Stephen Leacock: A ReappraisalDavid Staines University of Ottawa Press, 1. 1. 1986 - Počet stran: 184 This collection of essays explores the many dimensions of the writings of Stephen Leacock, the well-loved Canadian author of Sunshine Sketches of a Little Town. |
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Leacock and Understanding Canada | 17 |
Leacock and the Media | 23 |
The Historical Leacock | 33 |
An Owl Among the Parrots | 51 |
Imperial Cosmopolitanism or the Partly Solved Riddle of Leacocks MultiNational Persona | 59 |
Religion and Romance in Mariposa | 83 |
Sunshine Sketches of a Little Town and George Elliotts The Kissing Man | 97 |
PostStructuralism and Leacocks Achievement in Sunshine Sketches of a Little Town | 107 |
The Achievement of Stephen Leacock | 121 |
The Writer and His Writings | 133 |
Notes | 161 |
Contributors | 171 |
American by Association | 69 |
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