Exploring Canada: Exploits and Encounters: 36 (Études canadiennes – Canadian Studies) - Softcover

Softcover

ISBN 10: 2875743775 ISBN 13: 9782875743770

Publisher: Peter Lang, 2021

Synopsis

Exploring Canada: Exploits and Encounters is a collection of articles on a broad variety of Canadian topics and themes, from literature to language and linguistics, from social and political issues to art and aesthetics, philosophy, history and geography. Initiated by The Nordic Association for Canadian Studies (NACS), this volume has been put together by an international team of scholars who all work in the multidisciplinary field of Canadian Studies.

The book engages with the broad theme of exploration in both concrete and metaphorical terms. The writers recognise that Canadian society has emerged from complex processes of exploration and encounters between people and ideas. The volume looks beyond simply celebrating these processes, and asks how different peoples, regions and ideas in Canada have been shaped by centuries of exploits and encounters in terms of gaining visibility and representation in the political life, literature and social relations of a multi-ethnic society.

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About the Author

Gerd Bjørhovde has had a long career as Senior Lecturer and from 1991 Professor of English Literature at UiT the Arctic University of Norway. She has published several books and articles in English and Norwegian, including Å Canada – en reise i litteratur, kultur og natur (2017).

Janne Korkka is Senior Lecturer in English at the University of Turku, Finland. His research focuses on contemporary Canadian fiction, poetry and non-fiction in particular as they engage with Western and Arctic Canada. His publications include Ethical Encounters: Spaces and Selves in the Writings of Rudy Wiebe (2013).

Edition details

• Publisher: Peter Lang
• Publication date: 2021
• ISBN 10: 2875743775
• ISBN 13: 9782875743770
• Binding: Paperback
• Language: English
• Number of pages: 266
• Editor: Bjorhovde