The Canadian Postmodern

A Study of Contemporary Canadian Fiction
Herausgeber: Hutcheon, Linda

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Produktbeschreibung

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.

Produktdetails

• Verlag: Oxford University Press, USA
• Seitenzahl: 256
• Erscheinungstermin: 13. Januar 2013
• Englisch
• Abmessung: 152mm x 226mm x 23mm
• Gewicht: 286g
• ISBN-13: 9780199001798
• ISBN-10: 0199001790
• Artikelnr.: 37649929

Autorenporträt

Linda Hutcheon, O.C., is a professor of English and of the Centre for Comparative Literature at the University of Toronto who has published in the fields of literary theory and criticism, opera, and Canadian Studies. In 2000 she was elected the 117th President of the Modern Language Association, the third Canadian to hold this position, and the first Canadian woman.

Inhaltsangabe

* Preface
* 1: Introduction
* 2: Caveat Lector: The Early Postmodernism of Leonard Cohen
* 3: The Postmodernism Scribe: The Dynamic Stasis of Contemporary
Canadian Writing
* 4: Historiographic Metafiction
* 5: The Postmodern Challenge to Boundaries
* 6: 'Shape Shifters': Canadian Women Writers and the Tradition
* 7: Process, Produce, and Politics: The Postmodernism of Margaret
Atwood
* 8: Seeing Double: Concluding with Kroetsch
* 9: Appendix: The Novel (1972-1984) from The Literary History of
Canada, Vol. 4.