Williams, David, 1945-

Imagined nations reflections on media in Canadian fiction / [electronic resource] : David Williams. - Montreal ; Ithaca : McGill-Queen's University Press, c2003. - xv, 278 p.

Includes bibliographical references (p. [261]-268) and index.

Fictions of the nation -- Novel and nation -- The mode of communication -- Orality and print : from clan to nation in No great mischief -- Doubling and irony : print nationalists vs. radio confederates in The colony of unrequited dreams -- Writing and revolution : the prisoner of print in Prochain épisode -- The shock of film and the transformation of place : a case in point in The butterfly plague -- Film-nations vs. print-nations : the politics of metonymy in The Englishman's boy -- Film and print versions of The English patient : Wuthering Heights in the global village -- Boundary breakdowns : portents of the digital revolution in The English patient -- Border wars : doing battle with the transnationals in Neuromancer.


Electronic reproduction. Ann Arbor, MI : ProQuest, 2015. Available via World Wide Web. Access may be limited to ProQuest affiliated libraries.








Canadian fiction--History and criticism.--20th century
Mass media in literature.
Politics and literature--History--Canada--20th century.
National characteristics, Canadian, in literature.
Roman canadien--Histoire et critique.--20e siècle
Médias dans la littérature.


Electronic books.

PR9192.6.M38 / W55 2003

813/.5409355