Bolder flights : essays on the Canadian long poem / edited and with a preface by Frank M. Tierney and Angela Robbeson.

Format:

Book

Contributor:

Robbeson, Angela, 1967-

Tierney, Frank M.

Series:

Re-appraisals, Canadian writers ; 21.

Re-appraisals, Canadian writers, 1189-6787 ; 21

Language:

English

Subjects (All):

Canadian poetry--19th century--History and criticism.

Canadian poetry.

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

Physical Description:

1 online resource (192 p.)

Edition:

1st ed.

Place of Publication:

Ottawa : University of Ottawa Press, 1998.

Language Note:

English

Summary:

A growing number of literary historians and critics now recognize the contemporary long poem as a distinctively Canadian genre. This collection of essays leads the reader to a deeper understanding of Canadian literary cultures in terms of their local intimacies and idiosyncrasies as well as in their national contexts.

Contents:

Contents; Preface; Colonial Colonizing: An Introductory Survey of the Canadian Long Poem; Writing and Rewriting Adam Hood Burwell's TalbotRoad; ""A richer, variegated vest"": Dressing Nature in Early Canadian Long Poems; Questioning the Canon: Early Long Poems by Canadian Women; Pratt's Modernism, or Digging in the Strata; Virtu(e)al History: Interpolation in Pratt's Brébeuf and His Brethren; The Contemporary Canadian Long Poem as System: Freisen, Atwood, Kroetsch, Arnason, McFadden; David Arnason's Marsh Burning: Beginnings

Sharon's Bottle, Malcolm's Ukelele: The Machinery of Desire in ConfabulationsFred Wah and the Radical Long Poem; The Voices of Elegy: or, Hurtin' Songs for Bronwen Wallace; Kristjana Gunnars' Carnival of Longing. A Passionate Reading; Accessing the Criminal Paradise in Dennis Cooley's Bloody Jack and Other Outlaw Fictions

Notes:

Description based upon print version of record.

Description based on print version record.

Includes bibliographical references.

ISBN:

0-7766-1550-5

OCLC:

742332943