Setting in the east : Maritime realist fiction / David Creelman.

Format:

Book

Author/Creator:

Creelman, David, 1962-

Language:

English

Subjects (All):

Canadian fiction--Maritime Provinces--History and criticism.

Canadian fiction.

Authors, Canadian--Homes and haunts--Maritime Provinces.

Authors, Canadian.

Canadian fiction--20th century--History and criticism.

Realism in literature.

Maritime Provinces--Intellectual life.

Maritime Provinces.

Maritime Provinces--In literature.

Physical Description:

xii, 247 p.

Edition:

1st ed.

Place of Publication:

Montreal ; Ithaca : McGill-Queen's University Press, c2003.

Language Note:

English

Summary:

He shows that realism arrived comparatively late to the Maritime provinces and argues that the emergence of a realist style corresponded with a dramatic period of economic and cultural disruption during which the Eastern provinces were transformed from one Canada's most developed, prosperous, and promising regions into one characterized by chronic underemployment and underdevelopment. The region is thus torn between its memory of an earlier, more traditional social order and its present experience as a modern industrial society. These tensions are embedded in the Maritime character and have affected not only the lives of its people but the imaginations and texts of its writers. The stories of Thomas Raddall, Hugh MacLennan, Charles Bruce, Ernest Buckler, Alden Nowlan, Alistair MacLeod, Donna Smyth, Budge Wilson, and David Adams Richards have been deeply influenced by the cultural shifts they have observed. In the last two decades a host of new literary voices has emerged, and Creelman also explores the works of such writers as Ann-Marie MacDonald, Lynn Coady, Nancy Bauer, Deborah Joy Corey, Carol Bruneau, Alan Wilson, Leo McKay, and Sheldon Currie. He shows that these Maritime artists share a common regional identity that shapes their narratives as they find their own paths through the tensions which envelop them.

Contents:

Front Matter

Contents

Acknowledgments

Abbreviations

Introduction

Approaching the East: Transformations, Ideology, and Realism

Realism with Reservations: Frank Parker Day, Hugh MacLennan, Thomas Head Raddall

Between Realism and Nostalgia: Charles Bruce

Conservative Laments: Ernest Buckler

Writing in the Dusk: Alden Nowlan and Alistair MacLeod

Hard Bargains: David Adams Richards

Breaking Silence: Smyth, Bauer, Wilson, Corey, Coady, Bruneau, MacDonald

Diverging Streams: Fiction at the End of the Century

Realism’s Wake: A Conclusion

Notes

Bibliography

Index

Notes:

Includes index.

Includes bibliographical references (p. [225]-239) and index.

ISBN:

9786612860881

9781282860889

1282860887

9780773570740

0773570748

OCLC:

929120837