Avant-garde Canadian literature the early manifestations /

Betts, Gregory Brian, 1975-

Avant-garde Canadian literature the early manifestations / Gregory Betts. - Toronto ; Buffalo : University of Toronto Press, (c)2013. - 1 online resource (310 pages, 8. pages of plates) illustrations.

Includes bibliographies and index.

Introduction -- 1 Theory of the Avant-Gardes in Canada -- 2 The Cosmic Canadians -- 3 Canadian Surrealism: The Automatists -- 4 Canadian Vorticism -- L'Envoi: The Future of the Avant.

Avant-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.



9781442696907


Literature, Experimental--History and criticism.--Canada


Electronic Books.

PR9194 / .A936 2013