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"'Survival' is the most startling book ever written about Canadian literature. It is ... a book of criticism, a manifesto, and a collection of personal and subversive remarks. Margaret Atwood begins by asking: 'what have been the central preoccupations of our poetry and fiction?' Her answer is twofold: 'survival and victims.' Atwood applies this thesis in twelve brilliant, witty and impassioned chapters. From Moodie to MacLennan to Blais, from Pratt to Purdy to Newlove, from Godfrey to Gibson, she lights up familiar books in wholly new perspectives." The themes are: survival; nature the monster; animal victims; early people (indians and eskimos); ancestral totems (explorers and settlers); family portrait: masks of the bear; failed sacrifices (the reluctant immigrant); the casual incident of death; the paralyzed artist; ice women vs. earth mothers; Quebec: burning mansions; and, jail-breaks and recreations.
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Survival: A Thematic Guide to Canadian Literature
2013, ReadHowYouWant.com, Limited
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Survival: A Thematic Guide to Canadian Literature
2012, House of Anansi Press
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Survival: A Thematic Guide to Canadian Literature
2012, House of Anansi Press
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Survival: A Thematic Guide to Canadian Literature
March 23, 2004, McClelland & Stewart
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Survival: a thematic guide to Canadian literature
1996, M & S
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Survival: A Thematic Guide to Canadian Literature
May 4, 1996, McClelland & Stewart
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Sabaibaru: gendai Kanada bungaku nyūmon
1995, Ochanomizu Shobō
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Survival: A Thematic Guide to Canadian Literature
June 1972, McClelland & Stewart
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Survival: A thematic guide to Canadian literature
1972, Anansi
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