Bolder flights : essays on the Canadian long poem /

"A growing number of literary historians and critics now recognize the long poem as a distinctively Canadian genre. This has been particularly evidenced through the recurrence of documentary aspects addressing both topographical and memorial functions. Together these features serve as indicator...

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Bibliographic Details
Call Number:Libro Electrónico
Other Authors: Tierney, Frank M., 1930-, Robbeson, Angela, 1967-
Format: Electronic eBook
Language:Inglés
Published: Ottawa [Ont.] : University of Ottawa Press, ©1998.
Series:Re-appraisals, Canadian writers ; 21.
Subjects:
Canadian poetry > History and criticism.
Literary form.
Poésie canadienne-anglaise > Histoire et critique.
Genres littéraires.
LITERARY CRITICISM > Canadian.
Literary form
Canadian poetry
Electronic books.
Criticism, interpretation, etc.
Online Access:Texto completo
Table of Contents:
  • Preface; Colonial Colonizing: An Introductory Survey of the Canadian Long Poem; Writing and Rewriting Adam Hood Burwell's TalbotRoad; "A richer, variegated vest": Dressing Nature in Early Canadian Long Poems; Questioning the Canon: Early Long Poems by Canadian Women; Pratt's Modernism, or Digging in the Strata; Virtu(e)al History: Interpolation in Pratt's Brébeuf and His Brethren; The Contemporary Canadian Long Poem as System: Freisen, Atwood, Kroetsch, Arnason, McFadden; David Arnason's Marsh Burning: Beginnings.
  • Sharon's Bottle, Malcolm's Ukelele: The Machinery of Desire in ConfabulationsFred Wah and the Radical Long Poem; The Voices of Elegy: or, Hurtin' Songs for Bronwen Wallace; Kristjana Gunnars' Carnival of Longing. A Passionate Reading; Accessing the Criminal Paradise in Dennis Cooley's Bloody Jack and Other Outlaw Fictions.

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