The Author: Claire Omhovère is a Professor of English at University Nancy 2 (France). After writing a Ph.D. on the novels of Robert Kroetsch, she has specialized in postcolonial studies with a particular interest in the perception of space and the representation of landscape in Canadian culture. She has published articles in European and Canadian journals and contributed book chapters on the writings of Alistair MacLeod, Suzette Mayr, Rudy Wiebe and Jane Urquhart.

Contents: The aesthetic foundations of Canadian landscape writing – The contribution of physical geography to the forging of an English-Canadian literature – The phenomenology of space and its relation with the cultural norms regulating the appreciation of landscape – Topophilia and the subjective construction of place in Canadian literature – Narrative configurations of the event of landscape. Inhaltsverzeichnis