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Record Nr.

UNINA9910154968103321

Autore

Heidenreich Rosmarin Elfriede <1943->

Titolo

The postwar novel in Canada : narrative patterns and reader response / / Rosmarin Heidenreich ; foreword by Linda Hutcheon

Pubbl/distr/stampa

Waterloo, Ont., Canada, : W. Laurier University Press, c1989

ISBN

1-55458-701-8

0-88920-780-1

Edizione

[1st ed.]

Descrizione fisica

1 online resource (216 p.)

Collana

Bibliotheque de la Revue canadienne de litterature comparee ; ; vol. 8 = Library of the Canadian review of comparative literature ; ; vol. 8

Disciplina

810.99287

813.09

Soggetti

Canadian fiction - 20th century - History and criticism

French-Canadian fiction - 20th century - History and criticism

Lingua di pubblicazione

Inglese

Formato

Materiale a stampa

Livello bibliografico

Monografia

Note generali

Includes index.

Nota di bibliografia

Includes bibliographical references.

Nota di contenuto

Contents; Acknowledgments; Foreword; Introduction; Part I: Perspectival Structures and Norm Repertoires; Part II: Aspects of Indeterminacy; Part III: Patterns of Allusion; Afterword; Selected Bibliography; Index

Sommario/riassunto

As a comparative study which includes the analysis of both English-Canadian and Quebec novels, this book provides an overview of the novel as it has developed in this country since the Second World War. Focusing on narratological rather than thematic elements, the book represents a systematic application of the insights and analytical tools of reader-reception theory, in particular the models proposed by Wolfgang Iser and Hans Robert Jauss. Placing the emphasis on the text and its effects rather than on the historical or psycho-sociological genesis of the text, the author invokes the models and paradigms of other literatures to establish a broader cultural context permitting the significance of a literature to emerge as a carrier of meaning in and beyond the culture that produces it. Tracing a critical path from Hugh MacLennan's hierarchic romance structures and Gabrielle Roy's social realism to the metafictions of Hubert Aquin and Timothy Findley, the author reveals that the novel's narratological features themselves are often closely linked with ideological positions.