Shaping an Image of Europe: Half Way Over Iceland (George Bowering: “Discoloured Metal”)
This paper deals with George Bowering’s short story “Discoloured Metal” from his 1994 collection of short prose The Rain Barrel. Analysis of the short story is focused on four main points: 1. a possible approach to shaped short prose, 2. cultural issues regarding Canadian appreciation of Europe, 3....
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ftdoajarticles:oai:doaj.org/article:3a94f96cffb44e6ba90f553639359762 2023-05-15T16:42:41+02:00 Shaping an Image of Europe: Half Way Over Iceland (George Bowering: “Discoloured Metal”) Nikola Tutek 2019-03-01T00:00:00Z https://doaj.org/article/3a94f96cffb44e6ba90f553639359762 EN eng The University of Akureyri https://nome.unak.is/wordpress/volume-14-no-1-2019/conference-paper-volume-14-no-1-2019/shaping-an-image-of-europe-half-way-over-iceland-george-bowering-discoloured-metal/ https://doaj.org/toc/1670-6242 1670-6242 https://doaj.org/article/3a94f96cffb44e6ba90f553639359762 Nordicum-Mediterraneum, Vol 14, Iss 1, p B0 (2019) Canada linguistics literature Social sciences (General) H1-99 Human ecology. Anthropogeography GF1-900 article 2019 ftdoajarticles 2022-12-31T16:22:58Z This paper deals with George Bowering’s short story “Discoloured Metal” from his 1994 collection of short prose The Rain Barrel. Analysis of the short story is focused on four main points: 1. a possible approach to shaped short prose, 2. cultural issues regarding Canadian appreciation of Europe, 3. the position of Iceland as a ‘place in between’, and 4. the interrelations of notions and depictions of Canada-Iceland-Europe in a multimodal shaped short prose. In the end of the paper there are possible conclusions on how Iceland as a neutral territory, a place to refill (not just kerosene), functions in Bowering’s short story (literary approach), and how does that reflect the perception of Iceland and Europe in Canada (cultural studies). Article in Journal/Newspaper Iceland Directory of Open Access Journals: DOAJ Articles Canada |
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This paper deals with George Bowering’s short story “Discoloured Metal” from his 1994 collection of short prose The Rain Barrel. Analysis of the short story is focused on four main points: 1. a possible approach to shaped short prose, 2. cultural issues regarding Canadian appreciation of Europe, 3. the position of Iceland as a ‘place in between’, and 4. the interrelations of notions and depictions of Canada-Iceland-Europe in a multimodal shaped short prose. In the end of the paper there are possible conclusions on how Iceland as a neutral territory, a place to refill (not just kerosene), functions in Bowering’s short story (literary approach), and how does that reflect the perception of Iceland and Europe in Canada (cultural studies). |
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Shaping an Image of Europe: Half Way Over Iceland (George Bowering: “Discoloured Metal”) |
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