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Record Nr.

UNINA9910154730203321

Autore

Dvorak Marta

Titolo

Ernest Buckler : rediscovery and reassessment / / Marta Dvorak

Pubbl/distr/stampa

Waterloo, Ont., : Wilfrid Laurier University Press, c2001

ISBN

1-280-92533-7

9786610925339

0-88920-822-0

Edizione

[1st ed.]

Descrizione fisica

1 online resource (288 p.)

Disciplina

813.54

Soggetti

Canadian literature

Lingua di pubblicazione

Inglese

Formato

Materiale a stampa

Livello bibliografico

Monografia

Note generali

Description based upon print version of record.

Nota di bibliografia

Includes bibliographical references (p. 249-260) and index.

Nota di contenuto

Contents; Acknowledgments; Introduction; Part One; Part Two; Conclusion; Notes; Works Cited; Appendix; Index

Sommario/riassunto

Margaret Atwood called Ernest Buckler ""one of the pathbreakers for the modern Canadian novel,"" yet he has slipped into relative obscurity. This new book by Marta Dvorák, Ernest Buckler: Rediscovery and Reassessment breaks new ground in Canadian literary studies by analyzing some of Buckler's works that have remained unknown or unexplored by critics, and by addressing the formalistic innovations of these texts. It allows a general readership to discover - and an international specialized readership to reassess - the wide, even eclectic scope of an author best known for his first no