The Canadian Modernists Meet

by Irvine, Dean

• ISBN13: 9780776605999
• ISBN10: 0776605992
• Format: Paperback
• Copyright: 2005-07-30
• Publisher: Univ of Ottawa Pr

Summary

The Canadian Modernists Meetis 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 Meetis 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.

Author Biography

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

Table of Contents

Contributors	ix
Acknowledgments	xiii
Introduction
DEAN IRVINE	1	(16)
North of Modernism: Montreal Toronto Unreal
"New Styles of Architecture, a Change of Heart"? The Architexts of A.M. Klein and F.R. Scott
D.M.R. BENTLEY	17	(42)
Mapping Raymond Souster's Toronto
STEPHEN CAIN	59	(20)
Native, Cosmopolitan, Post-Cosmopolitan
Moonlight and Morning: Women's Early Contribution to Canadian Modernism
WANDA CAMPBELL	79	(22)
Sheila Watson, Aboriginal Discourse, and Cosmopolitan Modernism
GLENN WILLMOTT	101	(18)
Eclectic Travellers: From Peterborough to Paris
A.J.M. Smith's Eclectic Surrealism
BRIAN TREHEARNE	119	(20)
Samizdat Odyssey: Ulysses above the 42nd Parallel
TIM CONLEY	139	(14)
"a widening of the northern coterie": The Cross-Border Cultural Politics of Ezra Pound, Marshall McLuhan, and Louis Dudek
TONY TREMBLAY	153	(28)
Political Bodies: Stages and Stations, Casts and Broadcasts
Modernism's Red Stage: Theatre and the Left in the 1930's
CANDIDA RIFKIND	181	(24)
Dorothy Livesay, the "Housewife," and the Radio in 1951: Modernist Embodiments of Audience
PAUL TIESSEN	205	(26)
Modernism's Archives and Ledgers
The Literary Archive and the Telling of Modernist Lives: Retrieving Anne Marriott
MARILYN ROSE	231	(20)
As for Me and My Blueprint: Sinclair Ross's Debt to Arthur Stringer
COLIN HILL	251	(24)
Beyond Impersonality
Elizabeth Smart and Cecil Buller: Engendering Experimental Modernism
ANNE QUEMA	275	(30)
The Hunger To Be Seen: The Mountain and the Valley's Modernist New Eyes
MEDRIE PURDHAM	305	(26)
Canadian Modernism, P.K. Page's "Arras," and the Idea of the Emotions
SHELLEY HULAN	331	(24)
Index	355