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Nature the Monster or Did Atwood Get it All Wrong: Representation of Nature in Alistair MacLeod´s Short Stories

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  • Result code in IS VaVaI

    <a href="https://www.isvavai.cz/riv?ss=detail&h=RIV%2F70883521%3A28150%2F13%3A43869861" target="_blank" >RIV/70883521:28150/13:43869861 - isvavai.cz</a>

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Alternative languages

  • Result language

    angličtina

  • Original language name

    Nature the Monster or Did Atwood Get it All Wrong: Representation of Nature in Alistair MacLeod´s Short Stories

  • Original language description

    In 1970s, Margaret Atwood published a monograph Survival: A Thematic Guide to Canadian Literature (1972), in which she identified essential themes that appear in English-written Canadian fiction and depicted survival as a unifying symbol for Canadian culture. Survival, according to Atwood, is often bound to the portrayal of harsh Canadian nature in all its destructive force where a man´s most daring hope is to survive. However, even though Atwood generalized and claimed that the defined themes appear inmajority of Canadian fiction, there are authors whose portrayal of nature may be interpreted differently. This paper focuses on selected short stories by Alistair MacLeod, whose life and writing is bound with the region of Nova Scotia and who frequentlydepicts a canine character, representing the bond between man and nature. The aim of this paper is to analyse this bond and declare, whether MacLeod´s representation of nature corresponds with Atwood´s negative perception.

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  • Czech description

Classification

  • Type

    D - Article in proceedings

  • CEP classification

    AJ - Literature, mass media, audio-visual activities

  • OECD FORD branch

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  • Continuities

    V - Vyzkumna aktivita podporovana z jinych verejnych zdroju

Others

  • Publication year

    2013

  • Confidentiality

    S - Úplné a pravdivé údaje o projektu nepodléhají ochraně podle zvláštních právních předpisů

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  • Article name in the collection

    Silesian Studies in English: Proceedings of the 3rd International Conference of English and American Studies

  • ISBN

    978-80-7248-887-2

  • ISSN

  • e-ISSN

  • Number of pages

    11

  • Pages from-to

    166-176

  • Publisher name

    Silesian University in Opava

  • Place of publication

    Dolní Životice

  • Event location

    Opava

  • Event date

    Sep 13, 2012

  • Type of event by nationality

    EUR - Evropská akce

  • UT code for WoS article