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edition:eBook
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category: Literary Criticism
published: Nov 2011
ISBN:9780774845090
publisher: UBC Press

Invocations

The Poetry and Prose of Gwendolyn MacEwen

by Jan Bartley

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Description

Invocations offers a new critical reading of Gwendolyn MacEwen's poetry and prose. It begins with a review of critical assessments of her work which reveals that, while fascinated with MacEwen's mythic sensibility, critics are concerned with the elusive, complex nature of her language and vision as rooted in sources often obscure to the reader. In this book, poet-critic Jan Bartley places MacEwen within the tradition of Canadian literature and examines her major sources -- notably the study of alchemy and Jungian philosophy -- to reveal the inner logic of her poetic explorations.

About the Author

Jan Bartley

Contributor Notes

Jan Bartley is an instructor in creative writing and in the humanities at York University.

Editorial Reviews

Directs the reader to a deeper participation in MacEwen's poetry and her prose.

— Books in Canada

An elegant synthesis of the criticism that has accumulated over the years.

— The University of Toronto Quarterly

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