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Arrival: the story of CanLit

By Mount , Nicholas James

Book information

Publisher
House of Anansi Press Inc
ISBN
9781770892217, 9781770892224, 9781487002183, 1770892222
Language
english
Format
EPUB
Filesize
10 MB (9969404 bytes)
Pages
(373 pages, 32 unnumbered pages of plates) : illus
Time added
2020-07-26 19:24:52
Canadian literature;Canadian literature--20th centetc.;Canadian literature -- 20th century -- Historinterpretation

Description

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.;"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?"--

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