13 research outputs found
Modern Canadian Women in Aritha van Herk's Novels
No full textBakalaura darba mērķis ir apskatīt mūsdienu Kanādas sieviešu dzīvesstāstus, sieviešu problēmas un izaicinājumus caur Arita van Herkas literāro darbu prizmu. Darbs sastāv no piecām nodaļām. Pirmā nodaļa dod ieskatu feminisma kustības attīstībā, pieminot tās rašanās iemeslus, apskatot feminisma veidus, kā arī norādot uz šodienas feminisma kustības uzdotajiem jautājumiem. Otrā nodaļa veltīta Kanādas sieviešu literatūrai, atzīmējot Kanādas rakstnieču identitāti un aplūkojot viņu īpašo stilu un domu. Trešā nodaļa veltīta Aritas van Herkas romāniem „Judite” un „Nemiers”. Ceturtā nodaļa piedāvā modernu Kanādas sieviešu attēlu, kā to apraksta Arita van Herka. Piektā nodaļa analizē galvenās problēmas Kanādas sieviešu dzīvē.The principal aim of Jelena Bogdanova’s the present Bachelor Paper is to explore the issues concerning modern Canadian women as delineated in Aritha van Herk’s novels. The paper consists of five chapters. The first chapter gives an insight into the development of feminist thought, where the author of the paper considers the preconditions for the rise of feminism, discusses the varieties of feminist thinking, as well as points out the challenging ideas put forward by today’s feminist movement. The second chapter focuses on the diversity and range of Canadian women’s literary art by discussing emerging identity of Canadian women writers as seen from a multicultural perspective, as well as considering the peculiarities of rhetoric and language in Canadian female writers’ experiences. The third chapter examines the peculiarities of the main themes in Aritha van Herk’s novels “Judith” and “Restlessness”. The fourth chapter focuses on the portrayal of modern Canadian female characters by Aritha van Herk. The final chapter analyzes the central problems in modern Canadian women’s lives as presented by Aritha van Herk
Mapping Becomes Controversial Manners in Aritha van Herk’s novel Restlessnes
Full text linkAritha van Herk is universally recognized as one of the most original and imaginative writers in Canada. She gained her first international literary prominence with the publication of Judith (1978) which received the Seal First Novel Award. The second novel The Tent Peg (1981) was not as widely successful as the previous one, but gained a lot of interest from scholars as well as van Herk’s readers. Her other works are No Fixed Address: An Amorous Journey (1986); Places far From Ellesmere (1990); Restlessness (1998); In Visible Ink (1991) and a Frozen Tongue (1992). She is a member of the Royal Society of Canada, and a professor who teaches Canadian Literature and Creative Writing in the Department of English at the University of Calgary. Aritha van Herk is the author of a number of highly acclaimed books. Her award-winning novels have been praised throughout North America and Europe. Her works have been published in eleven countries and nine languages. She has travelled extensively, giving lectures on her work
HEAR! HEaR! Voices of Canadian Women
Full text linkWhat difference can women’s voices make? This is the question posed by Shari Graydon, author, speaker, and founder of Informed Opinions, a national initiative aimed at amplifying women’s voices in Canadian public discourse. It is the question explored in HEAR! HEaR! Voices of Canadian Women as well. Contributors to this collection of papers were participants in a pair of conferences, “Discourse and Dynamics: Canadian Women as Public Intellectuals” and “Speaking Her Mind: Canadian Women and Public Presence,” that focussed on the multitudinous but often muffled voices of women in Canada and the intellectual import of their contributions. Speakers included writers, scientists, journalists, social workers, musicians, and academics—both established and emerging scholars. Together on panels and in paper presentations they confronted the under-representation of women’s voices in Canada from a wide variety of perspectives, backgrounds, professions, and pursuits.type of work: book**Please visit the accompanying website at https://speakinghermind.ca/ for more information.**
Introduction: Audibly Laudable: Voices of Canadian Women / Aritha van Herk & Christl Verduyn -- Refiguring the Public Intellectual: Lessons from Life Stories by Feminists in the Faculty Body / Wendy Robbins -- Who Gets to Be a Public Intellectual in Canada? / Iga Mergler & Neil McLaughlin -- Four Contemporary Canadian Women Intellectuals Negotiate the Challenges of Public Sphere Witnessing: Dionne Brand, Samantha Nutt, Sheila Watt-Cloutier, and Janice Williamson / Diana Brydon -- Stranger Sociability: Lisa Robertson as Counterpublic Intellectual / Heather Milne -- Is There a Canadian Uncle Tom’s Cabin? Canadian Women Writers and Social Change / Carole Gerson -- "Speaking Out": Gwethalyn Graham’s Non-Fiction / Galletly -- Idola Saint-Jean and Flora MacDonald Denison: Two Feminist Intellectuals in French and English Canada / Sarah Spear -- Speaking Your Mind, or Not: The Judicial Careers of Police Magistrates Emily Murphy and Alice Jane Jamieson, 1916-1932 / Mélanie Methot -- Speaking from South Africa: E. Maud Graham, Florence Randal, and the South African War / Bridgette Brown -- Margaret Gould (1900-1981): Social Worker, Social Critic, Public Intellectual / Marjorie Johnstone -- Public (Lending) Rights: Women’s Advocacy in The Writers’ Union of Canada / Erin Raml
