Buchholtz (English, Nicolaus Copernicus U.) presents sixteen essays on the construction and interpretation of literary value. The essays are concerned with children’s literature, film, poetry,
multiculturalism and the cultural situatedness of knowledge about literature, the (de)construction of literary canons, and institutions instrumental in the creation of literary value:
criticism, awards, but also the Canadian government. Authors and topics considered include the travel-writing of one Lorenza Stevens Berbineau, a working-class woman writing in the 19th
Century; D.H. Lawrence’s reading of classic American Literature; W.B. Yeats and children’s literature; T.S. Eliot on impact in literature; Chinese, Japanese, First Nations and other ethnic
voices in Canadian children’s literature; the Disneyification of political experience in the film The Emperor’s New Groove; and more. Annotation ©2013 Book News, Inc., Portland, OR
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