Robertson Davies: A Mingling of Contrarieties
- ISBN-10
- 0776605313
- ISBN-13
- 9780776605319
- Series
- Robertson Davies
- Category
- Literary Criticism
- Pages
- 178
- Language
- English
- Published
- 2001
- Publisher
- University of Ottawa Press
- Authors
- Camille R. La Bossière, Linda M. Morra
Description
This collective assessment of the achievement of Robertson Davies addresses the basic problems in reading his artfulness, as a moralist committed to the practice of doubling, disguise, irony and paradox, of dwelling in "gaps" or spaces "in between" The essays present new insights on a broad range of topics in Davies' oeuvre and was the first conference devoted to Davies' work since his death in 1995.
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