Contextualizing narrative theory: reading the politics of formal innovation in contemporary women's fiction
Full text linkTo ignore the strategies and structures through which stories are told, this thesis contends, is to neglect a vital dimension of their politics. Narratology provides productive analytical tools to illuminate the complex and varied mechanics of narrative form, yet it also bears the traces of its structuralist origins. Its value is therefore contingent upon its continuing reformulation as an expansive, pluralist and contextualized critical discipline. Participating in this expansion, this
thesis evidences the pertinence and vitality of some narratological models and the limitations of others. It opens up alternative critical possibilities by drawing upon insights within contemporary critical theory, from poststructuralist philosophy to transcultural feminism to
sociolinguistics. Above all, my interventions proceed from close readings of innovative fiction by women writers hitherto all but unrepresented in, and therefore potentially subversive of, existing models: Nicole Brossard, Daphne Marlatt, Hiromi Goto, Ali Smith, Jackie Kay, Erna Brodber, Dionne Brand, Aritha van Herk.
The first chapter formulates an in-between critical space where feminist and postmodernist theories of narrative intersect. It re-examines metafiction through the lens of auto(bio)graphical practice and feminist poststructuralist theories of self, and introduces the notions of folds and
echoes to describe specific structural innovations. Chapter Two examines unconventional uses of second-person address and reconsiders existing narratological approaches in their light, focusing on the `push and pull of narrative' that the `you' form enacts. Chapter Three addresses the insufficient attention paid to multiply narrated novels, theorizing them as `narrative communities' and introducing terms to describe different internal relations between narrators, relations that can often be read as determinedly 'democratic'. The final chapter contests the
hegemony of temporal models of narrativity by formulating a 'spatial poetics' that accounts both for how spatial structures can be agents of narrative change and for the complexity of textual constructions of space, which frequently exceed static definitions of 'setting'.
Running throughout is a reconception of narrative as located not with the figure of the narrator, but in relations of intersubjectivity. The narratological criticism formulated here works towards a situated ethics of reading responsive to the politics of writing: it is engaged, relational, and ever in process
Review of \u3ci\u3eMavericks: An Incorrigible History of Alberta\u3c/i\u3e By Aritha van Herk
Full text linkAritha van Herk\u27s well-written and fast paced Mavericks provides an excellent introduction to Alberta. Served up without footnotes, Mavericks is not history, at least in the academic sense. What Aritha van Herk, a professor of English at the University of Calgary, provides instead is a fascinating personal view of Alberta\u27s past. It contains valuable insights into how many Albertans view themselves and describes particularly well many Albertans\u27 views about their relationship with the rest of Canada.
The first chapter, Aggravating, Awful, Awkward, Awesome Alberta, is all about the Albertan attitude. What propels the book, what glues it together, is an intense animosity toward what the author terms the Centre, undoubtedly Ontario, and most definitely Ottawa, the federal capital, and Toronto, Canada\u27s financial capital. At the outset she declares: It\u27s the Centre we hate. Throughout the book she decries the West\u27s position as colonial property, to be traded and exploited. Chronology determines the form of the next nine chapters which clearly review the geological background of the province; First Peoples; early European visitors; the arrival of the Mounties, ranchers, settlers, then politicians. Four final chapters review other topics: Alberta\u27s two largest cities, Calgary and Edmonton; the history of women; and Alberta\u27s twentieth-century culture and society. The author compares Albertans to mavericks, range calves without owners, individuals resistant to being caught, owned, herded, taxed, or identified. Yet in her political chapters she confesses her confusion as to why the tough, hard to intimidate Albertans often behave like a herd of lemmings, electing one party governments.
