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The wrong world : selected stories and essays / Bertram Brooker ; edited by Gregory Betts.
- Format:
- Book
- Author/Creator:
- Brooker, Bertram, 1888-1955.
- Series:
- Canadian literature collection.
- Canadian literature collection
- Language:
- English
- Subjects (All):
- Brooker, Bertram, 1888-1955.
- Brooker, Bertram.
- Canadian literature.
- Physical Description:
- 1 online resource (341 p.)
- Edition:
- 1st ed.
- Place of Publication:
- Ottawa : University of Ottawa Press, c2009.
- Language Note:
- English
- Summary:
- Bertram Brooker won the country's first Governor General's Award for literature in 1936 for his novel Think of the Earth, and his explosive, experimental paintings hang in every major gallery in the country. He was Canada's first multidisciplinary avant-gardist, successfully experimenting in literature, visual arts, film, and theatre. Brooker brought all of his experimental ambitions to his short fiction and prose. The Wrong World presents a rich sampling of his prose work, much of it previously unpublished, which adds new insight into his aesthetic ambitions. Working during an incredible period of transition in Canadian society, Brooker's stories document Canada's evolution from a provincial colony into a modern, urban country. His essays participated in that evolution by advocating a passionate awakening of the arts, the end of prudish sentiment and censorship, and a radical rethinking of the nature of war. They capture the limitations and hypocrisies of the Canadian social contract and argue for a more just and spiritual society. His stories humanize his social vision by dramatizing the psychological and emotional cost of Canada's transition into a modern civilization. In turn devastating, penetrating and poignant, Brooker's prose works offer a sharply focused window into the turbulent interwar years in Canada. Published in English.
- Contents:
- Contents
- Acknowledgements
- Introduction
- Short fiction
- Like Old Jehovah
- The Gilliland House
- Bad Order
- Mrs. Hungerford’s Milk
- A Glass Of Catawba
- Head Waitress
- Youth’s Manuscript
- (from) The Tangled Miracle
- The wrong world (Chapters 1 to 8)
- Essays and polemics
- To All the Nations...!
- The Spread of Negativism
- The Decay of Art
- The Price of Peace
- Free Prose
- (from) Notes for the Free Prose
- Nudes and Prudes
- When We Awake!
- Prophets Wanted.Textual chronology and editorial procedures
- Explanatory Notes
- Textual Emendations and Revisions
- Works Cited.
- Notes:
- Description based upon print version of record.
- Includes bibliographical references.
- ISBN:
- 9786613667359
- 9781280690419
- 1280690410
- 9780776618036
- 0776618032
- OCLC:
- 500984271
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