Book Details
Orange Code:34009
Paperback:411 pages
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1. The French Heritage: From Utopia to Eden2. Race, Place, and Identity in the Nineteenth-Century Short Story3. The Father’s Land Lost: Country versus City in the Early Novel4. New Horizons in the Late Nineteenth-Century Novel5. Impressionism and Nationalism in the Early Twentieth Century6. Space, Place, and a Race That Will Not Die7. From Solitude to Solidarity: La montagne secrète8. From Confinement to Constellation: Le premier jardin9. My Land(scape) is Winter’
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This unique study explores how Quebec's landscapes have been represented in both literature and visual art throughout the centuries, from the writing of early explorers such as Cartier and Champlain to work by prominent contemporary authors and artists from the province. William J. Berg traces recurrent images and themes within these creations through the most significant periods in the development of a Quebecois identity that was threatened initially by the wilderness and indigenous populations, and later by the dominance of British and American influences.
Focusing on the interplay between nature and culture in landscape representation, Literature and Painting in Quebec contends that both have reflected and fashioned the meaning of French-Canadian nationhood. As such, Literature and Painting in Quebec presents a new perspective to approach the notion of national identity, a quest that few groups have engaged in more persistently than the Quebecois.
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