"The stillness is the time before the change" – celebrating the Canadian North and Northern environment in Elizabeth Hay's Late Nights on Air
A great deal of Elizabeth Hay's novel entitled Late Nights on Air takes place in Yellowknife, a town in the Northwest Territories of Canada, situated on the edge of the Arctic Circle. In 1974 Judge Thomas Berger came there to hold an inquiry concerning the environmental implications of the prop...
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ftmcsunivojs:oai:ojs.umcsd.home.net.pl:article/274 2023-05-15T15:00:20+02:00 "The stillness is the time before the change" – celebrating the Canadian North and Northern environment in Elizabeth Hay's Late Nights on Air Wójcik, Marta 2015-05-20 application/pdf https://journals.umcs.pl/lsmll/article/view/274 https://doi.org/10.17951/lsmll.2014.38.1.101 eng eng www.wydawnictwo.umcs.lublin.pl https://journals.umcs.pl/lsmll/article/view/274/273 https://journals.umcs.pl/lsmll/article/view/274 doi:10.17951/lsmll.2014.38.1.101 Prawa autorskie (c) 2015 Lublin Studies in Modern Languages and Literature http://creativecommons.org/licenses/by/4.0 CC-BY Lublin Studies in Modern Languages and Literature; Vol 38, No 1 (2014); 101 2450-4580 0137-4699 info:eu-repo/semantics/article info:eu-repo/semantics/publishedVersion 2015 ftmcsunivojs https://doi.org/10.17951/lsmll.2014.38.1.101 2020-03-17T13:05:52Z A great deal of Elizabeth Hay's novel entitled Late Nights on Air takes place in Yellowknife, a town in the Northwest Territories of Canada, situated on the edge of the Arctic Circle. In 1974 Judge Thomas Berger came there to hold an inquiry concerning the environmental implications of the proposed gas pipeline. Although Berger is not a protagonist of the story, his inquiry becomes one of its focal points. This article addresses the book's portrayal of the Canadian North and Northern environment. It focuses on the North as one of the protagonists, which becomes increasingly endangered by economic development. Article in Journal/Newspaper Arctic Northwest Territories Yellowknife University of Maria Curie-Skłodowska (UMCS): Scientific e-Journals Arctic Northwest Territories Yellowknife Canada Lublin Studies in Modern Languages and Literature 38 1 101 |
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A great deal of Elizabeth Hay's novel entitled Late Nights on Air takes place in Yellowknife, a town in the Northwest Territories of Canada, situated on the edge of the Arctic Circle. In 1974 Judge Thomas Berger came there to hold an inquiry concerning the environmental implications of the proposed gas pipeline. Although Berger is not a protagonist of the story, his inquiry becomes one of its focal points. This article addresses the book's portrayal of the Canadian North and Northern environment. It focuses on the North as one of the protagonists, which becomes increasingly endangered by economic development. |
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