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Michael Ondaatje

Michael Ondaatje

Douglas Barbour

Provides in-depth analysis of the life, works, career, and critical importance of Michael Ondaatje.
Divisadero

Divisadero

Michael Ondaatje

This is a story of possession and loss, about the often discordant demands of family, love, and memory. Written in the sensuous prose for which Michael Ondaatje's fiction is celebrated, Divisadero is the work of a master story-teller.
Michael Ondaatje: Haptic Aesthetics and Micropolitical Writing

Michael Ondaatje: Haptic Aesthetics and Micropolitical Writing

Milena Marinkova

This is where Ondaatje's micropolitics, often misconstrued as ideologically suspect aestheticism, emerges: a praxis that intimates how one can write and read politically with a difference.
Michael Ondaatje:

Michael Ondaatje:

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In a survey that includes Ondaatje's fiction, poetry and films, Mundwiler proposes a pervasive tension in the writing between the filmic and the poetic, and an implicit critique of conventional concepts of history.
Michael Ondaatje: Express Yourself Beautifully

Michael Ondaatje: Express Yourself Beautifully

Ed Jewinski

This illustrated biography links Ondaatje's relationships with his family to the later mature works, such as Running in the Family and The English Patient (for which he won the Booker Prize).
Michael Ondaatje's The English Patient: A Reader's Guide

Michael Ondaatje's The English Patient: A Reader's Guide

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... Callar, by Sophy Dale Margaret Atwood's Alias Grace, by Gina Wisker Vikram Seth's A Suitable Boy, by Angela Atkins MICHAEL ONDAATJE'S The English Patient \ READER'S GUIDE JOHN BOLLAND CONTINUUM CONTEMPORARIES .
Ragas of Longing: The Poetry of Michael Ondaatje

Ragas of Longing: The Poetry of Michael Ondaatje

Sam Solecki

Solecki suggests that Ondaatje's poetry can be seen as constituting a relatively unified personal canon that has evolved with each book building on its predecessor while simultaneously preparing the groundwork for the following volume. ...
Ragas of Longing: The Poetry of Michael Ondaatje

Ragas of Longing: The Poetry of Michael Ondaatje

Sam Solecki

Solecki suggests that Ondaatje's poetry can be seen as constituting a relatively unified personal canon that has evolved with each book building on its predecessor while simultaneously preparing the groundwork for the following volume. ...
Human Rights Discourse in a Global Network: Books beyond Borders

Human Rights Discourse in a Global Network: Books beyond Borders

Lena Khor

She also analyzes the language of texts such as Michael Ondaatje's Anil's Ghost.
The English Patient

The English Patient

Michael Ondaatje

The final curtain is closing on the Second World War, and Hana, a nurse, stays behind in an abandoned Italian villa to tend to her only remaining patient.
Anil's Ghost

Anil's Ghost

Michael Ondaatje

Anil's Ghost transports us to Sri Lanka, a country steeped in centuries of tradition, now forced into the late twentieth century by the ravages of a bloody civil war.
The Cat's Table

The Cat's Table

Michael Ondaatje

At mealtimes he is seated at the lowly 'cat's table' - as far from the Captain's table as can be - with a ragtag group of adults and two other boys, Cassius and Ramadhin.
Handwriting

Handwriting

Michael Ondaatje

Here are sunless forests, cattle-bells, stilt-walkers 'with the movement of prehistoric birds'; a Buddha buried 'so roots/like fingers of a blind monk/spread for two hundred years over his face'; 'saffron and panic seed, lotus flowers, ...
Biopolitics and Memory in Postcolonial Literature and Culture

Biopolitics and Memory in Postcolonial Literature and Culture

Michael R. Griffiths

32 Aarthi Vadde discusses Anil's Ghost's expansion of the definition of archive to include “a variety of traces, documents, and artifacts” (268). While I concur with her understanding of Ondaatje's “archival method,” we part on the question of its  ...
Black Conservative Intellectuals in Modern America

Black Conservative Intellectuals in Modern America

Michael L. Ondaatje

Crosby and Sharon D. Herzberger, “The For further discussion, see FayeJ. ... Richard F. Tomasson, Faye J. Crosby, and Sharon D. Herz-berger (Lanham, Md.: Rowman and Littlefield Publishers, 2001): 60–62; Marylee C. Taylor, “Impact of ...
Coming Through Slaughter

