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Howard O'Hagan's Tay John: Making New World Myth Fee, Margery

Abstract

In making the point that no story is complete, O'Hagan undermines to varying degrees several dominant and interconnected Western ideologies: idealism, Christianity, patriarchy, class and capitalism. He also shows how a borrowed indigenous myth can be adapted to immigrant needs in a way that will distinguish Canadian novels from others.

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Title
Howard O'Hagan's Tay John: Making New World Myth
Creator
Fee, Margery
Publisher
Canadian Literature
Date Issued
1986
Description
In making the point that no story is complete, O'Hagan undermines to varying degrees several dominant and interconnected Western ideologies: idealism, Christianity, patriarchy, class and capitalism. He also shows how a borrowed indigenous myth can be adapted to immigrant needs in a way that will distinguish Canadian novels from others.
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415481 bytes
Subject
Howard O'Hagan; tall tales; unreliable narration; elegiac romance; myth
Genre
Article
Type
Text
File Format
application/pdf
Language
eng
Date Available
2009-08-04
Provider
Vancouver : University of British Columbia Library
Rights
Attribution-NonCommercial-NoDerivatives 4.0 International
DOI
10.14288/1.0074545
URI
http://hdl.handle.net/2429/11676
Affiliation
Arts, Faculty of; English, Department of
Citation
Margery Fee. "Howard O'Hagan's Tay John: Making New World Myth." Canadian Literature 110 (1986): 8-27.
Peer Review Status
Reviewed
Scholarly Level
Faculty
Copyright Holder
Margery Fee
Rights URI
http://creativecommons.org/licenses/by-nc-nd/4.0/
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