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study package: secondary (Batoche) and post-secondary classes - English Literature, Poetry, Drama, Women and Gender Courses, Canadian Studies, Post-Colonial Studies list of books used as university texts:
Clever As Paint: The Rossettis In
Love
and the Open University textbook &
theatre
anthology DETAILS... _______________________________________________________________
Clever As
Paint:
with original music by Elizabeth
Parker Women & Gender Studies, 19th century, England, art history, stage play, black comedy, satire, humour, drama, Pre-Raphaelite Brotherhood, artists, women's roles, Elizabeth Siddal, William Morris, Gabriel Rossetti, Arts & Crafts Movement, Malory, Swinburne, Burne Jones, Jane Morris, supernatural, séances, suicide, post-natal depression, love, grief, jealousy, adultery.
Suggested historian: Jan
Marsh
Compare: Tom Stoppard: The Invention
of Love
"Love among the artists - specifically
the Pre-Raphaelites -mercilessly dissected by Kim Morrissey, who debunked
Freud very efficiently and wittily in her play Dora a few years
back" _______________________________________________________________
Introduction by Lizbeth
Goodman
mailto:info@nickhernbooks.demon.co.uk Women & Gender Studies, 20th Century History, Freud, stage play, hysteria, black comedy, satire, drama, unreliable narrator, hysteria, psycho-analysis, "Dora Case Study," child abuse, transference, child-adult, seduction, sexuality, feminism, Lacan, Cixous.
Comparison text: Hélène
Cixous's Portrait of
Dora
compare: Henrik Ibsen: A Doll's
House
"an important addition to the Canadian
dramatic canon and to the body of contemporary playwriting by
women" _______________________________________________________________
Poems For Men
published by Coteau Books Women and Gender Studies, Womens Studies, 20th Century, North America, poetry, child abuse, incest, survivor, point-of-view, unreliable narrator, sexual politics, sexuality, child-birth, adolescence, Nabokov, historical re-examination.
Required reading: Vladamir Nabokov's
Lolita
Compare: Sarah Daniels:
Masterpieces
"brilliant and
disturbing" _______________________________________________________________
published by Coteau Books
with archival photographs and
maps Canadian Studies, Canadian History, Military History, Post-Colonial Studies, Multi-Cultural Studies, Secondary School, Grades 9-12, 19th century, poetry, history, politics, self-government, self-determination, leadership, Métis, Wood Cree, Plains Cree, French-Canadian, Saskatchewan, prairie, 1885, NorthWest Resistance, North West Territories, Louis Riel, Margeurite Riel, Gabriel Dumont. Suggested historians: Diane Payment, G.F. Stanley, George Woodcock.
compare: Margaret Atwood: Journals
of Susanna Moodie
"Using her skills as a researcher,
dramatist and poet, _______________________________________________________________
Comparative
Themes Stockists: Kim Morrissey's books can be ordered directly from Coteau Books and are usually in stock (or can be ordered) at The Saskatoon Book Store in Saskatoon, and Canada Books in Regina and through university bookstores. They are also available internationally through Amazon and Barnes & Noble. New and second-hand copies in Europe, Australia and North America can be found through Bookfinder.com.
Coteau Books _______________________________________________________________
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