Modern Realism In English Canadian Fiction

Author : Colin Hill
Publisher : University of Toronto Press
Page : 297 pages
File Size : 53,7 Mb
Release : 2012-01-01
Category : Literary Criticism
ISBN : 9781442640566

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Modern Realism in English-Canadian Fiction by Colin Hill Pdf

Much of the scholarship on twentieth-century Canadian literature has argued that English-Canadian fiction was plagued by backwardness and an inability to engage fully with the movement of modernism that was so prevalent in British and American fiction and poetry. Modern Realism in English-Canadian Fiction re-evaluates Canadian literary culture to posit that it has been misunderstood because it is a distinct genre, a regional form of the larger international modernist movement. Examining literary magazines, manifestos, archival documents, and major writers such as Frederick Philip Grove, Morley Callaghan, and Raymond Knister, Colin Hill identifies a 'modern realism' that crosses regions as well as urban and rural divides. A bold reading of the modern-realist aesthetic and an articulate challenge to several enduring and limiting myths about Canadian writing, Modern Realism in English- Canadian Fiction will stimulate important debate in literary circles everywhere.

Author : Colin Hill
Publisher : University of Toronto Press
Page : 297 pages
File Size : 45,7 Mb
Release : 2012-05-07
Category : Literary Criticism
ISBN : 9781442664913

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Modern Realism in English-Canadian Fiction by Colin Hill Pdf

Much of the scholarship on twentieth-century Canadian literature has argued that English-Canadian fiction was plagued by backwardness and an inability to engage fully with the movement of modernism that was so prevalent in British and American fiction and poetry. Modern Realism in English-Canadian Fiction re-evaluates Canadian literary culture to posit that it has been misunderstood because it is a distinct genre, a regional form of the larger international modernist movement. Examining literary magazines, manifestos, archival documents, and major writers such as Frederick Philip Grove, Morley Callaghan, and Raymond Knister, Colin Hill identifies a 'modern realism' that crosses regions as well as urban and rural divides. A bold reading of the modern-realist aesthetic and an articulate challenge to several enduring and limiting myths about Canadian writing, Modern Realism in English- Canadian Fiction will stimulate important debate in literary circles everywhere.

Author : John Z. Ming Chen,Yuhua Ji
Publisher : Springer
Page : 296 pages
File Size : 53,7 Mb
Release : 2015-06-09
Category : Social Science
ISBN : 9783662463505

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Marxism and 20th-Century English-Canadian Novels by John Z. Ming Chen,Yuhua Ji Pdf

This monograph is the first academic work to apply a neo-Marxist approach to 20th-century Canadian social realist novels, pursuing a refreshingly (neo-)Marxist approach to such issues as Bakhtinian notions of the novelistic form and dialogism as applied to Canadian socio-political novels influenced by various socialisms, socialist-feminist concerns, economic and sexual politics, and the genre of social realism. In so doing, it demonstrates that Marxist socialism is as relevant today as it was in the 1930s, just as social realist novels continue to thrive as a critique of capitalism. Readers will find valuable insights into the social significance, formal innovations, moral sensitivity, aesthetic enrichment, and ideological complexity of Canadian social realist novels.

Author : Glenn Willmott
Publisher : McGill-Queen's Press - MQUP
Page : 248 pages
File Size : 50,5 Mb
Release : 2002-08-29
Category : Literary Criticism
ISBN : 9780773570344

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Unreal Country by Glenn Willmott Pdf

Modernism is one of the great manifold movements in literature and the arts. Responding with magnificent independence to inherited values and tastes, and with radical novelty to the future, varieties of modernism anxiously express both the ends of the Enlightenment and the beginnings of Postmodernism, and thus the feeling of a crisis that continues to haunt contemporary life. Modernity in Canada, stretching from the turn of the century to the 1950s, is a period marked by unprecedented urban and industrial growth, by urban and rural immigration from around the world, and by unique changes in power between regions, classes, races, and sexes. At the same time it is a period profoundly aware of the colonial past and its persistence, for good or ill, in the fragile economy and volatile culture of a new nation.

