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RE: Reading the Postmodern Canadian Literature and Criticism after Modernism / edited by Robert David Stacey.
- Format:
- Book
- Series:
- Re-appraisals, Canadian writers.
- Reappraisals, Canadian writers
- Language:
- English
- Subjects (All):
- Postmodernisme (Litterature)--Canada.
- Postmodernisme (Litterature).
- Litterature canadienne--20e siecle--Histoire et critique.
- Litterature canadienne.
- Postmodernism (Literature)--Canada.
- Postmodernism (Literature).
- Canadian literature--20th century--History and criticism.
- Canadian literature.
- Genre:
- Electronic books.
- Physical Description:
- 1 online resource (418 p.)
- Manufacture:
- Baltimore, Md. : Project MUSE, 2012
- Place of Publication:
- Ottawa : University of Ottawa Press, [2012?], c2010.
- Language Note:
- English
- Summary:
- This title explores the development of the idea of the postmodern and debates about its meaning and its applicability to various genres of Canadian writing, and charting its decline in recent years as a favoured critical trope.
- Contents:
- Introduction: post-, marked Canada / Robert David Stacey
- Retrospections. Boundary 2 and the Canadian postmodern / Robert Kroetsch ; Canadian postmodernisms: misreadings and non-readings / Frank Davey ; The glories of hindsight: what we know now / Linda Hutcheon
- En garde! Traditions, counter-traditions, anti-traditions. Postmodern postmortem: irony and literary history in Linda Hutcheon's poetics / Adam Carter ; Getting ready to have been postmodern / Christian Bök ; Feeling ugly: Daniel Jones, Lynn Crosbie, and Canadian postmodernism's second wave / Stephen Cain ; Reconciling regionalism: spatial epistemology, Robert Kroetsch, and the roots of Canadian postmodern fiction / Alexander MacLeod ; Postmodern decadence in Canadian sound and visual poetry / Gregory Betts
- Historicities. Attack of the "Latté-drinking relativists": postmodernism, historiography, and historical fiction / Herb Wyile ; "The postmodern impasse" and Guy Vanderhaeghe's The Englishman's boy / Jennifer Blair ; Postmodern realism and photographic subjectivity in The stone diaries / Deborah C. Bowen ; Re-performing microhistories: postmodern metatheatricality in Canadian millennial drama / Jenn Stephenson ; F the ineffable! The allegorical intention in ghostmodernism / Sylvia Sd̲erlind
- Publics. Bowering, postmodernism, and Canadian nationalism: a short sad book / Jason Wiens ; Re: reading the postmodern-"mess is lore" / Pauline Butling ; Why postmodernism now? Toward a poetry of enactment / Susan Rudy.
- Notes:
- Description based upon print version of record.
- Includes bibliographical references and index.
- Description based on print version record.
- ISBN:
- 1-280-69091-7
- 9786613667854
- 0-7766-1924-1
- OCLC:
- 722719060
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