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1	The Robert Kroetsch alphabet book : sketches of a thesis Fero, Alanna Carlene January 1991 (has links) Robert Kroetsch, a contemporary Canadian novelist, poet, and critic, can often be found investigating systems of ordering: he examines their contrasting characteristics of symmetry and arbitrariness; necessity and inanity; their potential to be both banal and surprising. My thesis on Robert Kroetsch's aesthetic comprises twenty-six chapters, each corresponding to a letter of the alphabet. Kroetsch's work has increasingly come to be affiliated with the "language poets"; his absorption with system invariably leads him back to the nature of the linguistic sign, and the possibilities and limitations of significance. For example, both Kroetsch's most recent novel, What the Crow Said, and "The Sad Phoenician," a long poem in which he reflects upon his identity as a writer, focus on the alphabet. In Crow, the nature of the alphabet as a paradoxically enabling and confining structure is explored thematically; in "Phoenician," the alphabetization of stanzas forms the enabling and confining structure of the text. Thus, the form of my thesis responds to those of Kroetsch; it is a form which becomes, finally, a thesis in itself. / Arts, Faculty of / Art History, Visual Art and Theory, Department of / Graduate Kroetsch, Robert, -- 1927- -- Aesthetics
2	A comparative post-colonial reading of Kristjana Gunnars' The prowler and Robert Kroetsch's What the crow said Boucher, Rémi, January 1900 (has links) (PDF) Thesis (M.A.)--Université de Sherbrooke, 2000. / Includes bibliographical references.
3	Animal writing : magical realism and the posthuman other. Schwalm, Tanja January 2009 (has links) Magical realist fiction is marked by a striking abundance of animals. Analysing magical realist novels from Australia and Canada, as well as exploring the influence of two seminal Latin American magical realist narratives, this thesis focuses on representations of animals and animality. Examining human-animal relationships in the postcolonial context reveals that magical realism embodies and represents an idea of feral animality that critically engages with an inherently imperialist and Cartesian humanism, and that, moreover, accounts for magical realism's elusiveness within systems of genre categorisation and labelling. It is this embodiment and presence of animal agency that animates magical realism and injects it with life and vibrancy. The magical realist writers discussed in this dissertation make use of animal practices inextricably intertwined with imperialism, such as pastoral farming, natural historical collections, the circus, the rodeo, the Wild West show, and the zoo, as well as alternative animal practices inherently incompatible with European ideologies, such as the Aboriginal Dreaming, Native North American animist beliefs, and subsistence hunting, as different ways of positioning themselves in relation to the Cartesian human subject. The circus is a particular influence on the form and style of many magical realist texts, whereby oxymoronically structured circensian spaces form the basis of the narratives‟ realities, and hierarchical imperial structures and hegemonic discourses that are portrayed as natural through Cartesian science and Linnaean taxonomies are revealed as deceptive illusions that perpetuate the self-interests of the powerful. magic realism magical realism animal human-animal studies postcolonial posthuman feral Australia Canada circus circensian zoo natural history maban reality trickster Gabriel Garcia Marquez Isabel Allende Peter Carey Richard Flanagan Mudrooroo Sam Watson Thomas King Tomson Highway Robert Kroetsch Jack Hodgins Yann Martel

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