{"product_id":"representations-of-women-and-nature-in-canadian-womens-writing-von-corinna-thomen","title":"Representations of Women and Nature in Canadian Women's Writing","description":"\u003cp\u003eThesis (M.A.) from the year 2008 in the subject American Studies - Literature, grade: 1,3, Ernst Moritz Arndt University of Greifswald (Institut für Anglistik\/Amerikanistik), language: English, abstract: Canada has always been associated with its landscape, with a vast and inviolate\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003enature, including prairies, forests with innumerable lakes, idyllic mountain ranges\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eand the Arctic barrens in the far north. With an area of almost 10 million square\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003ekilometers, Canada is the second largest country in the world, but with only 31\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003emillion people living there and a population density of 3,2 inhabitants per square\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003ekilometer, it is also the less populated.1\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eThe theme of nature and wilderness has also been reflected throughout Canadian\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eliterary tradition. As Canadian author Aritha van Herk notes, \"[t]he impact of\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003elandscape on artist and artist on landscape is unavoidable\" (1992, 139). Adopting the\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003enorthern concepts of early explorers and settlers, most literature about the Canadian\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003ewilderness has been written by male authors. For a long time, the Canadian North\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eserved as background for historical romances and adventure stories. The response to\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003ethe landscape was often very negative, the wilderness was described as being hostile\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eand dangerous. Parallel to that image, the landscape was portrayed in female terms,\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eas being innocent, inviolate and beautiful ¿ the Canadian North appeared as a femme\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003efatale. Especially in its beginnings, Canadian literature was strongly influenced by its\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eAmerican and British predecessors and the early writers reinforced the myth of the\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eCanadian North. In the early twentieth century, the North was mainly a place of\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eretreat for the fictive heroes of the South who went from the city to the wilderness to\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003efind themselves. One of the most famous texts of this time is Frederick Philip\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eGrove's autobiography In Search of Myself (1946). His journey to the North became\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003ea synonym for the search of the own self.\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cdiv class=\"aw-variant-hidden-subtitle-div\" id=\"aw-variant-subtitle-9783640263691\"\u003e\u003ch3\u003e\u003c\/h3\u003e\u003c\/div\u003e","brand":"Libri","offers":[{"title":"Softcover - 9783640263691","offer_id":39440593584221,"sku":"9783640263691","price":42.95,"currency_code":"EUR","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0940\/0622\/files\/ff9a6847-ea63-463c-b25b-66c640e498e8.jpg?v=1777529940","url":"https:\/\/shop.autorenwelt.de\/products\/representations-of-women-and-nature-in-canadian-womens-writing-von-corinna-thomen","provider":"Autorenwelt Shop","version":"1.0","type":"link"}