LEADER 03823nam 2200805 450 001 9910819919003321 005 20230912132916.0 010 $a1-282-02838-3 010 $a9786612028380 010 $a1-4426-8369-4 024 7 $a10.3138/9781442683693 035 $a(CKB)2420000000004564 035 $a(EBL)4672274 035 $a(SSID)ssj0000313698 035 $a(PQKBManifestationID)11220246 035 $a(PQKBTitleCode)TC0000313698 035 $a(PQKBWorkID)10363501 035 $a(PQKB)10225976 035 $a(CaPaEBR)417838 035 $a(CaBNvSL)thg00600534 035 $a(DE-B1597)465137 035 $a(OCoLC)944177193 035 $a(DE-B1597)9781442683693 035 $a(Au-PeEL)EBL4672274 035 $a(CaPaEBR)ebr11257948 035 $a(OCoLC)958571887 035 $a(OCoLC)815766942 035 $a(MdBmJHUP)musev2_105557 035 $a(VaAlCD)20.500.12592/wmr4d1 035 $a(schport)gibson_crkn/2009-12-01/6/417838 035 $a(MiAaPQ)EBC4672274 035 $a(MiAaPQ)EBC3250374 035 $a(EXLCZ)992420000000004564 100 $a20160922h19981998 uy 0 101 0 $aeng 135 $aur|n|---||||| 181 $ctxt 182 $cc 183 $acr 200 10$aWorrying the nation $eimagining a national literature in English Canada /$fJonathan Kertzer 205 $a74th ed. 210 1$aToronto, [Ontario] ;$aBuffalo, [New York] ;$aLondon, [England] :$cUniversity of Toronto Press,$d1998. 210 4$dİ1998 215 $a1 online resource (256 p.) 225 1 $aTheory / Culture 300 $aDescription based upon print version of record. 311 $a0-8020-4303-8 320 $aIncludes bibliographical references and index. 327 $g1.$tNational + Literary + History --$g2.$tThe National Ghost --$g3.$tNation Building --$g4.$tThe Nation as Monster --$g5.$tWorrying the Nation. 330 1 $a"Worrying the Nation is a critical fretting about the possibility of a national literature in Canada at a time when the very idea of the nation as a viable conceptual/literary category has been called into question." "Jonathan Kertzer stakes out the theoretical ground where three competing discourses (national + literary + history) intersect. He shows how the legacy of Herder and Hegel's romantic historicism both inspired and baffled literary historians in English Canada, who found their fragmentary country unsuited to the romantic model. Kertzer illustrates this difficulty in an analysis of three flawed attempts at poetic nation-buildingOliver Goldsmith's The Rising Village, E.J. Pratt's Towards the Last Spike, and Dennis Lee's Civil Elegies - then shows how disillusionment among more recent critics and writers has led to new models of sociability, as reflected in the novels of Joy Kogawa and Daphne Marlatt. Finally, Kertzer argues that while the nation remains an inevitable category of both political and literary thought, it must be used subtly and self-critically to articulate the 'motley space' of a national life."--Jacket. 410 0$aTheory/culture series. 606 $aCanadian literature$xHistory and criticism 606 $aNational characteristics, Canadian, in literature 606 $aNationalism and literature$zCanada 606 $aNationalism in literature 607 $aEnglisch$2swd 607 $aKanada$2gnd 615 0$aCanadian literature$xHistory and criticism. 615 0$aNational characteristics, Canadian, in literature. 615 0$aNationalism and literature 615 0$aNationalism in literature. 676 $a810.9/358 700 $aKertzer$b Jonathan$f1946-$0324610 801 0$bMiAaPQ 801 1$bMiAaPQ 801 2$bMiAaPQ 906 $aBOOK 912 $a9910819919003321 996 $aWorrying the nation$93980241 997 $aUNINA