03873nam 2200745 450 991045644910332120200520144314.01-282-02838-397866120283801-4426-8369-410.3138/9781442683693(CKB)2420000000004564(EBL)4672274(SSID)ssj0000313698(PQKBManifestationID)11220246(PQKBTitleCode)TC0000313698(PQKBWorkID)10363501(PQKB)10225976(CaPaEBR)417838(CaBNvSL)thg00600534(MiAaPQ)EBC3250374(MiAaPQ)EBC4672274(DE-B1597)465137(OCoLC)944177193(DE-B1597)9781442683693(Au-PeEL)EBL4672274(CaPaEBR)ebr11257948(OCoLC)958571887(EXLCZ)99242000000000456420160922h19981998 uy 0engur|n|---|||||txtccrWorrying the nation imagining a national literature in English Canada /Jonathan Kertzer74th ed.Toronto, [Ontario] ;Buffalo, [New York] ;London, [England] :University of Toronto Press,1998.©19981 online resource (256 p.)Theory / CultureDescription based upon print version of record.0-8020-4303-8 Includes bibliographical references and index.Frontmatter -- Contents -- Acknowledgments -- 1. National + Literary + History -- 2. The National Ghost -- 3. Nation Building -- 4. The Nation as Monster -- 5. Worrying the Nation -- Notes -- Works Cited -- Credits and Permissions -- Index How can a national literature in English-Canada be possible if Canadians cannot agree on who we are? This is the central question that Jonathan Kertzer 'worries' over in his book, Worrying the Nation: Imagining a National Literature in English Canada. The book is a critical fretting over the possibility of a national literature when the very idea of the nation as a viable conceptual/literary category has been called into question.Kertzer begins the book with survey of three competing discourses - literature, nation, and history - and how they converge and diverge. He then examines Herder's and Hegel's legacy of romantic historicism as it has affected Canadian literature. To illustrate his worry over national literature, he presents an analysis of some flawed attempts at poetic nation-building, specifically in Oliver Goldsmith's The Rising Village, E.J. Pratt's Towards the Last Spike, and Dennis Lee's Civil Elegies. In addition to these examples, Kertzer shows that alternative models of sociability are presented in the recent fiction of Joy Kogawa and Daphne Marlatt.Worrying the Nation is very much a tract for these turbulent times. Jonathan Kertzer has produced a highly sophisticated analysis of Canadian literary writing and its role in national culture.Theory/culture series.Canadian literatureHistory and criticismNational characteristics, Canadian, in literatureNationalism and literatureCanadaNationalism in literatureElectronic books.Canadian literatureHistory and criticism.National characteristics, Canadian, in literature.Nationalism and literatureNationalism in literature.810.9/358Kertzer Jonathan1946-324610MiAaPQMiAaPQMiAaPQBOOK9910456449103321Worrying the nation2455858UNINA