Description
Book SynopsisAvant-Garde Canadian Literature offers an entrance into the vocabulary of the ongoing and primarily international debate surrounding the idea of avant-gardism, providing readers with a functional vocabulary for discussing some of the most hermetic and yet energetic literature ever produced in this country.
Trade Review'This book greatly advances our understanding of the experimental lan of Canada's avant-garde throughout the century, and provides insight into collaborative authorship, radical networks, and surrealist and automatist writing and painting.' -- Irene Gammel The Journal of Canadian Studies, vol 50:01:2016 'Betts' weaving of past and present, theory and literary practice, aesthetics and politics is carried out in a brilliant way.' -- Alessandra Capperdoni Canadian Literature Autumn 2014 'A fascinating work of scholarship, the book is an affront to the persistent belief that Canadian literature of the early twentieth century is a dreary subject. Betts has shown that in fact it is hardly comprehended...Avant-Garde Canadian Literature is an admirable and welcome contribution to the history and interpretation of literature in this country.' -- Nicholas Bradley The Bull Calf: Reviews in Fiction, Poetry, and Literary Criticism December 2015
Table of ContentsTable of Contents Introduction Chapter One: Theory of the Avant-Gardes in Canada Chapter Two: The Cosmic Canadians Chapter Three: Canadian Surrealism: The Automatists Chapter Four: Canadian Vorticism L'Envoi: The Future of the Avant Endnotes Works Cited Acknowledgments
