Canadian Postmodern : A Study of Contemporary Canadian Fiction, Reissue
ISBN: 9780199001798 | 0199001790
Edition: ReprintFormat: Paperback
Publisher: Oxford University Press, USA
Pub. Date: 1/13/2013
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The Canadian Postmodern examines the theory and practice of postmodernism as seen through both contemporary cultural theory and the writings of Audrey Thomas, Michael Ondaatje, Robert Kroetsch, Margaret Atwood, Timothy Findley, Jack Hodgins, Aritha van Herk, Leonard Cohen, Susan Swan, Clark Blaise, George Bowering, and others.
The postmodern novel was a surprisingly and often poorly understood phenomenon of the 1980s and 90s, in which many artists explored issues of how art represents the world. These works are cha... MORE
The postmodern novel was a surprisingly and often poorly understood phenomenon of the 1980s and 90s, in which many artists explored issues of how art represents the world. These works are cha... MORE
| Introduction to the Wynford Edition | |
| Preface | |
| Acknowledgements | |
| Introduction | |
| Caveat Lector: The Early Postmodernism of Leonard Cohen | |
| The Postmodernism Scribe: The Dynamic Stasis of Contemporary Canadian Writing | |
| Historiographic Metafiction | |
| The Postmodern Challenge to Boundaries | |
| 'Shape Shifters': Canadian Women Writers and the Tra... MORE | |
| Process, Produce, and Politics: The Postmodernism of Margaret Atwood | |
| Seeing Double: Concluding with Kroetsch | |
| Appendix: The Novel (1972-1984) from The Literary History of Canada, Vol. 4 | |
| Index | |
| Table of Contents provided by Publisher. All Rights Reserved. |
Linda Hutcheon, O.C., is a professor of English and of the Centre for Comparative Literature at the University of Toronto who has published in the fields of literary theory and criticism, opera, and Canadian Studies. In 2000 she was elected the 117th President of the Modern Language Association, the third Canadian to hold this position, and the first Canadian woman.
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