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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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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.
Subject
  • Tremblay, Michel
  • Walker, George F., Schriftsteller
  • Thompson, Judith, Schriftstellerin
  • Reaney, James
  • Cook, Michael, Schriftsteller
  • Pollock, Sharon
  • 1900-1999
  • Canadian drama > 20th century > History and criticism
  • Théâtre canadien > 20e siècle > Histoire et critique
  • Canadian drama
  • Drama
  • Kanada
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
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Columbia University Libraries