Category Archives: Books
Tracing a Yellow Brick Road
To every ending a setup! In this literary essay, Dimitri discusses the conclusion, or rather its buildup, in Margaret Atwood’s Death by Landscape, originally published in the 1991 collection Wilderness Tip.
Defining the Definers
Defining the Canadian identity! Dimitri discusses three literary classics: Margaret Atwood’s Lady oracle, Margaret Laurence’s The Diviners, and Hugh MacLennan’s Two Solitudes.
The Cultivation of Cultivated Women
Identity construction through interpellation and resistance! In this literary essay, Dimitri discusses gender identity in Jamaica Kincaid’s freeform poem Girl, originally published in the 1978 collection At the Bottom River.
The Life and Opinions of Tristram Shandy, Gentleman
A race against time! It’s postmodernism two centuries before the movement existed, as Dimitri discusses author Laurence Sterne’s duel with death in his novel The Life and Opinions of Tristram Shandy, Gentleman.
The Life and Strange Surprising Adventures of Robinson Crusoe of York, Mariner
Realistic symbolism! Dimitri discusses the peculiar narrative in the world’s first English novel, allegedly written by Daniel Defoe, though we all know Robinson Crusoe was a real person, right?
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Fitter Happier and Ready for the Slaughter
Losing one’s humanity… In song! From a literary perspective, Dimitri discusses “Fitter Happier”, the seventh track on Radiohead’s OK Computer.