| Description |
1 online resource (xix, 324 pages) |
| Contents |
New Brunswick as Colony, Province, and Supplicant -- A.G. Bailey: Bridging the Centuries -- Desmond Pacey: Reducing the Nation to Order -- Fred Cogswell: Internationalizing the Local -- The Fiddlehead Project: Pioneering a Canadian Post-Colonial |
| Summary |
"For many Canadians, the small province of New Brunswick on Canada's scenic east coast is "a nice place to visit but no place to live," plagued for generations by outmigration and economic stagnation. In The Fiddlehead Moment, Tony Tremblay challenges this potent stereotype by showcasing the work of a group of literary modernists who set out to change the meaning of New Brunswick in the national lexicon. Alfred Bailey, Desmond Pacey, Fred Cogswell, and a formidable group of local poets and cultural workers--collectively, New Brunswick's Fiddlehead School--sought to restore New Brunswick's literary reputation by adapting avant-garde modernist practices to the contours of the province, opening it to the contemporary world while also encouraging writers to make it their subject. The result was a non-urban form of modernism that was as responsive to technical innovation as to the human geographies of New Brunswick. By placing New Brunswick practitioners at the forefront of the nation's midcentury modernist project, Tremblay adds an important new chapter to our understanding of Canadian modernism. The Fiddlehead Moment is the first critical examination of this group's considerable influence. Whether through Bailey's ethnomethodology, Pacey's critical ordering, or Cogswell's editorial eclecticism in the Fiddlehead magazine and Fiddlehead Poetry Books, writers and critics in hinterlands like New Brunswick, Tremblay argues, shaped modernist writing as a whole."-- Provided by publisher |
| Bibliography |
Includes bibliographical references and index |
| Notes |
Online resource; title from digital title page (viewed on January 23, 2020) |
| Subject |
Canadian literature -- New Brunswick -- History and criticism
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Modernism (Literature) -- New Brunswick
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LITERARY CRITICISM -- Canadian.
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Canadian literature
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Modernism (Literature)
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New Brunswick
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| Genre/Form |
Electronic books
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Literary criticism
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Criticism, interpretation, etc.
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Literary criticism.
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Critiques littéraires.
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| Form |
Electronic book
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| LC no. |
2020416131 |
| ISBN |
9780228000556 |
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0228000548 |
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9780228000549 |
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0228000556 |
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9780773559080 |
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0773559086 |
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9780773559073 |
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0773559078 |
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