{"product_id":"avantgarde-canadian-literature-9781442643772","title":"AvantGarde Canadian Literature","description":"\u003cb\u003eBook Synopsis\u003c\/b\u003e\u003cbr\u003eAvant-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.\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eTrade Review\u003c\/b\u003e\u003cbr\u003e'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\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eTable of Contents\u003c\/b\u003e\u003cbr\u003eTable of Contents    Introduction\t     Chapter One: Theory of the Avant-Gardes in Canada\t     Chapter Two: The Cosmic Canadians\t     Chapter Three: Canadian Surrealism: The Automatists\t     Chapter Four: Canadian Vorticism\t     L'Envoi: The Future of the Avant    Endnotes\t     Works Cited\t     Acknowledgments","brand":"University of Toronto Press","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":49408365822295,"sku":"9781442643772","price":46.75,"currency_code":"GBP","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0817\/1739\/5799\/files\/9781442643772.jpg?v=1730502633","url":"https:\/\/bookcurl.com\/products\/avantgarde-canadian-literature-9781442643772","provider":"Book Curl","version":"1.0","type":"link"}