Acknowledgements
Introduction
Ⅰ. Regions and Regionalisms
Ⅱ. Region, Writing, Reading, and Criticism
Ⅲ. A Structural Sketch of the Research
Chapter One Regionalism.. Concept, History and Critical Directions
Ⅰ. Regionalism and Its Evolution
Ⅱ. The Problems with Regionalism: Politics and Canonicity
Ⅲ. Regionalism and Critical Interrogation
Ⅳ. Regionalism, Narcissism, and Heterogeneity
Ⅴ. A Criticism of Criticism: Regionalism and Thematic Criticism
1. Regionalism and the Evolution of Thematic Criticism
2. Critical Receptions of Thematic Criticism
3. Textual Thematics and Contextual Thematics
Chapter Two Writing the Prairie.- The Short Stories of Sinclair Ross
Ⅰ. Towards a New Conception of Landscape
Ⅱ. Landscape as Realist Text in Sinclair Ross's Short Fiction
Ⅲ. Prairie Landscape, Metaphor andⅤalue
Ⅳ. Sinclair Ross's Moral Landscape: Production and Alienation
1. Morality and the Symptoms of Alienation
2. The Image of the House and Alienation
Ⅴ. Sinclair Ross's Orchestration of Geography, Imagination, Morality and Reality
Chapter Three The Maritimes in Alistair MacLeod's Short Stories
Ⅰ. Maritime Geography and Landscape
Ⅱ. Weaving a Tapestry of Cape Breton Culture
Ⅲ. Belligerence to the Outsider: Occupation, Cultural Purity, and Biological Symbolism
1. Occupational Heredity and Belligerence to the Outsider
2. Cultural Purity and Belligerence to the Outsider
3. Biological Symbolism and Belligerence to the Outsider
Ⅳ. Writing Region from Memory: IndⅣiduals, Community and Temporality
Ⅴ. The Personal and the Local: Space, Place, Region, and Identity
1. Spatial Enclosure, Exile, and Identity
2. Spatiality and Identity in “The Boat”
3. Place, Spatiality, and SubjectⅣity in “Island”.
Conclusion
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