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Coteau Books in the Schools: Batoche
by Kim Morrissey ISBN 0-919926-91
study package: secondary (Batoche) and post-secondary classes - English Literature, Poetry, Drama, Women and Gender Courses, Canadian Studies, Post-Colonial Studies
Kim Morrissey
list of books used as university texts:
Clever
As Paint: The Rossettis In Love
Dora:
A Case of Hysteria
Poems
For Men Who Dream of Lolita
Batoche
and the Open University textbook & theatre
anthology
Mythic
Women/ Real Women
Faber & Faber 2000
DETAILS...
Clever
As Paint:
The Rossettis in Love
with original
music by Elizabeth Parker
Introduction by Beth Chatten
published by Playwrights Canada Press
distributed in Europe by Nick Hern Books
ISBN: 0-88754-552-1
http://www.puc.ca
in North America: mailto:cdplays@interlog.com
in Europe: mailto:info@nickhernbooks.demon.co.uk
Women & Gender Studies, 19th century, England, art history, stage play, black comedy, satire, humour, drama, Pre-Raphaelite Brotherhood, artists, women's roles, Elizabeth Siddal, William Morris, Gabriel Rossetti, Arts & Crafts Movement, Malory, Swinburne, Burne Jones, Jane Morris, supernatural, séances, suicide, post-natal depression, love, grief, jealousy, adultery.
Suggested historian: Jan Marsh
Introduction
by Beth Chatten
Compare: Tom Stoppard: The
Invention of Love
Howard Brenton: Bloody Poetry
Caryl Churchill: Stanley
"Love among the
artists - specifically the Pre-Raphaelites -mercilessly dissected
by Kim Morrissey, who debunked Freud very efficiently and wittily
in her play Dora a few years back"
-- Robert Hanks, The
Independent.
Dora:
A Case of Hysteria
Introduction by
Lizbeth Goodman mailto:info@nickhernbooks.demon.co.uk Women & Gender Studies,
20th Century History, Freud, stage play, hysteria, black
comedy, satire, drama, unreliable narrator, hysteria,
psycho-analysis, "Dora Case Study," child abuse,
transference, child-adult, seduction, sexuality, feminism, Lacan,
Cixous. Comparison text: Hélène
Cixous's Portrait of Dora compare: Henrik Ibsen: A
Doll's House "an important
addition to the Canadian dramatic canon
and to the body of contemporary playwriting by women" Poems
For Men published by Coteau
Books Women and Gender Studies, Womens Studies, 20th
Century, North America, poetry,
child abuse, incest, survivor, point-of-view, unreliable narrator,
sexual politics, sexuality, child-birth, adolescence, Nabokov,
historical re-examination. Required reading: Vladamir
Nabokov's Lolita Compare: Sarah Daniels: Masterpieces
"brilliant and disturbing" published by Coteau Books with archival
photographs and maps Canadian Studies, Canadian History,
Military History, Post-Colonial Studies, Multi-Cultural Studies,
Secondary School, Grades 9-12, 19th century, poetry, history,
politics, self-government, self-determination, leadership, Métis,
Wood Cree, Plains Cree, French-Canadian, Saskatchewan, prairie,
1885, NorthWest Resistance, North West Territories, Louis Riel,
Margeurite Riel, Gabriel Dumont. Suggested historians:
Diane Payment, G.F. Stanley, George Woodcock. compare: Margaret Atwood: Journals
of Susanna Moodie "Using her skills
as a researcher, dramatist and poet, For more information about these and other works by Kim
Morrissey,
published by Nick Hern Books
ISBN: 1-85459-295-5
in North America: mailto:cdplays@interlog.com
Introduction
by Lizbeth Goodman
academic
article by Tobias Döring
Suggested reading : In Dora's Case (ed Charles Bernheimer
& Claire Kahane
Terry Johnson: Hysteria
Nicholas Wright: Mrs Klein
-- Rita Much, Canadian Theatre Review
Who Dream of Lolita
ISBN: 1-55050-029-5
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Introduction: Lizbeth Goodman
Paula Vogel: How I Learned to Drive
Jim Garrard: Cold Comfort
-- John Osborne, editor, bête
noir
ISBN: 0-919926-916
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Gwendolyn McEwen: The T.E. Lawrence Poems
Michael Ondaatje: Billy the Kid
Kim Morrissey brings to life the once silent pages of our history
with a clear and simple eloquence."
-- Lorna Crozier
visit http://members.aol.com/CanLit/Coteau/Morrissey.