Much of the scholarship on twentieth-century Canadian literature
has argued that English-Canadian fiction was plagued by
backwardness and an inability to engage fully with the movement of
modernism that was so prevalent in British and American fiction and
poetry. Modern Realism in English-Canadian Fiction re-evaluates
Canadian literary culture to posit that it has been misunderstood
because it is a distinct genre, a regional form of the larger
international modernist movement.Examining literary magazines,
manifestos, archival documents, and major writers such as Frederick
Philip Grove, Morley Callaghan, and Raymond Knister, Colin Hill
identifies a 'modern realism' that crosses regions as well as urban
and rural divides. A bold reading of the modern-realist aesthetic
and an articulate challenge to several enduring and limiting myths
about Canadian writing, Modern Realism in English- Canadian Fiction
will stimulate important debate in literary circles everywhere.
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