04295nam 2200721 a 450 991078375900332120230912135154.01-282-86088-797866128608810-7735-7074-810.1515/9780773570740(CKB)1000000000245016(SSID)ssj0000284080(PQKBManifestationID)11233553(PQKBTitleCode)TC0000284080(PQKBWorkID)10261046(PQKB)10168882(CaPaEBR)400170(CaBNvSL)gtp00521449 (Au-PeEL)EBL3330654(CaPaEBR)ebr10132836(CaONFJC)MIL286088(OCoLC)929120837(VaAlCD)20.500.12592/cs67w1(schport)gibson_crkn/2009-12-01/1/400170(MiAaPQ)EBC3330654(DE-B1597)656021(DE-B1597)9780773570740(MiAaPQ)EBC3243534(EXLCZ)99100000000024501620040506d2003 uy 0engurcn|||||||||txtccrSetting in the east[electronic resource] Maritime realist fiction /David CreelmanMontreal ;Ithaca McGill-Queen's University Pressc2003xii, 247 pIncludes index.0-7735-2478-9 Includes bibliographical references (p. [225]-239) and index.Front Matter -- Contents -- Acknowledgments -- Abbreviations -- Introduction -- Approaching the East: Transformations, Ideology, and Realism -- Realism with Reservations: Frank Parker Day, Hugh MacLennan, Thomas Head Raddall -- Between Realism and Nostalgia: Charles Bruce -- Conservative Laments: Ernest Buckler -- Writing in the Dusk: Alden Nowlan and Alistair MacLeod -- Hard Bargains: David Adams Richards -- Breaking Silence: Smyth, Bauer, Wilson, Corey, Coady, Bruneau, MacDonald -- Diverging Streams: Fiction at the End of the Century -- Realism’s Wake: A Conclusion -- Notes -- Bibliography -- IndexHe shows that realism arrived comparatively late to the Maritime provinces and argues that the emergence of a realist style corresponded with a dramatic period of economic and cultural disruption during which the Eastern provinces were transformed from one Canada's most developed, prosperous, and promising regions into one characterized by chronic underemployment and underdevelopment. The region is thus torn between its memory of an earlier, more traditional social order and its present experience as a modern industrial society. These tensions are embedded in the Maritime character and have affected not only the lives of its people but the imaginations and texts of its writers. The stories of Thomas Raddall, Hugh MacLennan, Charles Bruce, Ernest Buckler, Alden Nowlan, Alistair MacLeod, Donna Smyth, Budge Wilson, and David Adams Richards have been deeply influenced by the cultural shifts they have observed. In the last two decades a host of new literary voices has emerged, and Creelman also explores the works of such writers as Ann-Marie MacDonald, Lynn Coady, Nancy Bauer, Deborah Joy Corey, Carol Bruneau, Alan Wilson, Leo McKay, and Sheldon Currie. He shows that these Maritime artists share a common regional identity that shapes their narratives as they find their own paths through the tensions which envelop them.Canadian fictionMaritime ProvincesHistory and criticismAuthors, CanadianHomes and hauntsMaritime ProvincesCanadian fiction20th centuryHistory and criticismRealism in literatureMaritime ProvincesIntellectual lifeMaritime ProvincesIn literatureCanadian fictionHistory and criticism.Authors, CanadianHomes and hauntsCanadian fictionHistory and criticism.Realism in literature.813/.50912Creelman David Craig1962-1579618MiAaPQMiAaPQMiAaPQBOOK9910783759003321Setting in the east3859822UNINA