The Routledge Concise History of Canadian Literature

ISBN-13: 9780415470452 / Angielski / Twarda / 2011 / 272 str.

Richard J. Lane

Opis

This title introduces the fiction, poetry and drama of Canada in its historical, political and cultural contexts. It outlines the history of Canadian literature from colonial times to the present and looks in particular at the literature of Quebec, regional literatures and the Canadian immigrant experience.

Spis treści

1. Introduction: The Colonial Contexts of Canadian Literature  2. Canada’s First Peoples: Orality, Textuality, Literature  3. Literatures of Landscape & Encounter 4. A New Nation: Prose Fiction & the Rise of the Canadian Novel  5. In Flanders Fields: War, Gender & Social Transformation  6. Canadian Modernism: 1914-1960  7. Feminist Literatures: A New Poetics of Identity  8. Canadian Postmodernism: Genre Trouble & New Media  9. The Postcolonial Imagination: Diversity, Difference, & Ethnicity 

O autorze

Authored by Lane, Richard J.