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Unreal Country : Modernity in the Canadian Novel in English

By Glenn Willmott

Book information

Publisher
McGill-Queen's University Press
Year
2002
ISBN
9780773570344, 9780773523968
Language
english
Format
PDF
Filesize
7 MB (6919783 bytes)
Edition
1
Pages
244\244
Time added
2023-08-12 03:51:30

Description

Modernism is one of the great manifold movements in literature and the arts. Responding with magnificent independence to inherited values and tastes, and with radical novelty to the future, varieties of modernism anxiously express both the ends of the Enlightenment and the beginnings of Postmodernism, and thus the feeling of a crisis that continues to haunt contemporary life. Modernity in Canada, stretching from the turn of the century to the 1950s, is a period marked by unprecedented urban and industrial growth, by urban and rural immigration from around the world, and by unique changes in power between regions, classes, races, and sexes. At the same time it is a period profoundly aware of the colonial past and its persistence, for good or ill, in the fragile economy and volatile culture of a new nation.

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