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Record Nr.

UNINA9910792857203321

Autore

Atwood Margaret

Titolo

The Burgess Shale : the Canadian writing landscape of the 1960s / / Margaret Atwood

Pubbl/distr/stampa

Edmonton, Alberta : , : The University of Alberta Press, , 2017

©2017

ISBN

1-77212-306-4

1-77212-304-8

Edizione

[1st ed.]

Descrizione fisica

1 online resource (59 pages) : illustrations, photographs

Collana

CLC Kreisel Lecture Series

Disciplina

810.90054

Soggetti

Canadian literature - 20th century - History and criticism

Nineteen sixties - Intellectual life

Lingua di pubblicazione

Inglese

Formato

Materiale a stampa

Livello bibliografico

Monografia

Sommario/riassunto

"Margaret Atwood considers the Canadian literary landscape of the 1960s to be like the Burgess Shale, a geological formation that contains the fossils of many weird and strange early life forms, different from but not unrelated to contemporary writerly ones. The Burgess Shale is not all about writerly pursuits, though. Atwood also gives readers some insight into the fashions and foibles of the times. Her recollections and anecdotes offer a wry and often humorous look at the early days of the institutions taken for granted today--from writers' unions and grant programs to book tours and festivals."--