In the Preface to A Certain Difficulty of Being Purdy examines the kinds of discourse that deal with the novel in some nineteenth-century Quebec novel prefaces, thereby revealing a theme of generic denegation in the sense of "This is not a novel." Purdy goes on to explore the transition fr...

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1. Verfasser:	Purdy, Anthony George, 1949-
Format:	Elektronisch E-Book
Sprache:	English
Veröffentlicht:	Montréal [Que.] : McGill-Queen's University Press, 1990.
Schlagworte:	French-Canadian fiction > Québec (Province) > History and criticism. Roman québécois > Histoire et critique. Québec (Province) dans la littérature LITERARY CRITICISM > Canadian. French-Canadian fiction Intellectual life Literature Québec (Province) > In literature. Québec (Province) > Intellectual life. Québec (Province) > Vie intellectuelle Québec Criticism, interpretation, etc.
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Zusammenfassung:	In the Preface to A Certain Difficulty of Being Purdy examines the kinds of discourse that deal with the novel in some nineteenth-century Quebec novel prefaces, thereby revealing a theme of generic denegation in the sense of "This is not a novel." Purdy goes on to explore the transition from epic to novel in Félix-Antoine Savard's Menaud, maître-draveur; the contradictions stemming from the use of a first-person, present-tense narrative in André Langevin's Poussière sur la ville; the problem of narrativity and history as it is raised in Hubert Aquin's Prochain épisode; and the way in which narrative voice functions in Anne Hébert's Kamouraska. He also touches on the current debate concerning the boundaries between modernism and post-modernism. Purdy does not offer an all-embracing system to explain the development of narrative in the Quebec novel, but leads us to an understanding of how these particular novels function, each in its own socio-historical context, and how they achieve or fail to achieve what they set out to do. The thread that runs through the different chapters is a pragmatic concern with Quebec's historical "difficulty of being" as it informs in varying ways the narrative projects of the novels in question.
Beschreibung:	1 online resource (xv, 176 pages)
Bibliographie:	Includes bibliographical references (pages 161-172) and index.
ISBN:	9780773562561 0773562567