UBC Faculty Research and Publications

Ernest Buckler's The Mountain and the Valley and 'that dangerous supplement' Fee, Margery

Abstract

An analysis of Ernest Buckler's novel The Mountain and the Valley using Jacques Derrida's theoretical perspectives on the nature of writing as supplement. David Canaan is a writer who dreams of writing the perfect novel: his failed dream reveals that writing cannot capture perfection or presence.

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