Author : Reingard M. Nischik
Publisher : Springer
Page : 273 pages
File Size : 46,8 Mb
Release : 2016-04-29
Category : Literary Criticism
ISBN : 9781137559654

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Comparative North American Studies by Reingard M. Nischik Pdf

Merging selected approaches to Comparative North American Studies with detailed textual analyses, this book studies works of writers as diverse as Ernest Hemingway, Joyce Carol Oates, Tim O'Brien, and Margaret Atwood. Topics include comparative approaches to the North American modernist short story, narratives of the Canada-US border, and North American reviews of Atwood's novels.

Author : David Staines
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 323 pages
File Size : 41,6 Mb
Release : 2021-08-05
Category : Literary Criticism
ISBN : 9781108418089

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A History of Canadian Fiction by David Staines Pdf

The first one-volume history of Canadian fiction covering its growth and development from earliest times to the present day. Recounting the struggles and the glories of this burgeoning area of investigation, it explains Canada's literary growth alongside its remarkable history.

Author : Tim Lanzendörfer
Publisher : Routledge
Page : 615 pages
File Size : 50,7 Mb
Release : 2021-12-30
Category : Literary Criticism
ISBN : 9781000513134

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The Routledge Companion to the British and North American Literary Magazine by Tim Lanzendörfer Pdf

Encompassing a broad definition of the topic, this Companion provides a survey of the literary magazine from its earliest days to the contemporary moment. It offers a comprehensive theorization of the literary magazine in the wake of developments in periodical studies in the last decade, bringing together a wide variety of approaches and concerns. With its distinctive chronological and geographical scope, this volume sheds new light on the possibilities and difficulties of the concept of the literary magazine, balancing a comprehensive overview of key themes and examples with greater attention to new approaches to magazine research. Divided into three main sections, this book offers: • Theory—it investigates definitions and limits of what a literary magazine is and what it does. • History and regionalism—a very broad historical and geographic sweep draws new connections and offers expanded definitions. • Case studies—these range from key modernist little magazines and the popular middlebrow to pulp fiction, comics, and digital ventures, widening the ambit of the literary magazine. The Routledge Companion to the British and North American Literary Magazine offers new and unforeseen cross-connections across the long history of literary periodicals, highlighting the ways in which it allows us to trace such ideas as the “literary” as well as notions of what magazines do in a culture.

Author : Robert T. Tally Jr.
Publisher : Springer
Page : 236 pages
File Size : 43,7 Mb
Release : 2016-04-30
Category : Literary Criticism
ISBN : 9781137449375

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Literary Cartographies by Robert T. Tally Jr. Pdf

Exploring narrative mapping in a wide range of literary works, ranging from medieval romance to postmodern science fiction, this volume argues for the significance of spatiality in comparative literary studies. Contributors demonstrate how a variety of narratives represent the changing social spaces of their world.

Author : Herb Wyile
Publisher : McGill-Queen's Press - MQUP
Page : 348 pages
File Size : 41,8 Mb
Release : 2002
Category : Literary Criticism
ISBN : 0773523154

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Speculative Fictions by Herb Wyile Pdf

An exploration of the proliferation of historical novels in English-Canadian literature over the last thirty years.

Author : Cynthia Conchita Sugars
Publisher : Oxford University Press
Page : 993 pages
File Size : 54,9 Mb
Release : 2016
Category : History
ISBN : 9780199941865

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The Oxford Handbook of Canadian Literature by Cynthia Conchita Sugars Pdf

The Oxford Handbook of Canadian Literature provides a broad-ranging introduction to some of the key critical fields, genres, and periods in Canadian literary studies. The essays in this volume, written by prominent theorists in the field, reflect the plurality of critical perspectives, regional and historical specializations, and theoretical positions that constitute the field of Canadian literary criticism across a range of genres and historical periods. The volume provides a dynamic introduction to current areas of critical interest, including (1) attention to the links between the literary and the public sphere, encompassing such topics as neoliberalism, trauma and memory, citizenship, material culture, literary prizes, disability studies, literature and history, digital cultures, globalization studies, and environmentalism or ecocriticism; (2) interest in Indigenous literatures and settler-Indigenous relations; (3) attention to multiple diasporic and postcolonial contexts within Canada; (4) interest in the institutionalization of Canadian literature as a discipline; (5) a turn towards book history and literary history, with a renewed interest in early Canadian literature; (6) a growing interest in articulating the affective character of the literary - including an interest in affect theory, mourning, melancholy, haunting, memory, and autobiography. The book represents a diverse array of interests -- from the revival of early Canadian writing, to the continued interest in Indigenous, regional, and diasporic traditions, to more recent discussions of globalization, market forces, and neoliberalism. It includes a distinct section dedicated to Indigenous literatures and traditions, as well as a section that reflects on the discipline of Canadian literature as a whole.

