dc.contributor.advisor |
MacKinnon, Kenneth, 1933- |
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dc.coverage.spatial |
Nova Scotia |
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dc.creator |
Kristiansen, Erik Randolf |
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dc.date.accessioned |
2011-05-09T12:32:46Z |
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dc.date.available |
2011-05-09T12:32:46Z |
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dc.date.issued |
1991 |
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dc.identifier.other |
PS8131 N68 K74 1991 |
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dc.identifier.uri |
http://library2.smu.ca/xmlui/handle/01/22802 |
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dc.description |
vi, 158 leaves ; 28 cm. |
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dc.description |
Includes abstract. |
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dc.description |
This thesis provides an analysis of Hugh MacLennan's Barometer Rising, Charles Bruce's The Channel Shore, and Ernest Buckler's The Mountain and the Valley and The Cruelest Month |
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dc.description |
Includes bibliographical references (leaves 151-158) |
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dc.description.abstract |
Hugh MacLennan's Barometer Rising, Charles Bruce's The Channel Shore, and Ernest Buckler's The Mountain and the Valley and The Cruelest Month are concerned with the transformation of pre-modern rural communities to a modernized countryside. My analysis of these novels will be based on an historically grounded interdisciplinary perspective which will clearly show the inadequacies of previous interpretations. Such issues as rural/urban polarities, an experience of a radical discontinuity with the past, a quest for some sense of continuity, the decline of small commodity production, the growth of the marketplace, the expansion of wage labour, changing gender roles for women, and the rapid commodification of so much of our reality are found throughout their works.
Hugh MacLennan, in Barometer Rising, favours capitalist development combined with a form of middle class individualism. Charles Bruce's The Channel Shore is pervaded by a sense of uncertainty, a deeply rooted ambiguity about modernity that is never finally resolved. Ernest Buckler, however, rejects modernity in all its guises. (Abstract shortened by UMI.) |
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dc.description.provenance |
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dc.language.iso |
en |
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dc.publisher |
Halifax, N.S. : Saint Mary's University |
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dc.subject.lcc |
PS8131.N68 |
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dc.subject.lcsh |
MacLennan, Hugh, 1907-1990. Barometer rising -- Criticism and interpretation |
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dc.subject.lcsh |
Bruce, Charles, 1906-. Channel Shore -- Criticism and interpretation |
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dc.subject.lcsh |
Buckler, Ernest. Mountain and the valley -- Criticism and interpretation |
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dc.subject.lcsh |
Buckler, Ernest. Cruelest month -- Criticism and interpretation |
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dc.subject.lcsh |
Canadian literature -- Nova Scotia -- Criticism and interpretation |
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dc.title |
Time, memory and transformation : representations of development in the Nova Scotian novel |
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dc.type |
Text |
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thesis.degree.name |
Master of Arts in Atlantic Canada Studies |
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thesis.degree.level |
Masters |
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thesis.degree.discipline |
Atlantic Canada Studies Program |
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thesis.degree.grantor |
Saint Mary's University (Halifax, N.S.) |
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