Postmodern Fiction in Canada
Author | : Theo D'Haen |
Publisher | : Rodopi |
Total Pages | : 248 |
Release | : 1992 |
Genre | : Literary Criticism |
ISBN | : 9789051834383 |
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Author | : Theo D'Haen |
Publisher | : Rodopi |
Total Pages | : 248 |
Release | : 1992 |
Genre | : Literary Criticism |
ISBN | : 9789051834383 |
Author | : Robert David Stacey |
Publisher | : University of Ottawa Press |
Total Pages | : 418 |
Release | : 2011-01-14 |
Genre | : Literary Criticism |
ISBN | : 0776619233 |
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.
Author | : Linda Hutcheon |
Publisher | : Oxford University Press, USA |
Total Pages | : 256 |
Release | : 1988 |
Genre | : Literary Criticism |
ISBN | : |
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.
Author | : Marie Vautier |
Publisher | : McGill-Queen's Press - MQUP |
Total Pages | : 364 |
Release | : 1998-01-06 |
Genre | : Literary Criticism |
ISBN | : 0773566880 |
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.
Author | : Linda Hutcheon |
Publisher | : OUP Canada |
Total Pages | : 0 |
Release | : 2012-12-20 |
Genre | : Literary Criticism |
ISBN | : 9780199001798 |
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.
Author | : Theo D'Haen |
Publisher | : Brill / Rodopi |
Total Pages | : 244 |
Release | : 1992 |
Genre | : Canadian fiction |
ISBN | : 9789051834383 |
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Publisher | : BRILL |
Total Pages | : 206 |
Release | : 1988 |
Genre | : Literary Criticism |
ISBN | : 9004647201 |
Author | : Glenn Deer |
Publisher | : McGill-Queen's Press - MQUP |
Total Pages | : 168 |
Release | : 1994 |
Genre | : Literary Criticism |
ISBN | : 9780773511590 |
Criticism that takes an ideological approach to Canadian writing is scarce; political-rhetorical studies are even more uncommon. In this original approach to postwar Canadian fiction Glenn Deer presents provocative readings of ideologies as well as experiments with authorial stances.
Author | : Brian Edwards |
Publisher | : Routledge |
Total Pages | : 332 |
Release | : 2013-05-13 |
Genre | : Literary Criticism |
ISBN | : 113482565X |
Drawing on developments in critical theory and postmodernist fiction, this study makes an important contribution to the appreciation of playforms in language, texts, and cultural practices. Tracing trajectories in theories of play and game, and with particular attention to the writings of Nietzsche, Wittgenstein, Bakhtin, and Derrida, the author argues that the concept of play provides perspectives on language and communication processes useful both for analysis of literary texts and also for understanding the interactive nature of constructions of knowledge Exploring manifestations of game and play throughout the history of Western culture, from Plato to Pynchon, this study traces developments in 20th-century cultural and literary theory of ideas about play in the writings of Johan Huizinga, Roger Caillois, Jacques Ehrmann, Bernard Suits, James Hans, Mihai Spariosu and Robert Rawdon Wilson. The author emphasizes post-structuralist developments with specific attention to deconstruction and reception theory and argues that deconstruction makes the most significant recent contribution to play theory in its application to language and to literature The work also explores the modes and effects of playforms in particular examples of postmodernist fiction. With attention to major works from Thomas Pynchon (Gravity's Rainbow), John Barth (LETTERS , Robert Kroetsch (What the Crow Said ), Angela Carter (Nights at the Circus ) and Peter Carey (Illywhacker ), Edwards acknowledges and deconstructs such basic oppositions as play and seriousness, fiction and truth, difference and identity to explore the literature's cultural/political significance. Seeking to affirm the fiction's continuing social relevance, the readings presented in this book place play irresistibly at the heartland of language, meaning and culture.
Author | : Caroline Rosenthal |
Publisher | : Camden House |
Total Pages | : 324 |
Release | : 2011 |
Genre | : Literary Collections |
ISBN | : 1571134891 |
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.