Refereeing Identity : The Cultural Work of Canadian Hockey Novels [1 ed.] 9780773586987, 9780773539877

Hockey novels in Canada have emerged and thrived as a popular fiction genre, building on the mythology of Canadian hocke

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Refereeing Identity : The Cultural Work of Canadian Hockey Novels [1 ed.]
9780773586987, 9780773539877

What "national pastime" novels tell us about our country.

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The first book to focus exclusively on hockey in print, Canadian Hockey Literature is an accessible work that challenges

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Almost every Canadian can hum the original Hockey Night in Canada theme - even those who don't think of themselves

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The question of coherence in Goethe's novels, which, like Faust, compelled his attention throughout his creative li

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"This book offers an engaging insight into the European origins of the national values of Canadians and their futur

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Why does hockey have so many rules? Do we still need to have penalty boxes? Can’t we get rid of offside? And why is prac

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Outlines how a person’s understanding and expression of their relation to time and space affects their identity The co

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In Challenging Canada Gabriele Helms examines novels by Jeannette Armstrong, Joy Kogawa, Daphne Marlatt, Sky Lee, Aritha

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In this book Peter J. Bellis aims to show how Melville's career is shaped by his desire to define and represent the

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The concept of cultural identity has become for many a convenient explanation for most of the world's political pro

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