Coming Through Slaughter

Michael Ondaatje

Based on the life of cornet player Buddy Bolden, one of the legendary jazz pioneers of turn-of-the-twentieth-century New Orleans, Coming Through Slaughter is an extraordinary recreation of a remarkable musical life and a tragic conclusion.
The Story of Land and Sea

The Story of Land and Sea

Katy Simpson Smith

A lyrical and spellbinding story of love, loss, and war from a standout new voice in fiction. Katy Simpson Smith has already been acclaimed as an ‘heir apparent to to Michael Ondaatje and Marilynne Robinson’
City of Words: Toronto Through Her Writers' Eyes

City of Words: Toronto Through Her Writers' Eyes

Sarah Elton

City of Words is a collection of excerpts about Toronto from writers such as Margaret Atwood, Michael Ondaatje, and Lawrence Hill, accompanied by stunning original photographs; together, these words and images reveal the vibrant, vital soul ...
De kleur van vrijheid

De kleur van vrijheid

Katy Simpson Smith

Anita Shreve Katy Simpson Smith geldt als een van de grootste Amerikaanse literaire talenten van dit moment, en ze wordt nu al vergeleken met Toni Morrison, Marilynne Robinson en Michael Ondaatje.
Comparative Cultural Studies and Michael Ondaatje''s Writing

Comparative Cultural Studies and Michael Ondaatje''s Writing

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Ed. Sam Solecki. Montréal: Vehicule, 1985. 150-55. Leclaire, Serge. " Unconscious Inscription: Another Memory." Psychoanalysis, Creativity, and Literature: A French- American Inquiry. Ed. Alan Roland. New York: Columbia UP , 1978. 75-84. Marks, Zita M. "Borromean Knot." A Compendium ofLacanian Terms. Ed. Huguette Glowinski, Zita Marks, and Sara Murphy. London: Free Association Books, 2001.38-41. Moretti, Franco. The Way of the World: The Bildungsroman in European ...
The Metaphor of Celebrity: Canadian Poetry and the Public, ...

The Metaphor of Celebrity: Canadian Poetry and the Public, ...

Joel Deshaye

Sam Solecki. Montreal: Véhicule, 1985. 185–210. Print. Scott, Andrew Murray. Alexander Trocchi: The Making of the Monster. Edinburgh: Polygon, 1991. Print. Sedgwick, Eve Kosofsky. Between Men: English Literature and Male Homosocial Desire. New York: Columbia UP, 1985. Print. Siemerling, Winfried. Discoveries of the Other: Alterity in the Work of Leonard Cohen, Hubert Aquin, Michael Ondaatje , and Nicole Brossard. Toronto: U of Toronto P, 1994. Print. Silverman, Kaja.
The Gustav Sonata

The Gustav Sonata

Rose Tremain

The Sunday Times Top Ten Bestseller Shortlisted for the Costa Novel Award Longlisted for the Baileys Women's Prize for Fiction Shortlisted for the Royal Society of Literature Ondaatje Prize What is the difference between friendship and love ...
Burdett's Hospitals and Charities: Being the Year Book of ...

Burdett's Hospitals and Charities: Being the Year Book of ...

Sir Henry C. Burdett

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"This Sweet Touch": Alienation and Physical Connection in ...

"This Sweet Touch": Alienation and Physical Connection in ...

Scott Alan Mitchell

The works studied - Ondaatje's Anil's Ghost and The English Patient, Shyam Selvadurai's Funny Boy, and Salman Rushdie's Shalimar the Clown and Midnight's Children - suggest that, despite the demise of colonialism, Western colonialist ...
College basketball's national championships: the complete ...

College basketball's national championships: the complete ...

Morgan G. Brenner

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Michael Owen: My Story

Michael Owen: My Story

Michael Owen

Around this time, the first of a lifetime of mentions of the footballer Michael Owen got aired in the media. 'Meet the Michael Owen who wants to play for Wales' was theheadline in Wales on Sunday. As a Liverpool fan,Iknew all about Michael ...
Michael Buble: The biography

Michael Buble: The biography

Juliet Peel

It was now up to Michael to convince Foster, once and for all, that he, Michael, was worth taking a bet on. And so, for a start, Michael relocated to Los Angeles: that's where Foster was, where the action was, where the money was, and where,  ...
Tales From A Mortician:

Tales From A Mortician:

Michael Gore

Michael Gore. Tales From a Mortician Twenty Twisted Stories of Horror By Michael Gore www.AuthorMikeInk.com Copyright 2012 Michael Gore & Michael Aloisi. All Rights.

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