Death and the Diary, or Tragedies in the Archive.
The privately held diary of Myrtle Gamble Knister, wife of modernist author Raymond Knister, stands as a touchstone document, used as evidence to substantiate her husband's drowning as accidental and to contradict Dorothy Livesay's claim that it was a suicide. Exploring the controversy around his de...
| Publicado en: | Journal of Canadian Studies Vol. 40; no. 2; pp. 42 - 60 |
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University of Toronto Press
Spring2006
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