Unreal country : modernity in the Canadian novel in English / / Glenn Willmott

• Autore: Willmott Glenn <1963->
• Pubblicazione: Montréal ; ; Ithaca, : McGill-Queen's University Press, c2002
• Edizione: 1st ed.
• Descrizione fisica: 236 p. : ill
• Disciplina: 813/.509112
• Soggetto topico: Canadian fiction - 20th century - History and criticism; Modernism (Literature) - Canada
• Note generali: Bibliographic Level Mode of Issuance: Monograph
• Nota di bibliografia: Includes bibliographical references and index.
• Nota di contenuto: Front Matter -- Contents -- Acknowledgments -- A Utopia of the Common Type -- Genre: Modernism and the Bildungsroman -- Style: The Disfiguring of Development -- Gender: The Feminization of History -- Region: The Invisible City and the Abstract Empire -- A Withdrawal of Fortune -- Notes -- Index
• Sommario/riassunto: Modernism is one of the great manifold movements in literature and the arts. Responding with magnificent independence to inherited values and tastes, and with radical novelty to the future, varieties of modernism anxiously express both the ends of the Enlightenment and the beginnings of Postmodernism, and thus the feeling of a crisis that continues to haunt contemporary life. Modernity in Canada, stretching from the turn of the century to the 1950s, is a period marked by unprecedented urban and industrial growth, by urban and rural immigration from around the world, and by unique changes in power between regions, classes, races, and sexes. At the same time it is a period profoundly aware of the colonial past and its persistence, for good or ill, in the fragile economy and volatile culture of a new nation.
• Titolo autorizzato: Unreal country
• ISBN: 1-282-86057-7; 9786612860577; 0-7735-7034-9
• Formato: Materiale a stampa
• Livello bibliografico: Monografia
• Lingua di pubblicazione: Inglese
• Record Nr.: 9910824783503321
• Lo trovi qui: Univ. Federico II