Nature the Monster or Did Atwood Get it All Wrong: Representation of Nature in Alistair MacLeod´s Short Stories
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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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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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AJ - Literature, mass media, audio-visual activities
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V - Vyzkumna aktivita podporovana z jinych verejnych zdroju
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2013
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S - Úplné a pravdivé údaje o projektu nepodléhají ochraně podle zvláštních právních předpisů
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Silesian Studies in English: Proceedings of the 3rd International Conference of English and American Studies
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978-80-7248-887-2
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Number of pages
11
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166-176
Publisher name
Silesian University in Opava
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Dolní Životice
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Opava
Event date
Sep 13, 2012
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EUR - Evropská akce
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