Modern Realism in English-Canadian Fiction

by University of Toronto Press and Colin Hill

Much of the scholarship on twentieth-century Canadian literature has argued that English-Canadian fiction was plagued by backwardness and an inability to engage fully with the movement of modernism that was so prevalent in British and American fiction and poetry. Modern Realism in English-Canadian Fiction re-evaluates Canadian literary culture to posit that it has been misunderstood because it is a distinct genre, a regional form of the larger...

• Format: Hardcover
• Language: English
• ISBN: 1442640561
• ISBN13: 9781442640566
• Release Date: May 2012
• Publisher: University of Toronto Press
• Length: 304 Pages
• Weight: 1.29 lbs.
• Dimensions: 1.0" x 6.3" x 9.3"