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" Robertson Davies : "
edited by Camille R. La Bossière and Linda M. Morra.
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BL
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585297
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b414516
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Robertson Davies : : a mingling of contrarieties /\ edited by Camille R. La Bossière and Linda M. Morra.
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| Publication Statement
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Ottawa :: University of Ottawa Press,, c2001.
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Reappraisals, Canadian writers
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vi, 178 p. ;; 23 cm.
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0776605313
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: 9780776605319
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Includes bibliographical references.
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| Contents
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Introduction: Davies Tristram-gistus / Camille R. La Bossière -- The concert of his life: perspectives on the masks of Robertson Davies / Michael Peterman -- "A hint of the basic brimstone": the humour of Robertson Davies / Faith Balisch -- Undermining comedy: shadows of determinism in the Salterton novels / David Creelman -- Magic in the web: Robertson Davies and Shamanstvo / Todd Pettigrew -- The leaven of wine and spirits in the fiction of Robertson Davies / K.P. Stich -- Metadrama and melodrama: postmodern elements in the plays of Robertson Davies / Lois Sherlow -- "Where there's a will, there are always two ways": doubling in World of wonders / Mark Silverberg -- Authentic forgeries: hermeneutics, artifice, and authenticity in Robertson Davies' What's bred in the bone / David Hallett -- The myth and magic of a textual truth and/or a metaphorical reading of The Deptford trilogy / Tatjana Takseva Chorney -- "Converting the clerisy": quest/ioning, contradictions, and ethics in The Cornish triptych / Andrea C. Cole -- "Medical consultation" for Murther and walking spirits and The cunning man / Rick Davis and Peter Brigg.
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"This collective assessment of the achievement of Robertson Davies addresses the basic problems in reading his artfulness, as a moralist committed to the practices of doubling, disguise, irony and paradox, and dwelling in "gaps" or spaces "in between." The essays present new insights on a broad range of topics of Davies' oeuvre and represent one of the first major discussions devoted to Davies' work since his death in 1995."--BOOK JACKET.
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Davies, Robertson,1913-1995-- Criticism and interpretation.
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La Bossière, Camille R.
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Morra, Linda M.
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