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PUBLICATIONS: Trees
in Emily Carr
Excerpt from: Hoogland, C. (2004). The Trees in Emily
Carr’s Forest:
The Book of Small as Aesthetic and Environmental Text.
Canadian Children’s Literature.
Summary: Emily Carr's fictionalized remembrances
of her childhood experiences in The Book of Small provide insight
into Carr's artistic interpretation of the Canadian, West Coast,
landscape. Her choice to convey her artistic (aesthetic) approach
to experience through a child character demonstrates her belief
that the child and the artist approach experience in similar ways.
The language in The Book of Small emulates a child’s (or
poet’s) experimentation of the links between perception
and language. Language is used not simply to describe, but to
evoke the action and the quality of the encounter. Carr's autobiographical
fiction has implications for contemporary attitudes toward childhood
and toward the environment, both of which play important roles
in children's literature. Renewed literary interest in this great
Canadian modernist artist is shaping the "Canadian aesthetic"
in ways that may influence how "setting" in Canadian
children's literature is constructed and received.
 
 
 
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