New Contexts of Canadian Criticism

New Contexts of Canadian Criticism PDF

Author: Ajay Heble

Publisher: Broadview Press

Published: 1997-04-18

Total Pages: 428

ISBN-13: 9781551111063

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Times change, lives change, and the terms we need to describe our literature or society or condition—what Raymond Williams calls “keywords”—change with them. Perhaps the most significant development in the quarter-century since Eli Mandel edited his anthology Contexts of Canadian Criticism has been the growing recognition that not only do different people need different terms, but the same terms have different meanings for different people and in different contexts. Nation, history, culture, art, identity—the positions we take discussing these and other issues can lead to conflict, but also hold the promise of a new sort of community. Speaking of First Nations people and their literature, Beth Brant observes that “Our connections … are like the threads of a weaving. … While the colour and beauty of each thread is unique and important, together they make a communal material of strength and durability.” New Contexts of Canadian Criticism is designed to be read, to work, in much the same manner.

Floating the Borders

Floating the Borders PDF

Author: Nurjehan Aziz

Publisher: Mawenzi House Publishers

Published: 1999

Total Pages: 296

ISBN-13:

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Literary Criticism. Multicultural Studies. In the past three decades, Canadian writers of a diversity of backgrounds have challenged the traditional understanding of the term Canadian Literature, its conventions and its boundaries. Critics of a similar diversity have come together in this volume to provide the contexts for some of the best new Canadian writing being done today. Rohinton Mistry, Cyril Dabydeen, Dionne Brand, Cecil Foster, M G Vassanji, Shani Mootoo, Josef Skvorecky, Neil Bissoondath, Rienzi Crusz, Lawrence Hill, Andre Alexis, Pier de Giorgio Cicco, Mary di Michele, Fred Wah, Evelyn Lau, and others are included. The end of this volume contains incisive reviews of books.

Northrop Frye's Canadian Literary Criticism and Its Influence

Northrop Frye's Canadian Literary Criticism and Its Influence PDF

Author: Branko Gorjup

Publisher: University of Toronto Press

Published: 2009-01-01

Total Pages: 337

ISBN-13: 0802099386

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Northrop Frye's Canadian Literary Criticism examines the impact of Frye's criticism on Canadian literary scholarship as well as the response of Frye's peers to his articulation of a 'Canadian' criticism.

An Independent Stance

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Author: W. J. Keith

Publisher: The Porcupine's Quill

Published: 1991

Total Pages: 320

ISBN-13: 9780889841215

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Part One of this strongly worded, informed, and wide-ranging collection examines key issues for the future of Canadian criticism. Part Two offers new readings of important works by Grove, Wilson, MacLennan, Davies, Laurence, Hood, Wiebe, Hodgins, and Atwood. As W.J. Keith argues, `We still have a mission: to have our literature recognized as an essential reflection of our national life. This is what I mean by retrenchment and consolidation. Literature can survive without literary criticism but it cannot survive if it is unknown and unread. It is criticism's prime function at the present time to see that it is both known and read with that mature enjoyment which is a combination of emotional sensitivity and humane intelligence. As critics, scholars, editors, we shall not be fulfilling our responsibilities or justifying our existence if we attempt anything less.' Or as Keith modestly observes in his introduction to this collection, `If this book is of any interest, it will be because Canadian literature is an important subject. Literary commentators like myself are middle-men, and should be prepared to admit the fact. If this book succeeds in helping readers to appreciate the works of Canadian writers that I discuss, and to derive increased pleasure and insight from them, it will have served its purpose. I can see no other justification for it -- or for any other work of criticism.'

Future Indicative

Future Indicative PDF

Author: John Moss

Publisher: University of Ottawa Press

Published: 1987-01-01

Total Pages: 254

ISBN-13: 0776610589

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The format of this book is arbitrary and exact, the way paint is in a landscape by Alex Colville. It follows the program of the symposium that took place at the University of Ottawa, from April 25 to 27, 1986. As Bakhtin leaps from the sidelines to centre stage, as Derrida clambers out of orchestra pit into the prompter's box, and Lancan swings from the flies, as Foucault, Lévi-Strauss, Saussure, Barthes, and a throng of others rhubarb their way through the text, one recognizes just how connected all the disparate elements of this critical extravaganza really are.

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