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THOMAS B. FRIEDMAN
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B.A. (English)—British Columbia

M.A. (English)—British Columbia

Ph.D. (English)—Toronto

 

Assistant Professor

Department of English & Modern Languages

Thompson Rivers University

Kamloops, British Columbia  CANADA

Office:     AE 197

Phone:    250-371-5976

 

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Fall 2008/Winter 2009 Course Information 

 

 

 

 

Canadian Literature Information

Atwood Society's Margaret Atwood Site Updated: 20 June 2008  

Michael Ondaatje Information Updated: 12 February 1999 (Under Construction)

Michael Ondaatje Bibliography Updated: 1 March 1999
(Under Construction)

 


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Research Interests

 

 

I have been teaching literature and composition at the University College of the Cariboo / Thompson Rivers University since 1993.

My area of specialization is 19th, 20th and 21st Century Canadian poetry and fiction.

I am married to Dr. Cynthia M. Friedman, an Assistant Professor in the Department of Biological Sciences at Thompson Rivers University.

Please visit her website at faculty.tru.ca/cross.

 


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Research

My current research interests:

  • Geography and national identity as expressed in Canadian literary works
  • Authenticity and the status of fictional worlds
  • Historical representation in Canadian literature
  • The myth of United Empire Loyalism and William Kirby's The Golden Dog
  • The trickster in Canadian literature
  • 19th Century occasional poetry and its relation to the Canadian canon
  • Canadian Art
  • Margaret Atwood and Charles Pachter’s livres d’artiste.
  • Michael Ondaatje
  • Robert Kroetsch
  • Timothy Findley—particularly his 1999 novel Pilgrim

 

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