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The Canadian Modernists Meet

The Canadian Modernists Meet is a collection of new critical essays on major and rediscovered Canadian writers of the early to mid-twentieth century. F.R. Scott’s well-known poem ‘The Canadian Authors Meet’ sets the theme for the volume: a revisiting of English Canada’s formative movements in modernist poetry, fiction, and drama. As did Scott’s poem, Dean Irvine’s collection raises questions – about modernism and antimodernism, nationalism and antinationalism, gender and class, originality and influence – that remain central to contemporary research on early to mid-twentieth-century English Canadian literature. The Canadian Modernists Meet is the first collection of its kind: a gathering of texts by literary critics, textual editors, biographers, literary historians, and art historians whose collective research contributes to the study of modernism in Canada. The collection stages a major reassessment of the origins and development of modernist literature in Canada, its relationship to international modernist literature, its regional variations, its gender and class inflections, and its connections to visual art, architecture, and film. It presents a range of scholarly perspectives, drawing upon the multidisciplinarity that characterizes the international field of modernist studies.

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Dean Irvine

Dean Irvine is an assistant professor in the Department of English at Dalhousie University.

Chapter Title Contents Contributors Pages Year Price
Introduction 13 $1.17
In view of the central role that architecture has always played as an embodiment and signal of change in Western culture, it is scarcely, if at all, surprising that Canada’s modern poets … 42 $3.78
That the city is an essential component of literary modernism—as image, as site, as trope—has long been accepted in modernist studies. […]Yet, in the Canadian context of … 17 $1.53
During the early years of the century, Canadian women poets, including Sophia Hensley, Susan Frances Harrison, and Annie Charlotte Dalton, were expanding their thematic horizons but still writing … 21 $1.89
Sheila Watson’s work has been insightfully discussed in both modernist and postmodernist terms. This essay will aim to enhance our understanding of the influence of cosmopolitan modernism … 16 $1.44
Several of Smith’s poems of the 1930s and early 1940s, especially those published from 1934 to 1936 during the Surrealist craze in London, show his distinct attraction to Surrealist ideas … 20 $1.80
If the Anglo-modernism of Europe is a natural formation (a sinking island) or bodily condition (a colder eye) and the American variation is a "homemade" affair (recalling Ezra … 13 $1.17
There is no better measure of the ambiguity surrounding Canadian modernism than the fact that the only uncontested understanding shared by critics on the matter is an almost universal familiarity … 25 $2.25
On the one hand, the Depression era produced a theatrical encounter between modernism and socialism on stages organized by the Canadian left. On the other hand, this convergence catalyzed … 24 $2.16
When radio programming began in the early 1920s, radio’s disembodied voice suggested to the public a live announcer’s or entertainer’s spatial proximity yet simultaneously drew … 24 $2.16
The centrality of archives to the process of literary biography is undeniable. Archives must be plumbed and it is only when every relevant archive with respect to a subject has been mined that … 19 $1.71
Critics have often called Sinclair Ross’s As For Me and My House a pivotal text in our literature. […] Ross’s novel has certainly been the subject of some of Canada’s most … 22 $1.98
It is is because of their gender-inflected approach to the world, the body, and systems of signs that both were led to question the poetics of impersonality and the aesthetics of purity of their … 29 $2.61
This essay,[…], seeks to restore temporal being and representation as the real issues of The Mountain and the Valley. 26 $2.34
Oppositional pairs—the imagist partnering of subject and object, and a more psychologically oriented one of emotion and reason—are both central to the poem. Through them, … 23 $2.07