Description |
1 online resource (279 pages) |
Contents |
Intro -- Contents -- Acknowledgments -- Abbreviations -- Introduction: The Socialist-Modernist Encounter -- Women, Modernism, and Socialism -- Dialectics of Scarcity and Abundance -- The Literary Left and the Field of Cultural Production -- 1 Revolution, Gender, and Third Period Modernism -- Dorothy Livesay and the Third Period -- Communist Periodicals and Counterpublics -- The Revolutionary Chorus -- The Social Work of Documentary Poetry -- 2 The Poet, the Public, and Popular Front Modernism -- The Dustbowl and the Spanish Civil War -- Popular Front Periodicals and Poetics -- Anne Marriott's The Wind Our Enemy: A Modernist Poem -- Anne Marriott's The Wind Our Enemy: A Popular Front Poem -- 3 Leftist Theatre and the Performance of Gender -- The Socialist Stage and Amateur Theatre -- Reconstructing Leftist Performances -- Women and the Communist Stage -- The Comradely Ideal and Social Democratic Drama -- 4 The Novel and Documentary Modernism -- Irene Baird's Waste Heritage and Mass Unemployment -- Documentary Modernism -- Radical Manhood in Waste Heritage -- Writing Women, Reading Men -- Conclusion: New Formations -- the Second World War and Beyond -- Notes -- Works Cited -- Index -- A -- B -- C -- D -- E -- F -- G -- H -- I -- J -- K -- L -- M -- N -- O -- P -- R -- S -- T -- U -- V -- W -- Y |
Summary |
Comrades and Critics is the first full-length study of Canada's 1930s literary left |
Notes |
Print version record |
Subject |
Canadian literature -- 20th century -- History and criticism
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Women authors, Canadian -- 20th century -- Political and social views
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Socialism and literature -- Canada -- History -- 20th century
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Right and left (Political science) in literature.
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Modernism (Literature) -- Canada
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Nineteen thirties.
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Canadian literature
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Modernism (Literature)
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Nineteen thirties
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Right and left (Political science) in literature
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Socialism and literature
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Canada
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Genre/Form |
Criticism, interpretation, etc.
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History
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Form |
Electronic book
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ISBN |
9781442687707 |
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1442687703 |
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