The Arbutus/Madrone Files: Reading the Pacific NorthwestThis lively and perceptive look at the literature of the U.S. and Canadian Pacific Northwest explores the dynamics of the cross-border region using resonant quotations, poetry, song lyrics, and art to demonstrate and enhance Laurie Ricou's critical readings and ideas. |
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Page 94
... tell stories about people telling stories . His favourite , slightly jaundiced , clandestinely eager version of the oral folk tradition is gos- sip , a form he is happy to associate closely with the writing of fiction : Storytelling and ...
... tell stories about people telling stories . His favourite , slightly jaundiced , clandestinely eager version of the oral folk tradition is gos- sip , a form he is happy to associate closely with the writing of fiction : Storytelling and ...
Page 95
... telling tales about your neighbour , but in a way that isn't exposing him so much as revealing him or explor- ing the mystery that's in him . ( Morash 16 ) Rusty Macken tells his story with enough comma splices to signal the allure of ...
... telling tales about your neighbour , but in a way that isn't exposing him so much as revealing him or explor- ing the mystery that's in him . ( Morash 16 ) Rusty Macken tells his story with enough comma splices to signal the allure of ...
Page 127
... tells of a man who has lost his forearm in an accident and is reduced to telling endless stories about the incident " until he ran out of variations , and no one would listen to him , " and then to pounding pins into his deadened limb ...
... tells of a man who has lost his forearm in an accident and is reduced to telling endless stories about the incident " until he ran out of variations , and no one would listen to him , " and then to pounding pins into his deadened limb ...
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