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These three works, displaying marked differences in purpose, tone, and effect, are all classics of Canadian literary and cultural criticism.John George Bourinot was a man of letters, an Imperialist, and a biculturalist, who was confident of his knowledge of the Canadian identity and felt it to be hi...
| Clasificación: | Libro Electrónico |
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| Formato: | Electrónico eBook |
| Idioma: | Inglés |
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Toronto [Ont.] :
University of Toronto Press,
©1973
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| Colección: | Literature of Canada.
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| Acceso en línea: | Texto completo |
| Sumario: | These three works, displaying marked differences in purpose, tone, and effect, are all classics of Canadian literary and cultural criticism.John George Bourinot was a man of letters, an Imperialist, and a biculturalist, who was confident of his knowledge of the Canadian identity and felt it to be his public mission to align reality with his own personal vision. Writing in 1893 to the élite represented by the members of the Royal Society, he described his work as 'a monograph on the intellectual development of the Dominion,' describing 'the progress of culture in a country still struggling with the difficulties of the material development of half a continent.'Two decades later, Thomas Guthrie Marquis and Camille Roy wrote what were, in contrast, specialized assignments, contributions to the compendium history, Canada and Its Provinces (1913). Addressing a far larger audience, and treating a vastly enlarged body of Canadian literature, their work comes much closer to contemporary scholarship, with greater clarity, organization, and sheer bulk of information, but with the loss of some of the charm and assurance of Bourinot's wide sweep. In further contrast to Bourinot's determined biculturalism and will to unity, Roy and Marquis' essays display vivid differences in the emotional allegiances and convictions of the founding cultures. Marquis starts by asking the question, 'Has Canada a voice of her own in literature distinct from that of England?'; Roy treats French-Canadian literature in its Roman Catholic contexts. |
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| Notas: | "Bourinot, Marquis, Roy. Criticism." Work by Bourinot is reprint of ed. issued as Royal Society of Canada series, [1], published Montreal, F. Brown, 1893. Essays by Marquis and Roy are reprinted from Canada and its provinces, edited by A. Shortt and A.G. Doughty, Toronto, Publishers' Association of Canada, 1913-17. Work by Bourinot has index. |
| Descripción Física: | 1 online resource (297 pages in various pagings) |
| Bibliografía: | Includes bibliographical references. |
| ISBN: | 9781442632301 1442632305 9781442633971 1442633972 9780802019509 0802019501 9780802061751 0802061753 9780802002945 0802002943 |