Van Herk, one of Alberta\u27s best novelists, regales the reader with well-crafted word pictures. Tightly she describes the political philosophy of the transplanted American, Henry Wise Wood, an important Alberta farm leader: He maintained that the world was divided into nasties and heroes; the nasties were competitive aristocrats who persistently tried to tread on the heroic co-operative democrats. Excellent job on Wise Wood, but her limited historical background occasionally trips her up. Her description of Dr. Walter Cheadle, an early English traveler, as one of an influx of romantic ninnies slights an acutely perceptive and reliable mid-nineteenth century observer. In England he later became one of the first supporters of the right of women to a medical career.
Putting down this wonderfully-written book, so full of bluster against the Centre, one profound question remains: Why did the author choose a firm in the bad place to publish it? Yes, Mavericks was brought out by Viking Penguin in Toronto
Questions of Trace: Presence, Politics, and Virtual Necromancy in Canadian Literary Archives
No full textQuestions of Trace: Presence, Politics, and Virtual Necromancy in Canadian Literary Archives excavates the documents, both archival and published, of politically-inclined works by Guy Vanderhaeghe, Katherine Govier, and Robert Kroetsch to examine depictions of progressivism and agrarian socialism in 20th-century western Canada. The fonds serve as case studies to theorise archival presence, absence, and trace. I conclude by unpacking the politics inherent to the archive and the practice of academic collection. Specifically, I examine how digitisation radicalises the archive’s spatiality and alters the relationship between author, text, reader, and archive to serve a necromantic function: it raises the author as an uncanny simulation, a revenant coming back to the text, the selection, the present. Drawing on the works of Jacques Derrida and others, I show how this evocation deconstructs the archive’s own nature, becoming a mystical enunciation that haunts the ecology of the digital environment. Poems and flash fictions introduce each of the thesis’ chapters, adopting the style and/or subject matter of the primary texts to reflect the themes that will be discussed and to engage with the discourses that will be employed in the critical writing that follows. My project employs a creative, conceptual, practice-based, and meta-cognitive approach to research that re-collects authors’ texts and characters, but also interpretations thereof, blurring the boundaries between genres of academic writing
Learning Style Inventory System: A Study on Improving Programming Language Subject
Full text linkLearning Style Inventory System is developed to computerize Learning Style Model
which indicates the learning style of each person through a set of question.
Concurrently, the system will analyze the result and give recommendation to fit one
learning style towards learning a programming subject. The output of the system will
help students be more responsible of their studies, thus doing well with all their
curricular activities as well as co-curricular activities. The main objective of this project
is to study various style of learning and come up with a good solution to improve
learning skill in order to increases UTP student's quality of examination result focusing
in programming subject. The development of the project consists of five main phases
which are Planning, Analysis, Design, Development and Implementation. Development
phase is divided into two main parts. The first part is system development while the
second part is system integration. For the data collection, a survey is conducted through
a distribution of questionnaire to get student's feedback, reviewing articles and research
done by some intellectual. With this, the author would like to concludethat this project
meets its objective and will spread the awareness of Learning Style Preferences among
UTP student and concurrently guide students to excel in programming subject
Textual Studies in Canada 9 Spring 1997
Full text linkCopublished by: Textual Studies in Canada.
Papers from a conference held in Edmonton, Oct. 13-15, 1995.
Includes bibliographical references and index.
"As a re-evaluation of regionalism in Canadian and American writing. A Sense of Place provides a comparative approach to the issue within a continental framework." "The contributors to this collection - including Frank Davey, Marjorie Pryse, and Jonathan Hart - look at a broad range of writers. They explore regionalism on both sides of the border in light of the central political, cultural, literary, and theoretical debates of our times."--BOOK JACKET
CONTENTS - Introduction: Regionalism Revisited / Herb Wyile, Christian Riegel and Karen Overbye -- Toward the Ends of Regionalism / Frank Davey -- Writing Out of the Gap: Regionalism, Resistance, and Relational Reading / Marjorie Pryse -- "Regionalist" Fiction and the Problem of Cultural Knowledge / David Martin -- Reassessing Prairie Realism / Alison Calder -- West of "Woman," Or, Where No Man Has Gone Before: Geofeminism in Aritha Van Herk / W. M. Verhoeven -- Is Newfoundland Inside that T. V.?: Regionalism, Postmodernism, and Wayne Johnston's Human Amusements / Jeanette Lynes -- Magic Environmentalism: Writing/Logging (in) British Columbia / Richard Pickard -- Afterword: Sense of Place: A Response to Regionalism / Jonathan Hart.Peer reviewedCanadian literatur
Textual Studies in Canada 9 Spring 1997
Full text linkCopublished by: Textual Studies in Canada.
