Modern Realism in English-Canadian Fiction

Hill, Colin

University of Toronto Press（2012/05発売）

• 製本 Hardcover:ハードカバー版／ページ数 304 p.
• 言語 ENG
• 商品コード 9781442640566
• DDC分類 813.5

Full Description

Much of the scholarship on twentieth-century Canadian literature has argued that English-Canadian fiction was plagued by backwardness and an inability to engage fully with the movement of modernism that was so prevalent in British and American fiction and poetry. Modern Realism in English-Canadian Fiction re-evaluates Canadian literary culture to posit that it has been misunderstood because it is a distinct genre, a regional form of the larger international modernist movement.
Examining literary magazines, manifestos, archival documents, and major writers such as Frederick Philip Grove, Morley Callaghan, and Raymond Knister, Colin Hill identifies a 'modern realism' that crosses regions as well as urban and rural divides. A bold reading of the modern-realist aesthetic and an articulate challenge to several enduring and limiting myths about Canadian writing, Modern Realism in English- Canadian Fiction will stimulate important debate in literary circles everywhere.

Contents

Acknowledgments



The Modern-Realist Movement: Contexts, Aesthetics, Origins
Manifestos for a Modern Realism: Canadian Bookman and The Canadian Forum of the 1920s
Raymond Knister: Revolutionary Modern Realist
The Proliferation of Modern Realism in Canada, Part 1: Prairie Realism Re-evaluated
Frederick Philip Grove's Eclectic Realism and 'The Great Tradition'
The Proliferation of Modern Realism in Canada, Part 2: Urban and Social Realism Reclaimed
Morley Callaghan's Cosmopolitan Modern Realism
Modern Realism and Canadian Literature

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