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The rose garden : reading Marcel Proust / Kristjana Gunnars

By: Material type: TextTextPublisher: Red Deer, Alberta : Red Deer College Press, [1996]Description: 127 pagesContent type:
  • text
Media type:
  • unmediated
Carrier type:
  • volume
ISBN:
  • 0889951500
Subject(s): DDC classification:
  • 813.54
Summary: Combining the genres of fiction, memoir, the familiar essay and theoretical speculation, The Rose Garden forms an unusual synthesis. The protagonist and narrator is a Canadian literary scholar on study leave in Germany. While there, her involvement with her books on the one hand and a love relationship on the other creates a surprising blend of life and fiction. Her readings in classical European texts forefront the question of a woman reader's response. Her involvement with her lover makes her wonder why there is so little difference between life and literature on the level of experience. This is an uncommon book that defies traditional rules of style and genre and provokes the question of what meaning literary works actually have in our lives.
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Item type Current library Collection Call number Status Barcode
Book Book Cubao Branch Reference Section Women’s Collection WC 813.54 G976r 1996 (Browse shelf(Opens below)) Available 132557d
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WC 813 T193 2002 Tart noir WC 813.54 B182t 2004 The tiger claw : a novel WC 813.54 El41n 1985 Native tongue WC 813.54 G976r 1996 The rose garden : reading Marcel Proust WC 821.914 W951h 1999 Half a lifetime WC 823 D488c 1986 Cindie : a chronicle of the Canefields WC 823 D864b 1989 The bear from the north : tales of a New Zealand childhood

Includes bibliographical references (pages 124-127).

Combining the genres of fiction, memoir, the familiar essay and theoretical speculation, The Rose Garden forms an unusual synthesis. The protagonist and narrator is a Canadian literary scholar on study leave in Germany. While there, her involvement with her books on the one hand and a love relationship on the other creates a surprising blend of life and fiction. Her readings in classical European texts forefront the question of a woman reader's response. Her involvement with her lover makes her wonder why there is so little difference between life and literature on the level of experience. This is an uncommon book that defies traditional rules of style and genre and provokes the question of what meaning literary works actually have in our lives.

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