and British Columbia. The essay shows the ways in which very real forms of violence discipline the rogue, pushing the rogue back into submission or out of mind, back into the shadowy past from whence the rogue first came. Resisting nostalgia while evincing sympathy, this essay delves into what is at stake for one who would become a rogue.
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The Transformative Power of Words: Subverting Traumatic Experiences in Tomson Highway’s Kiss of the Fur Queen and Lee Maracle’s “Goodbye Snauq”

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Thom S.
Anglica. An International Journal of English Studies
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2016
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issue 25/1
199-217
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In the past few decades Native Canadian literature has gained a large and wide audience and has been described as a new and exciting field by critics. While Native-authored texts cannot be reduced to protest writing any longer, the collective trauma, caused by oppression, cultural alienation, deterritorialization as well as persisting inequalities and racism, remains an important theme. Tomson Highway’s debut novel Kiss of the Fur Queen and Lee Maracle’s short story “Goodbye Snauq” both effectively communicate and subvert traumatic experiences. By using a plethora of strategies, these two narratives demonstrate that literature can function as a suitable space for the symbolic transformation and healing of pain and suffering.
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“Survival is insufficient”: The Postapocalyptic Imagination of Emily St. John Mandel’s Station Eleven

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Feldner M.
Anglica. An International Journal of English Studies
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2018
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issue 27/1
165-179
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Postapocalyptic narratives proliferate in contemporary fiction and cinema. A convincing and successful representative of the genre, Emily St. John Mandel’s Station Eleven (2014) can nevertheless be distinguished from other postapocalyptic texts, such as Cormac McCarthy’s The Road (2006), Margaret Atwood’s Maddaddam trilogy, and the television series The Walking Dead (2010–). The novel does not focus on survival, struggle, and conflict but rather examines the possibility and necessity of cultural expression in a postapocalyptic setting, demonstrating the importance and value of art and memory even in strained circumstances. As a result, it presents an unusually optimistic and hopeful vision of an otherwise bleak future.
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“[They] would say she was betraying Poland already”: Major Themes in Contemporary Canadian Literature by Writers of Polish Origins

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Drewniak D.
Anglica. An International Journal of English Studies
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2018
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issue 27/1
149-164
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In June 2015 The Canadian Polish Research Institute organized a panel discussion chaired by professor Tamara Trojanowska called “Writing Change and Continuity: Culture, Languages, Generations.” The debate featured esteemed writers of Polish descent: Eva Stachniak, Andrew Borkowski, Ania Szado, Jowita Bydlowska and Aga Maksimowska. Although the writers in question do not belong to the same generation and do not share exactly the same emigration experience, nowadays they form a distinguished group of Canadian writers of Polish origins. The aim of this paper is to look at the selection of the latest texts written by authors of the Polish diaspora in Canada such as Eva Stachniak’s The Chosen Maiden (2017), Jowita Bydlowska’s Drunk Mom (2013) and Guy (2016), Ania Szado’s Studio Saint Ex (2013) and Aga Maksimowska’s Giant (2012) among others. This paper does not venture to repeat the conclusions drawn during the panel but rather to extend the exploration of the recent Polish diasporic, multivoiced writing as well as offer a modest supplement to the famous analysis of ethnic writing proposed by Smaro Kamboureli in her Scandalous Bodies: Diasporic Literature in English Canada (2009). Hence, the discussion comprises the authors’ choice of themes, (dis)appearance of immigrant motifs, references to Poland as a country of origin and Canada as the new homeland as well as an analysis of the genres the aforementioned authors use.
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W Kanadzie, w domu, w kuchni, na linoleum – o opowiadaniach Alice Munro

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Izdebska A.
Białostockie Studia Literaturoznawcze
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2015
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vol. 6
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The article analyzes two texts by the Canadian Nobel Prize winner, Alice Munro – Lives of Girls and Women and Who Do You Think You Are? Both books draw from the Bildungsroman tradition, and given such origin, they rather seem to represent the genre of short story novel than that of short stories collection. The article’s author concentrates on the manner in which Munro depicts the coming of age of protagonists while using certain aspects of space and the Gothic convention.
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„Festiwal kanadyjskiej pisarki”, czyli o mniej znanych polskich tłumaczeniach Anne of Green Gables Lucy Maud Montgomery

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Pielorz D.
Porównania
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2020
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vol. 26
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issue 1
235-254
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The article deals with Polish translations of Lucy Maud Montgomery’s book Anne of Green Gables. The author focuses especially on the renderings published at the turn of the 21st century, when the so called “festival of the Canadian writer” began. This phrase is used in reference to the renascence of the popularity of Montgomery’s work in Poland. This cultural and marketing phenomenon not only affectedreaders, but also influenced the publishers’ and translators’ choices. In the article, some dimensions of this casus are discussed. Then some excerpts of translations are compared in order to show the features of the image of Canada inscribed in them by translators. What is more, the author points out that the Polish renderings can provide interesting information about the different aspects of Polish reality at theturn of the 21st century, in particular about the publishing policies and the Polish culture, aesthetic norms and trends or stereotypes.
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Artykuł poświęcony jest polskim tłumaczeniom powieści Anne of Green Gables L. M. Montgomery. Autorka skupia się przede wszystkim na tych przekładach, które pochodzą z lat dziewięćdziesiątych XX oraz pierwszych dekad XXI wieku. Zapoczątkowany wówczas renesans popularności twórczości Montgomery, określany mianem „festiwalu kanadyjskiej pisarki”, to fenomen jednocześnie kulturowy i wydawniczo-marketingowy, wpływający na gusta czytelników, ale również na decyzje wydawców oraz tłumaczy. W artykule omówione zostały niektóre aspekty tego zjawiska. Natomiast zarys analizy wybranych fragmentów przekładów przeprowadzono w taki sposób, by pokazać wpisany w nie przez tłumaczy oraz tłumaczkiobraz Kanady. Jednocześnie autorka zwraca uwagę na fakt, że polskie Anie… mogą stanowić źródło wiedzy o różnych aspektach rzeczywistości naszego kraju na przełomie XX i XXI wieku, zwłaszcza o polityce wydawniczej oraz panujących w rodzimej kulturze normach czy modach estetycznych, a także pokutujących stereotypach.
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Spatial Longings in Margaret Atwood’s Death by Landscape and Emma Donoghue’s Room

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Szatanik Z.
Świat i Słowo
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2022
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vol. 38
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issue 1
367-380
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Niniejsza interpretacja dwóch kanadyjskich klasyków – opowiadania Margaret Atwood pt. „Śmierć na tle krajobrazu” i powieści Emmy Donoghue zatytułowanej „Pokój” – jest w rzeczywistości pretekstem do rozważań o kanadyjskiej tęsknocie za, i strachu przed otwartą przestrzenią. W obu tekstach jej wyrazem staje się nostalgia za przestrzenią zewnętrzną, jednoznacznie nie-domową. Używając teorii agorafobii jako narzędzia interpretacji, proponuję alternatywne odczytanie kanadyjskiej przestrzeni, wpisane jednak w wielowiekową tradycję definiowania „kanadyjskości” poprzez przestrzenne metafory i relacje między jednostką a miejscem.
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