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Postmodern Fiction In Canada
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Author : Theo D'Haen
language : en
Publisher: Rodopi
Release Date : 1992
Postmodern Fiction In Canada written by Theo D'Haen and has been published by Rodopi this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 1992 with Literary Criticism categories.
The Canadian Postmodern
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Author : Linda Hutcheon
language : en
Publisher: Oxford University Press, USA
Release Date : 1988
The Canadian Postmodern written by Linda Hutcheon and has been published by Oxford University Press, USA this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 1988 with Literary Criticism categories.
This book studies the work of some of Canada's most prominent fiction writers in the context of postmodernism. Hutcheon shows that in Canada, this cultural phenomenon has not only found particularly fertile ground on which to develop but has also taken a distinctive form. She examines contemporary cultural theory and the writings of Margaret Atwood, Clark Blaise, George Bowering, Leonard Cohen, Timothy Findley, Jack Hodgins, Robert Kroetsch, Michael Ondaatje, Chris Scott, Susan Swan, Audrey Thomas, Aritha van Herk, and others.
Re Reading The Postmodern
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Author : Robert David Stacey
language : en
Publisher: University of Ottawa Press
Release Date : 2011-01-14
Re Reading The Postmodern written by Robert David Stacey and has been published by University of Ottawa Press this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 2011-01-14 with Literary Criticism categories.
It would be difficult to exaggerate the worldwide impact of postmodernism on the fields of cultural production and the social sciences over the last quarter century—even if the concept has been understood in various, even contradictory, ways. An interest in postmodernism and postmodernity has been especially strong in Canada, in part thanks to the country’s non-monolithic approach to history and its multicultural understanding of nationalism, which seems to align with the decentralized, plural, and open-ended pursuit of truth as a multiple possibility as outlined by Jean-François Lyotard. In fact, long before Lyotard published his influential work The Postmodern Condition in 1979, Canadian writers and critics were employing the term to describe a new kind of writing. RE: Reading the Postmodern marks a first cautious step toward a history of Canadian postmodernism, exploring 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.
New World Myth
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Author : Marie Vautier
language : en
Publisher: McGill-Queen's Press - MQUP
Release Date : 1998-01-06
New World Myth written by Marie Vautier and has been published by McGill-Queen's Press - MQUP this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 1998-01-06 with Literary Criticism categories.
There is an emphasis on de-constructing, de-centring, de-stabilizing, and especially de-mythologizing in the study that illustrates New World myth narrators questioning the past in the present and carrying out their original investigations of myth, place, and identity. Underlining the fact that political realities are encoded in the language and narrative of the works, Vautier argues that the reworkings of literary, religious, and historical myths and political ideologies in these novels are grounded in their shared situation of being in and of the New World.
The Canadian Postmodern
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Author : Linda Hutcheon
language : en
Publisher: OUP Canada
Release Date : 2012-12-20
The Canadian Postmodern written by Linda Hutcheon and has been published by OUP Canada this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 2012-12-20 with Literary Criticism categories.
The Canadian Postmodern examines the theory and practice of postmodernism as seen through both contemporary cultural theory and the writings of Audrey Thomas, Michael Ondaatje, Robert Kroetsch, Margaret Atwood, Timothy Findley, Jack Hodgins, Aritha van Herk, Leonard Cohen, Susan Swan, Clark Blaise, George Bowering, and others.
Postmodern Canadian Fiction And The Rhetoric Of Authority
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Author : Glenn Deer
language : en
Publisher: McGill-Queen's Press - MQUP
Release Date : 1994-02-08
Postmodern Canadian Fiction And The Rhetoric Of Authority written by Glenn Deer and has been published by McGill-Queen's Press - MQUP this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 1994-02-08 with Literary Criticism categories.
Deer illuminates the psychology of family relations and power struggles in Sheila Watson's The Double Hook, the surrealism and spirit of sexual rebellion in Leonard Cohen's Beautiful Losers, the tensions between private psychology and public politics in Dave Godfrey's The New Ancestors, the implied male sympathies in the guise of a feminist persona in Robert Kroetsch's Badlands, the playful yet didactic uses of history in George Bowering's Burning Water, and the paradoxes of power in Margaret Atwood's dystopia, The Handmaid's Tale. Inspired by the philosophies of rhetoric and social discourse in the work of Kenneth Burke, Roger Fowler, Wayne Booth, and George Dillon, Deer forcefully engages the politics of postmodernism in its theoretical and literary dimensions by reading against the grain of canonizing criticism. He provides a detailed discussion of the connections between postmodern literary forms and world views and focuses particularly on how novels are scripted to influence readers and what kinds of world and social views are being promoted. Combining the ethical focus of Wayne Booth and Gerald Graff with elements of deconstruction, Deer's specialized readings of the novels imaginatively construct the addresser-addressee relations of texts and explicate narrative authority. This study will be of particular interest to students of Canadian literature and literary politics as well as scholars of rhetorical theory and criticism.
