Robertson Davies: A Mingling of Contrarieties

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Contents Introduction: Davies Tristram-gistus CAMILLE R. LA BOSSIERE 1 The Concert of His Life: Perspectives on the Masks of Robertson Davies MICHAEL PETERMAN 13 "A Hint of the Basic Brimstone": The Humour of Robertson Davies FAITH BALISCH 33 Undermining Comedy: Shadows of Determinism in the Salterton Novels DAVID CREELMAN 45 Magic in the Web: Robertson Davies and Shamanstvo TODD PETTIGREW 57 The Leaven of Wine and Spirits in the Fiction of Robertson Davies K.P. STICK 67 Metadrama and Melodrama: Postmodern Elements in the Plays of Robertson Davies LOISSHERLOW 81 "Where There's a Will, There Are Always Two Ways": Doublingin World of Wonders MARK SILVERBERG 99 Authentic Forgeries: Hermeneutics, Artifice, and Authenticityin Robertson Davies' What's Bred in theBone DAVID HALLETT 111 The Myth and Magic of a Textual Truth and/or a Metaphorical Reading of The Deptford Trilogy TATJANA TAKSEVA CHORNEY 125 VI "Converting the Clerisy": Quest/ioning, Contradictions, and Ethics in The Cornish Triptych ANDREA C. COLE 147 "Medical Consultation" forMurther and Walking Spirits and The Cunning Man RICK DAVIS, M.D., and PETER BRIGG 157 ...