“Metaphors of Interrelatedness in Lorna Crozier’s Small Beneath the Sky: A Prairie Memoir”
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2018
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De Gruyter
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This article focuses on metaphoric structures in Lorna Crozier’s Small Beneath
the Sky: A Prairie Memoir (2009). Crozier’s straightforward narrative of incidents
from her past is structured around a series of poetic vignettes describing originary
phenomena that have shaped her. The “first causes,” as she calls them
metaphorically, add up to the familiar mix of parameters of origin and belonging:
the intimate place/landscape, family, and discourse. My aim is to demonstrate
how Crozier’s metaphors contribute to the world of interrelatedness she
constructs in the memoir. In the process, Crozier continues to develop a broader
project of the revisioning of patriarchal mythologies (e. g., the Canadian myth of
the prairie West) from a female/feminist point of view.
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Research for this article was supported by the National Science Centre Poland under grant
PRO-2012/05/B/HS2/04004
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Lorna Crozier, literary symbolism, memoir, auto/biography
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An International Annual of Critical Aesthetics vol.18, 2018, pp. 79-94.