New York And Toronto Novels After Postmodernism
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Author : Caroline Rosenthal
language : en
Publisher: Camden House
Release Date : 2011
New York And Toronto Novels After Postmodernism written by Caroline Rosenthal and has been published by Camden House this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 2011 with Literary Collections categories.
Cities are material and symbolic spaces through which nations define their cultural identities. The great cities that have arisen on the North American continent have stimulated the imaginations of the United States and Canada in very different ways. This first comparative study of North American urban fiction starts out by delineating the sociohistorical and literary contexts in which cities grew into diverging symbolic spaces in American and Canadian culture. After an overview of recent developments in the cultural conception of urban space, the book takes New York and Toronto fiction as exemplary for exploring representations of the urban after postmodernism. It analyzes four twenty-first-century novels: two set in New York - Siri Hustvedt's What I Loved and Paule Marshall's The Fisher King - and two set in Toronto - Carol Shields's Unless and Dionne Brand's What We All Long For. While these texts continue to echo the specific traditions of nation building and canon formation in the United States and Canada, they also share certain features. All of them investigate the affective crossroads of the city while returning to a more realistic mode of representation. Caroline Rosenthal is Professor of American Literature at the Friedrich-Schiller University in Jena, Germany.
Postmodern Fiction In Canada
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Author : Johannes Willem Bertens
language : en
Publisher: Rodopi
Release Date : 1992
Postmodern Fiction In Canada written by Johannes Willem Bertens and has been published by Rodopi this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 1992 with Canadian fiction categories.
Unreal Country
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Author : Glenn Willmott
language : en
Publisher: McGill-Queen's Press - MQUP
Release Date : 2002-08-29
Unreal Country written by Glenn Willmott and has been published by McGill-Queen's Press - MQUP this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 2002-08-29 with Literary Criticism categories.
Modernism is one of the great manifold movements in literature and the arts. Responding with magnificent independence to inherited values and tastes, and with radical novelty to the future, varieties of modernism anxiously express both the ends of the Enlightenment and the beginnings of Postmodernism, and thus the feeling of a crisis that continues to haunt contemporary life. Modernity in Canada, stretching from the turn of the century to the 1950s, is a period marked by unprecedented urban and industrial growth, by urban and rural immigration from around the world, and by unique changes in power between regions, classes, races, and sexes. At the same time it is a period profoundly aware of the colonial past and its persistence, for good or ill, in the fragile economy and volatile culture of a new nation.
Trading Magic For Fact Fact For Magic
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Author : Marc Colavincenzo
language : en
Publisher: Rodopi
Release Date : 2003
Trading Magic For Fact Fact For Magic written by Marc Colavincenzo and has been published by Rodopi this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 2003 with Literary Criticism categories.
This study brings together three major areas of interest - history, postmodern fiction, and myth. Whereas neither history and postmodern fiction nor history and myth are strangers to one another, postmodernism and myth are odd bedfellows. For many critics, postmodern thought with its resistance to metanarratives stands in direct and deliberate contrast to myth with its apparent tendency to explain the world by means of neat, complete narratives. There is a strain of postmodern Canadian historical fiction in which myth actually forms a complement not only to postmodernism's suspicion of master-narratives but also to its privileging of those marginal and at times ignored areas of history. The fourteen works of Canadian fiction considered demonstrate a doubled impulse which at first glance seems contradictory. On the one hand, they go about demythologizing - in the Barthesian sense - various elements of historical discourse, exposing its authority as not simply a natural given but as a construct. This includes the fact that the view of history portrayed in the fiction has been either underrepresented or suppressed by official historiography. On the other hand, the history is then re-mythologized, in that it becomes part of a pre-existing myth, its mythic elements are foregrounded, myth and magic are woven into the narrative, or it is portrayed as extraordinary in some way. The result is an empowering of these histories for the future; they are made larger than life and unforgettable.