Arrival : the story of CanLit

Título
Arrival : the story of CanLit

Nicholas J. Mount

Resumen
"In the mid-twentieth century, Canadian literature was transformed from a largely ignored trickle of books into an enormous cultural phenomenon that produced Margaret Atwood, Alice Munro, Michael Ondaatje, and Mordecai Richler, and so many others. In Arrival, acclaimed writer and critic Nick Mount answers the question: What caused the CanLit Boom?".

Fecha de publicación como intervalo
2017

Descripción física
373 pages, 32 unnumbered pages of plates : illustrations ; 24 cm

Contenido
Surfacing -- Beautiful losers -- Fifth business -- The national dream -- The diviners -- The double hook -- The Torontonians -- Understanding media -- Procedures for underground -- New wave Canada -- The boat who wouldn't float -- The new Romans -- Cocksure -- George, Vancouver -- Next episode -- In Hardy country -- Lives of girls and women -- Civil elegies.

Término de la materia
Canadian literature -- 20th century -- History and criticism.
 
Canadian literature.

Síntesis
"In the mid-twentieth century, Canadian literature was transformed from a largely ignored trickle of books into an enormous cultural phenomenon that produced Margaret Atwood, Alice Munro, Michael Ondaatje, and Mordecai Richler, and so many others. In Arrival, acclaimed writer and critic Nick Mount answers the question: What caused the CanLit Boom?".

ISBN
9781770892217

Información de publicación
[Toronto] : Anansi, 2017.


BibliotecaSignatura topográficaTipo de materialCódigo de barras del documentoEstado
Edmonton Christian High810.9 MOUBook30905000104848Non-Fiction