Unreal Country

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Author: Glenn Willmott

Publisher: McGill-Queen's Press - MQUP

Published: 2002

Total Pages: 260

ISBN-13: 9780773523968

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Willmott (English, Queen's U., Canada) has undertaken a study of modern English-language Canadian novels, breaking them down into unifying components to allow their consideration as a distinct literary genre. Among the authors whose novels are discussed are Bertram Brooker, Sinclair Ross, Frederick Philip Grove, Martha Ostenso, Ethel Wilson, Thomas Raddall, Ernest Buckler, and Alice Jones. Themes include the nation as youth, post-colonialism, post- modernism, imperialist ideology, and economic class distinctions. Annotation copyrighted by Book News, Inc., Portland, OR

Unreal Country

Unreal Country PDF

Author: Glenn Willmott

Publisher: McGill-Queen's Press - MQUP

Published: 2002-08-29

Total Pages: 248

ISBN-13: 0773570349

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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.

Strange Country

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Author: Seamus Deane

Publisher: Oxford University Press

Published: 1999

Total Pages: 288

ISBN-13: 9780198184904

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Strange Country identifies the origin, the development, and the success of the Irish literary tradition in English as one of the first literature that is both national and colonial.

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