Modern Realism in English-Canadian Fiction

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 international modernist movement.

Examining literary magazines, manifestos, archival documents, and major writers such as Frederick Philip Grove, Morley Callaghan, and Raymond Knister, Colin Hill identifies a 'modern realism' that crosses regions as well as urban and rural divides. A bold reading of the modern-realist aesthetic and an articulate challenge to several enduring and limiting myths about Canadian writing, Modern Realism in English- Canadian Fiction will stimulate important debate in literary circles everywhere.

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Modern Realism in English-Canadian Fiction

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 international modernist movement.

Examining literary magazines, manifestos, archival documents, and major writers such as Frederick Philip Grove, Morley Callaghan, and Raymond Knister, Colin Hill identifies a 'modern realism' that crosses regions as well as urban and rural divides. A bold reading of the modern-realist aesthetic and an articulate challenge to several enduring and limiting myths about Canadian writing, Modern Realism in English- Canadian Fiction will stimulate important debate in literary circles everywhere.

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Modern Realism in English-Canadian Fiction

by Colin Hill
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Modern Realism in English-Canadian Fiction

Modern Realism in English-Canadian Fiction

by Colin Hill

Overview

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 international modernist movement.

Examining literary magazines, manifestos, archival documents, and major writers such as Frederick Philip Grove, Morley Callaghan, and Raymond Knister, Colin Hill identifies a 'modern realism' that crosses regions as well as urban and rural divides. A bold reading of the modern-realist aesthetic and an articulate challenge to several enduring and limiting myths about Canadian writing, Modern Realism in English- Canadian Fiction will stimulate important debate in literary circles everywhere.

Product Details

ISBN-13: 9781442664913
Publisher: University of Toronto Press
Publication date: 05/07/2012
Sold by: Barnes & Noble
Format: eBook
Pages: 304
File size: 2 MB

About the Author

Colin Hill is an associate professor in the Department of English at the University of Toronto.

Table of Contents

Acknowledgments

  1. The Modern-Realist Movement: Contexts, Aesthetics, Origins
  2. Manifestos for a Modern Realism: Canadian Bookman and The Canadian Forum of the 1920s
  3. Raymond Knister: Revolutionary Modern Realist
  4. The Proliferation of Modern Realism in Canada, Part 1: Prairie Realism Re-evaluated
  5. Frederick Philip Grove’s Eclectic Realism and ‘The Great Tradition’
  6. The Proliferation of Modern Realism in Canada, Part 2: Urban and Social Realism Reclaimed
  7. Morley Callaghan’s Cosmopolitan Modern Realism
  8. Modern Realism and Canadian Literature

Notes
Bibliography

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Paul Hjartarson

A major contribution to research, Modern Realism in English-Canadian Fiction provides a strong analysis of an issue central to twentieth-century Canadian literature: how Canadian writers took up the opportunities and challenges offered by the international modernist movement. Colin Hill's thoughtful, balanced account emphasizes his skills in weighing evidence, teasing out arguments, and anticipating possible rejoinders, as well as his excellent grasp of the period's literature. Whether readers agree with Hill, scholars and students will be citing Modern Realism in English-Canadian Fiction for years to come.

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