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Volume 09, Number 1 (1984)

Small Town Ontario in Robertson Davies's Fifth Business: Mariposa Revisited?

  • R. D. MacDonald
Soumise
mai 22, 2008
Publié-e
1984-01-01

Résumé

Robertson Davies has lauded Stephen Leacock as a significant influence. However, Davies also represents Leacock after all as a failure. Davies's dark view of Leacock's fiction may be Davies's own skewed perspective, quite unrelated to what Leacock actually wrote. For Davies's fiction has some telling ambivalences about it -- it is difficult to know whether his Deptford is his own small town Ontario, or merely that of his character, Dunstan Ramsay's.