Papers from a conference held in Edmonton, Oct. 13-15, 1995.
Includes bibliographical references and index.
"As a re-evaluation of regionalism in Canadian and American writing. A Sense of Place provides a comparative approach to the issue within a continental framework." "The contributors to this collection - including Frank Davey, Marjorie Pryse, and Jonathan Hart - look at a broad range of writers. They explore regionalism on both sides of the border in light of the central political, cultural, literary, and theoretical debates of our times."--BOOK JACKET
CONTENTS - Introduction: Regionalism Revisited / Herb Wyile, Christian Riegel and Karen Overbye -- Toward the Ends of Regionalism / Frank Davey -- Writing Out of the Gap: Regionalism, Resistance, and Relational Reading / Marjorie Pryse -- "Regionalist" Fiction and the Problem of Cultural Knowledge / David Martin -- Reassessing Prairie Realism / Alison Calder -- West of "Woman," Or, Where No Man Has Gone Before: Geofeminism in Aritha Van Herk / W. M. Verhoeven -- Is Newfoundland Inside that T. V.?: Regionalism, Postmodernism, and Wayne Johnston's Human Amusements / Jeanette Lynes -- Magic Environmentalism: Writing/Logging (in) British Columbia / Richard Pickard -- Afterword: Sense of Place: A Response to Regionalism / Jonathan Hart.Peer reviewedCanadian literatur
Travelogues of independence
No full textDie vorliegende Diplomarbeit befasst sich mit den Romanen No Fixed Address: An Amorous Journey (1986) und The Tent Peg (1981) der zeitgenössischen kanadischen Autorin Aritha van Herk. Die beiden Romane erzählen in einer Form, die in dieser Diplomarbeit als fiktive Reiseberichte bezeichnet werden, die Entwicklung der Protagonistinnen hin zu deren Unabhängigkeit. Die beiden Romane werden anhand literaturwissenschaftlicher und inhaltlicher Kriterien analysiert, um dadurch den Bezug zur Entwicklung der Protagonistinnen im Rahmen ihrer „Reisen in die Unabhängigkeit“ (Travelogues of Independence), die als fiktive Reiseberichte beschrieben werden, zu analysieren. Zusätzlich werden Fragen in Bezug auf kanadische (literarische) Identität, postmoderne Tendenzen in der kanadischen Literatur wie auch literarische „Vorfahren“ und Hintergründe zur Namensgebung der Charaktere beleuchtet. Die beiden zentralen Kapitel beschäftigen sich mit der Bedeutung von Kartographie und Landkarten für die Protagonistinnen der Romane und wie diese wiederum in Zusammenhang zu den physischen und psychologischen Landschaften ihrer Reisen stehen. Dabei werden auch feministische und postkoloniale Sichtweisen in Bezug auf das Thema kurz behandelt. Abschließend wird analysiert, wie die Reisen, die in diesen fiktiven Reiseberichten geschildert werden, Einfluss auf die Entwicklung hin zur Unabhängigkeit der Protagonistinnen haben.This thesis focuses on the novels No Fixed Address: An Amorous Journey (1986) and The Tent Peg (1981) of the contemporary Canadian author Aritha van Herk. The novels recount the story of two female protagonists in a literary form which is defined as travelogue of independence, describing therewith the development of the two female protagonists towards their ultimate independence. As a literary background for the ensuing analysis the question of Canadian (literary) identity as well as postmodern tendencies in Canadian literature are addressed. Subsequently, the novels are analyzed according to structure and content which offers multiple connections between the novels and travelogues as such. What is more, literary influences and the importance of the naming of characters respectively are also considered. The two central chapters deal with the importance of cartography and maps for the protagonists of the novels, which in turn provide a connection between the physical and psychological landscapes of the journeys described in the respective fictional travelogues and how these influence the protagonists’ development towards independence. To top off, considerations of the topic from a feminist and postcolonial viewpoint are also included
