Isbn: 9781771123525 - avant canada: poets, prophets, revolutionaries (5 Ergebnisse)

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Kartoniert / Broschiert. Zustand: New. Presents a rich collection of original essays and creative works on a representative array of avant-garde literary movements in Canada from the past fifty years. From the work of Leonard Cohen and bpNichol to that of Jordan Abel and Liz Howard, Avant Canada.

Taschenbuch. Zustand: Neu. Neuware - Avant Canada presents a rich collection of original essays and creative works on a representative array of avant-garde literary movements in Canada from the past fifty years. From the work of Leonard Cohen and bpNichol to that of Jordan Abel and Liz Howard, Avant Canada features twenty-eight of the best writers and critics in the field.The book proposes four dominant modes of avant-garde production: ''Concrete Poetics,'' which accentuates the visual and material aspects of language; ''Language Writing,'' which challenges the interconnection between words and things; ''Identity Writing,'' which interrogates the self and its sociopolitical position; and ''Copyleft Poetics,'' which undermines our habitual assumptions about the ownership of expression. A fifth section commemorates the importance of the Centennial in the 1960s at a time when avant-garde cultures in Canada began to emerge.Readers of this book will become familiar with some of the most challenging works of literature - and their creators - that this country has ever produced. From Concrete Poetry in the 1960s through to Indigenous Literature in the 2010s, Avant Canada offers the most sweeping study of the literary avant-garde in Canada to date.…