Translocated modernisms : Paris and other lost generations / edited by Emily Ballantyne, Marta Dvorak and Dean Irvine.

Format:

Book

Contributor:

Ballantyne, Emily, editor.

Dvorak, Marta, editor.

Irvine, Dean J. (Dean Jay), editor.

Language:

English

Subjects (All):

Canadian literature--History and criticism.

Canadian literature.

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

Physical Description:

1 online resource (214 pages) : illustrations

Edition:

1st ed.

Place of Publication:

[Place of publication not identified] : University of Ottawa Press, 2016.

Summary:

Translocated Modernisms focuses on the other lost generations of expatriates from modernism's global peripheries-principally but not exclusively from Canada-who travelled to and through Paris in the early to mid-20th century.

Contents:

Intro

Title Page

Copyright

Contents

Acknowledgements

List of Illustrations

Introduction

I A Matter of Life and Death

1: "Like a spoonful of water in a river": An Appreciation of Mavis Gallant

2: The Picnic

II Places

3: Mansfield, Manoukhin, and International Modernism: Paris 1922

4: "I Am that Am I?" Brion Gysin's Art of Unsettled Identities

5: The Art of Engraving as Modernist Genre: David Silverberg at Stanley William Hayter's Atelier 17, Paris 1957

Illustrations

III Practices

6: Morley Callaghan as Literary "Heavyweight": Modernism, the New Yorker, and Contingencies of Cultural Value

7: Relational Autobiographies: John Glassco, Authenticity, Sexuality, and the Lost Generation Memoir

8: Malcolm Lowry's "Lost" Novel: From Paris Stories to Canadian Ashes to Archival Return

IV Intersections

9: Sheila Watson's Paris Journals and the "Imminent Narrative"

10: Equivocal Heaven: Paris, Toronto, and the Divine City in Wyndham Lewis and Sheila Watson

11: "through the back door": Roy K. Kiyooka as Errant Modernist

Coda

Altermodernities: Thankfully, We Have Never Been Modern

Contributors

Index.

Notes:

Includes index.

Description based on online resource; title from PDF title page (ebrary, viewed July 10, 2017).

ISBN:

9780776623818

0776623818

9780776623825

0776623826