Jul 17, 2022
In which, using James De Mille's A Strange Manuscript Found in a Copper Cylinder (1888), we talk about utopianism and postmodernism as it relates to Canada and its culture, past and present! It's a wild episode that goes everywhere, but we love it.
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Sources & Further Reading:
- De Mille, James. A Strange Manuscript Found in a Copper Cylinder, Harper & Brothers, 1888. https://play.google.com/books/reader?id=ZG0mAAAAMAAJ&pg=GBS.PP1.w.1.0.0&hl=en
- Parks, M. G. “Strange to Strangers Only,” Canadian Literature 70, 1976, pp. 61–78. https://canlit.ca/canlitmedia/canlit.ca/pdfs/articles/canlit70-Strange(Parks).pdf
- Woodcock, George. “An Absence of Utopias.” Editorial. Canadian Literature 42, 1969, pp. 3–5. https://canlit.ca/canlitmedia/canlit.ca/pdfs/articles/canlit42-Editorial(Woodcock).pdf
- Lamont-Stewart, Linda. “Rescued by Postmodernism: The Escalating Value of James De Mille’s A Strange Manuscript Found in a Copper Cylinder,” Canadian Literature 145, 1995, pp. 21–36. https://canlit.ca/canlitmedia/canlit.ca/pdfs/articles/canlit145-Rescued(Stewart).pdf
- Milnes, Stephen. “Colonialist Discourse, Lord Featherstone’s Yawn and the Significance of the Denouement in A Strange Manuscript Found in a Copper Cylinder,” Canadian Literature 145, 1995, pp. 86–104. https://canlit.ca/canlitmedia/canlit.ca/pdfs/articles/canlit145-Colonialist(Milnes).pdf
- Multineddu, Flavio. “A Tendentious Game with an Uncanny Riddle: A Strange Manuscript Found in a Copper Cylinder.” Canadian Literature 145, 1995, pp. 62–81. https://canlit.ca/canlitmedia/canlit.ca/pdfs/articles/canlit145-Tendentious(Multineddu).pdf