Butterfly on a Rock

A Study of Themes and Images in Canadian Literature

Bibliographic Data

ID19918905
AuthorsDouglas Jones (0000-0002-2588-2834, corresponding author), D G Jones
Year1970
Publication date1970-12-31
Open AccessNo
TypeBOOK
VenueButterfly on a Rock (SOURCE_BOOK)
PublisherUniversity of Toronto Press (PUBLISHER • CA)
DOI10.3138/9781487571979
OpenAlexW646109319
ISBN9781487571979
Open LibraryOL35847725M
LanguageEN
Citations received7

In this volume Douglas Jones considers some of the themes and visages that have taken root in Canadian poetry and fiction during the past three generations. The persistent concern of widely different authors with these similar themes and images suggests that the individual writers share a common cultural predicament. It may also suggest that they participate in and help to articulate a larger imaginative world, a supreme fiction of the kind, that embodies the dream and nightmares of a people, shapes their imaginative vision, dreams and nightmares of a people, shapes their imaginative vision of the world, and defines, as it evolves, their cultural identity. This study makes it clear that the cultural predicament proposing different writers to take up the same themes is not defined simply by a literary tradition, but by the actual experience of many Canadians. This fresh and unconventional discussion, based on the author's wide knowledge of the original works, makes Canadian literature (primarily that written in English) intelligible in terms of its imaginative patters and inner concerns. The approach is cultural and psychological rather than pureply aesthetic or literary. The book is not primarily a survey, nor does it attempt to deal fully with any single author or work. Rather, by isolating certain themes and images it defines more clearly some of the features that recur in the mind, the mirror of our imaginative life

Art · Biology · Butterfly · Geography · Canadian Identity and History · Ecology

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