The Fiddlehead moment : pioneering an alternative Canadian modernism in New Brunswick / Tony Tremblay.

Format:

Book

Author/Creator:

Tremblay, Tony, author.

Language:

English

Subjects (All):

Canadian literature.

Physical Description:

1 online resource (345 pages)

Place of Publication:

Montreal, Quebec : McGill-Queen's University Press, 2019.

Summary:

For many Canadians, the small province of New Brunswick on Canada's scenic east coast is "a nice place to visit but no place to live," plagued for generations by outmigration and economic stagnation. In The Fiddlehead Moment Tony Tremblay challenges this potent stereotype by showcasing the work of a group of literary modernists who set out to change the meaning of New Brunswick in the national lexicon. Alfred Bailey, Desmond Pacey, Fred Cogswell, and a formidable group of local poets and cultural workers - collectively, New Brunswick's Fiddlehead School - sought to restore New Brunswick's literary reputation by adapting avant-garde modernist practices to the contours of the province, opening it to the contemporary world while also encouraging writers to make it their subject. The result was a non-urban form of modernism that was as responsive to technical innovation as to the human geographies of New Brunswick. By placing New Brunswick writers and critics at the forefront of Canadian literature in the midcentury modernist project, Tremblay adds an important new chapter to our understanding of Canadian modernism. The Fiddlehead Moment is the first critical examination of this group's considerable influence. Whether through Bailey's ethnomethodology, Pacey's critical ordering, or Cogswell's editorial eclecticism in the Fiddlehead magazine and Fiddlehead Poetry Books, authors in New Brunswick, Tremblay argues, had a profound impact on writing in Canada.

Contents:

Front Matter

Contents

Illustrations

Preface

New Brunswick as Colony, Province, and Supplicant

A.G. Bailey: Bridging the Centuries

Desmond Pacey: Reducing the Nation to Order

Fred Cogswell: Internationalizing the Local

The Fiddlehead Project: Pioneering a Canadian Post-Colonial

Notes

Bibliography

Index

Notes:

Description based on print version record.

ISBN:

9780228000556

0228000556

9780228000549

0228000548

OCLC:

1110704040