Author : Hugh Garner
Publisher : University of Ottawa Press
Page : 288 pages
File Size : 49,6 Mb
Release : 2015-05-21
Category : Fiction
ISBN : 9780776622620

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Hugh Garner's Best Stories by Hugh Garner Pdf

Hugh Garner’s Best Stories received the Governor General’s Literary Award for English-language fiction in 1963. The collection consists of twenty-four stories composed between the late 1930s and the early 1960s and reflects the immense flux of the mid-century, from the Great Depression to the Spanish Civil War, World War II, the Civil Rights movement, and second-wave feminism. Garner takes on issues ranging from anglophone–francophone conflict in Canada to racism in the American South, from the disenfranchisement of First Nations people to the mistreatment of the mentally disabled. Best Stories is not only notable for the devastating precision of its prose, but also for its contribution to the Spanish Civil War literary canon. This new edition brings short fiction by Garner into conversation with the wider canon of Canadian and transnational leftist and proletarian literature.

Author : W. J. Keith
Publisher : The Porcupine's Quill
Page : 320 pages
File Size : 52,9 Mb
Release : 1991
Category : Literary Criticism
ISBN : 0889841217

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An Independent Stance by W. J. Keith Pdf

Part One of this strongly worded, informed, and wide-ranging collection examines key issues for the future of Canadian criticism. Part Two offers new readings of important works by Grove, Wilson, MacLennan, Davies, Laurence, Hood, Wiebe, Hodgins, and Atwood. As W.J. Keith argues, `We still have a mission: to have our literature recognized as an essential reflection of our national life. This is what I mean by retrenchment and consolidation. Literature can survive without literary criticism but it cannot survive if it is unknown and unread. It is criticism's prime function at the present time to see that it is both known and read with that mature enjoyment which is a combination of emotional sensitivity and humane intelligence. As critics, scholars, editors, we shall not be fulfilling our responsibilities or justifying our existence if we attempt anything less.' Or as Keith modestly observes in his introduction to this collection, `If this book is of any interest, it will be because Canadian literature is an important subject. Literary commentators like myself are middle-men, and should be prepared to admit the fact. If this book succeeds in helping readers to appreciate the works of Canadian writers that I discuss, and to derive increased pleasure and insight from them, it will have served its purpose. I can see no other justification for it -- or for any other work of criticism.'

Author : Marie Vautier
Publisher : McGill-Queen's Press - MQUP
Page : 364 pages
File Size : 55,8 Mb
Release : 1998-01-06
Category : Literary Criticism
ISBN : 9780773566880

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New World Myth by Marie Vautier Pdf

There is an emphasis on de-constructing, de-centring, de-stabilizing, and especially de-mythologizing in the study that illustrates New World myth narrators questioning the past in the present and carrying out their original investigations of myth, place, and identity. Underlining the fact that political realities are encoded in the language and narrative of the works, Vautier argues that the reworkings of literary, religious, and historical myths and political ideologies in these novels are grounded in their shared situation of being in and of the New World.

Author : Theo D'Haen,Hans Bertens
Publisher : Rodopi
Page : 248 pages
File Size : 52,8 Mb
Release : 1992
Category : Literary Criticism
ISBN : 9051834381

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Postmodern Fiction in Canada by Theo D'Haen,Hans Bertens Pdf

Author : Anonim
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 546 pages
File Size : 44,8 Mb
Release : 2009-06
Category : Dissertations, Academic
ISBN : STANFORD:36105213180867

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Dissertation Abstracts International by Anonim Pdf