Writing the Montreal Mountain: Below the Thresholds at which Visibility Begins

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Title
Writing the Montreal Mountain: Below the Thresholds at which Visibility Begins
Abstract
The place of Mount Royal mountain in the texts of such as Montreal writers as Gwethalyn Graham’s Earth and High Heaven (1944), Gabrielle Roy’s Bonheur d’occasion (1945), Hugh MacLennan’s Two Solitudes (1945), Roger Viau’s Au milieu, la montagne (1951),Yves Thériault’s Aaron (1954), MacLennan’s The Watch that Ends the Night (1958), Gérard Bessette’s La bagarre (1958), Leonard Cohen’s The Favourite Game (1963) and Gail Scott’s Heroine (1987). The author argues that in spite of their substantial differences, these works all stage — on the mountain — encounters between and within Montreal communities, and inquire into the relation of characters to urban social space.
Publication
Canadian Literature : A Quarterly of Criticism and Review
Volume
No. 192
Pages
45-66
Date
2007
Language
en
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Citation
Moyes, Lianne. “Writing the Montreal Mountain: Below the Thresholds at Which Visibility Begins.” Canadian Literature : A Quarterly of Criticism and Review No. 192 (2007): 45–66. https://canlit.ca/full-issue/?issue=192.
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