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The buried astrolabe : Canadian dramatic imagination and Western tradition
- Title
- The buried astrolabe : Canadian dramatic imagination and Western tradition / Craig Stewart Walker.
- Author
- Walker, Craig Stewart, 1960-
- Publication
- Montreal ; Ithaca : McGill-Queen's University Press, 2001.
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- Description
- ix, 467 pages; 24 cm
- Summary
- "The Buried Astrolabe shows that Canadian plays are increasingly being recognized as some of the most important on the international scene. Craig Walker devotes the main body of his critical introduction to readings of James Reaney, Michael Cook, Sharon Pollock, Michel Tremblay, George F. Walker, and Judith Thompson. His interpretations shed light on poetics, mythological underpinnings, and the cultural significance of characteristic tropes."--Jacket.
- "The Buried Astrolabe shows that Canadian plays are increasingly being recognized as some of the most important on the international scene. Craig Walker devotes the main body of his critical introduction to readings of James Reaney, Michael Cook, Sharon Pollock, Michel Tremblay, George F. Walker, and Judith Thompson. His interpretations shed light on poetics, mythological underpinnings, and the cultural significance of characteristic tropes."--BOOK JACKET.
- Subjects
- Canadian drama
- Théâtre canadien > 20e siècle > Histoire et critique
- Thompson, Judith Schriftstellerin
- Criticism, interpretation, etc
- Tremblay, Michel
- 1900-1999
- Walker, George F Schriftsteller
- Kanada
- Canadian drama > 20th century > History and criticism
- Reaney, James
- Drama
- Pollock, Sharon
- Cook, Michael Schriftsteller
- Genre/Form
- Criticism, interpretation, etc.
- Bibliography (note)
- Includes bibliographical references (pages 433-454) and index.
- Contents
- James Reaney: metamorphic masques -- Michael Cook: elegy, allegory, and eschatology -- Sharon Pollock: besieged memory -- Michel Tremblay: existential mythopoeia -- George F. Walker: postmodern city comedy -- Judith Thompson: social psychomachia.
- ISBN
- 0773520740
- 9780773520745
- 0773520759
- 9780773520752
- LCCN
- 2002391781
- OCLC
- ocm50028754
- 50028754
- SCSB-4134972
- Owning Institutions
- Columbia University Libraries