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Tremblay, Tony

 
9780773559080: The Fiddlehead Moment: Pioneering an Alternative Canadian Modernism in New Brunswick
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ISBN 10 : 0773559086 ISBN 13 : 9780773559080
Editeur : McGill-Queen's University Press, 2019

Synopsis

For many Canadians, the small province of New Brunswick on Canada's scenic east coast is "a nice place to visit but no place to live," plagued for generations by outmigration and economic stagnation. In The Fiddlehead Moment Tony Tremblay challenges this potent stereotype by showcasing the work of a group of literary modernists who set out to change the meaning of New Brunswick in the national lexicon. Alfred Bailey, Desmond Pacey, Fred Cogswell, and a formidable group of local poets and cultural workers - collectively, New Brunswick's Fiddlehead School - sought to restore New Brunswick's literary reputation by adapting avant-garde modernist practices to the contours of the province, opening it to the contemporary world while also encouraging writers to make it their subject. The result was a non-urban form of modernism that was as responsive to technical innovation as to the human geographies of New Brunswick. By placing New Brunswick writers and critics at the forefront of Canadian literature in the midcentury modernist project, Tremblay adds an important new chapter to our understanding of Canadian modernism. The Fiddlehead Moment is the first critical examination of this group's considerable influence. Whether through Bailey's ethnomethodology, Pacey's critical ordering, or Cogswell's editorial eclecticism in the Fiddlehead magazine and Fiddlehead Poetry Books, authors in New Brunswick, Tremblay argues, had a profound impact on writing in Canada.

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À propos de l'auteur

Tony Tremblay is professor of English at St Thomas University.

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Éditeur
McGill-Queen's University Press
Date d'édition
2019
Langue
anglais
ISBN 10 
0773559086
ISBN 13 
9780773559080
Reliure
Broché
Nombre de pages
344
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Personne responsable
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