NEITHER HERE NOR THERE Christopher Bolander

From the beginning, Montreal has played a significant role in French writing of North America. While it is relatively easy to find novels to support the idea of Montreal as the center of the French Canadian universe, a more interesting challenge has been to examine the ways in which writers avoid the city, sometimes even effacing a character’s, and perhaps their own, montrealite in the process. In this book I examine the various roles of Montreal — agent, setting, allegory, theme, character, trope — in a wide range of novels and short stories. I reveal how Montreal’s topography serves to offset the notion of a uniform citizenry while simultaneously reinforcing class differences. I also reject the traditional rural/urban rivalry by examining texts that draw attention to a failed, romanticized view of rurality, yet highlight the fact that Montreal’s urban egocentrism can be considered no less an idealized view of society. Perhaps the most valuable inquiry into the literature of... Это и многое другое вы найдете в книге NEITHER HERE NOR THERE (Christopher Bolander)