Buried Astrolabe: Canadian Dramatic Imagination and Western Tradition 9780773568594

A critical introduction to contemporary Canadian playwriting.

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English Pages 488 [480] Year 2001

Buried Astrolabe: Canadian Dramatic Imagination and Western Tradition
9780773568594

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Craig S. Walker

Table of contents :
Contents
Preface
Acknowledgments
Prologue: Desperate Wilderness
1 Metamorphic Masques
2 Elegy, Allegory, and Eschatology
3 Beseiged Memory
4 Existential Mythopoeia
5 Postmodern City Comedy
6 Social Psychomachia
Notes
Bibliography
Index
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