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Gregory Betts - Avant-Garde Canadian Literature, Inbunden

Inbunden, Engelska, 2013

Avant-Garde Canadian Literature

The Early Manifestations

Av Gregory Betts

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Beskrivning
In Avant-Garde Canadian Literature, Gregory Betts draws attention to the fact that the avant-garde has had a presence in Canada long before the country's literary histories have recognized, and that the radicalism of avant-garde art has been sabotaged by pedestrian terms of engagement by the Canadian media, the public, and the literary critics. This book presents a rich body of evidence to illustrate the extent to which Canadians have been producing avant-garde art since the start of the twentieth century.Betts explores the radical literary ambitions and achievements of three different nodes of avant-garde literary activity: mystical revolutionaries from the 1910s to the 1930s; Surrealists/Automatists from the 1920s to the 1960s; and Canadian Vorticists from the 1920s to the 1970s. Avant-Garde Canadian Literature offers an entrance into the vocabulary of the ongoing and primarily international debate surrounding the idea of avant-gardism, providing readers with a functional vocabulary for discussing some of the most hermetic and yet energetic literature ever produced in this country.
Produktinformation
  • Utgivningsdatum: 2013-02-27
  • Mått: 161 x 237 x 25 mm
  • Vikt: 640 g
  • Format: Inbunden
  • Språk: Engelska
  • Antal sidor: 328
  • Upplaga: 13002
  • Förlag: University of Toronto Press
  • ISBN: 9781442643772
  • Utmärkelser: Short-listed for Gabrielle Roy Prize awarded by Association for Canadian and Quebec Literatures 2014 (Canada)
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Gregory Betts is a professor in the Faculty of Humanities at Brock University.

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‘Betts’ weaving of past and present, theory and literary practice, aesthetics and politics is carried out in a brilliant way.’- Alessandra Capperdoni (Canadian Literature Autumn 2014) ‘A fascinating work of scholarship, the book is an affront to the persistent belief that Canadian literature of the early twentieth century is a dreary subject. Betts has shown that in fact it is hardly comprehended….Avant-Garde Canadian Literature is an admirable and welcome contribution to the history and interpretation of literature in this country.’- Nicholas Bradley (The Bull Calf: Reviews in Fiction, Poetry, and Literary Criticism December 2015) ‘This book greatly advances our understanding of the experimental élan of Canada’s avant-garde throughout the century, and provides insight into collaborative authorship, radical networks, and surrealist and automatist writing and painting.’- Irene Gammel (The Journal of Canadian Studies, vol 50:01:2016)

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