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