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 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.

Published in English.

Author: Dean Irvine
Publisher: University of Ottawa Press
Published: 07/12/2005
Pages: 300
Binding Type: Paperback
Weight: 1.13lbs
Size: 9.00h x 6.00w x 0.79d
ISBN: 9780776605999

Review Citation(s):
Choice 02/01/2006 pg. 1013

About the Author

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