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By Richard J. Lane

ISBN-10: 0415470463

ISBN-13: 9780415470469

The Routledge Concise heritage of Canadian Literature introduces the fiction, poetry and drama of Canada in its ancient, political and cultural contexts.

In this transparent and based quantity, Richard Lane outlines:

  • the historical past of Canadian literature from colonial instances to the current
  • key texts for Canadian First Peoples and the literature of Quebec
  • the impression of English translation, and the Canadian immigrant adventure
  • critical topics reminiscent of panorama, ethnicity, orality, textuality, struggle and nationhood
  • contemporary debate at the canon, feminism, postcoloniality, queer conception, and cultural and ethnic variety
  • the paintings of canonical and lesser-known writers from Catherine Parr Traill and Susanna Moodie to Robert provider, Maria Campbell and Douglas Coupland.

Written in a fascinating and obtainable kind and delivering a word list, maps and extra examining sections, this guidebook is a vital source for college kids operating within the box of Canadian Literature.

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Leprohon suggests that if the visitor stays in Canada long enough not only \l'lill she "rail at our winters then no more", but "New health and fresh life through your veins shall glow, 1 Spite of piercing winds, spite of ice and snow" (quoted in Dewart, 160).

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He argues that because Canada's immigrants are still emotionally attached to their original homelands, Canadian literary production does not, and cannot, laya claim to their affections. This is partly due to an Literatures of landscape and encounter 23 idealization of that which is now distant and old (the original overseas homeland and its literature), leading to a lack of interest and attraction in that which is new, familiar and "near" (xv). AIso, Dewart suggests that it is easier for people to subscribe to the critical consensus, whereby the established mainly European canon is what has attracted most praise, so must therefore be most praiseworthy.

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