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    The Routledge concise history of Canadian literature / Richard J. Lane.

    • Title:The Routledge concise history of Canadian literature / Richard J. Lane.
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    • Author/Creator:Lane, Richard J., 1966-
    • Published/Created:Milton Park, Abingdon, Oxon ; New York : Routledge, 2011.
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    • Library of Congress Subjects:Canadian literature--History and criticism.
      French-Canadian literature--History and criticism.
    • Edition:1st ed.
    • Description:xv, 249 pages : maps ; 24 cm.
    • Series:Routledge concise histories of literature series.
    • Summary:"<EM>The Routledge Concise History of Canadian Literature</EM> introduces the fiction, poetry and drama of Canada in its historical, political and cultural contexts. In this clear and structured volume, Richard Lane outlines:<UL><LI>the history of Canadian literature from colonial times to the present</LI><LI>key texts for Canadian First Peoples and the literature of Quebec</LI><LI>the impact of English translation, regional literatures, and the Canadian immigrant experience. </LI><LI>critical themes such as landscape, ethnicity, orality, textuality, war and nationhood </LI><LI>contemporary debate on the canon, feminism, postcoloniality, queer theory, and cultural and ethnic diversity</LI><LI>the work of canonical and lesser-known writers from Catherine Parr and Susan Moodie to Robert Service, Maria Campbell and Douglas Copeland.</LI></UL>Written in an engaging and accessible style and offering a glossary, maps and annotated further reading sections, this guidebook is a crucial resource for students working in the field of Canadian Literature"-- Provided by publisher.
      "The Routledge Concise History of Canadian Literature introduces the fiction, poetry and drama of Canada in its historical, political and cultural contexts. In this clear and structured volume, Richard Lane outlines: - the history of Canadian literature from colonial times to the present - key texts for Canadian First Peoples and the literature of Quebec - the impact of English translation, regional literatures, and the Canadian immigrant experience. - critical themes such as landscape, ethnicity, orality, textuality, war and nationhood - contemporary debate on the canon, feminism, postcoloniality, queer theory, and cultural and ethnic diversity - the work of canonical and lesser-known writers from Catherine Parr and Susan Moodie to Robert Service, Maria Campbell and Douglas Copeland. Written in an engaging and accessible style and offering a glossary, maps and annotated further reading sections, this guidebook is a crucial resource for students working in the field of Canadian Literature"-- Provided by publisher.
    • Notes:Includes bibliographical references and index.
    • ISBN:9780415470452 (hardback)
      9780415470469 (paperback)
      9780203829585 (e-book)
    • Contents:Introduction : first peoples and the Colonial narratives of Canadian literature
      Literatures of landscape and encounter : Canadian romanticism and pastoral writing
      A new nation : prose fiction and the rise of the Canadian novel during the eighteenth and nineteenth centuries
      In Flanders Fields : gender and social transformation in the first and second world wars
      Canadian modernism, 1914-1960 : "a journey across Canada"
      Feminist literatures : new poetics of identities and sexualities from the 1960s to the twenty-first century
      Contemporary Indigenous literatures : narratives of autonomy and resistance
      Canadian postmodernism : genre trouble and new media in contemporary Canadian writing
      Concluding with postcolonial imagination : diversity difference and ethnicity
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