A collection of essays - some of them already classics, others appearing in print for the first time - The Lovely Treachery of Words is an important contribution to Canadian literature and culture. In it Robert Kroetsch concentrates on the age-old act of story-telling and its significance to individuals and society, but with a new twist. For many of the stories he examines here are of our postmodern era, when the hazards of story-telling are as noteworthy as its delights, and writers not only tell stories but interrogate ...
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A collection of essays - some of them already classics, others appearing in print for the first time - The Lovely Treachery of Words is an important contribution to Canadian literature and culture. In it Robert Kroetsch concentrates on the age-old act of story-telling and its significance to individuals and society, but with a new twist. For many of the stories he examines here are of our postmodern era, when the hazards of story-telling are as noteworthy as its delights, and writers not only tell stories but interrogate them with other stories. Kroetsch examines such issues as silence, eroticism, and violence in Canadian writers ranging from Susanna Moodie and T.C. Haliburton to Sinclair Ross and Ernest Buckler to Michael Ondaatje and Alice Munro. Moving from his own memories of an Alberta childhood to the epic criticism of Northrop Frye, he makes the writing of an essay a story-telling act that celebrates the teller, the listener, and the tale.
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