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Not Needing All the Words : Michael Ondaatje's Literature of Silence
ISBN: 9780773560062
Platform/Publisher: Ebook Central / McGill-Queen''s University Press
Digital rights: Users: Unlimited; Printing: Limited; Download: 7 Days at a Time
Subjects: Literature;

Reading selected texts by Michael Ondaatje, including the novels In the Skin of a Lion and The English Patient and the poem "Birch Bark," Annick Hillger demonstrates how his writing both answers and challenges attempts to delineate the idea of a Canadian national self. She sets Ondaatje's work within the context of theoretical and philosophical ideas, developing the notion of a "literature of silence" concerned with finding a ground for self beyond the realm of language.

Annick Hillger has a doctorate in English literature from the University of Freiburg (Germany) and is a script-writer and editor for ZDF, German national television, in Mainz.Annick Hillger has a doctorate in English literature from the University of Freiburg (Germany) and is a script-writer and editor for ZDF, German national television, in Mainz.