In Avant-Garde Canadian Literature, Gregory Betts draws attention to the fact that the avant-garde has had a presence in Canada long before the country's literary histories have recognized, and that the radicalism of avant-garde art has been sabotaged by pedestrian terms of engagement by the Ca...

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1. Verfasser:	Betts, Gregory 1975- (VerfasserIn)
Format:	Elektronisch E-Book
Sprache:	English
Veröffentlicht:	Toronto University of Toronto Press [2017]
Schlagworte:	Geschichte 1900-1980 DISCOUNT-B. Avantgardeliteratur Kanada
Online-Zugang:	DE-859 DE-860 DE-473 DE-739 DE-1046 DE-1043 DE-858 URL des Erstveröffentlichers
Zusammenfassung:	In Avant-Garde Canadian Literature, Gregory Betts draws attention to the fact that the avant-garde has had a presence in Canada long before the country's literary histories have recognized, and that the radicalism of avant-garde art has been sabotaged by pedestrian terms of engagement by the Canadian media, the public, and the literary critics. This book presents a rich body of evidence to illustrate the extent to which Canadians have been producing avant-garde art since the start of the twentieth century.Betts explores the radical literary ambitions and achievements of three different nodes of avant-garde literary activity: mystical revolutionaries from the 1910s to the 1930s; Surrealists/Automatists from the 1920s to the 1960s; and Canadian Vorticists from the 1920s to the 1970s. Avant-Garde Canadian Literature offers an entrance into the vocabulary of the ongoing and primarily international debate surrounding the idea of avant-gardism, providing readers with a functional vocabulary for discussing some of the most hermetic and yet energetic literature ever produced in this country
Beschreibung:	Description based on online resource; title from PDF title page (publisher's Web site, viewed 13. Sep 2017)
Beschreibung:	1 online resource
ISBN:	9781442696907
DOI:	10.3138/9781442696907