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The Fiddlehead Moment - Pioneering an Alternative Canadian Modernism in New Brunswick (Paperback)
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The Fiddlehead Moment - Pioneering an Alternative Canadian Modernism in New Brunswick (Paperback)
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For many Canadians, the small province of New Brunswick on Canada's
scenic east coast is "a nice place to visit but no place to live,"
plagued for generations by outmigration and economic stagnation. In
The Fiddlehead Moment Tony Tremblay challenges this potent
stereotype by showcasing the work of a group of literary modernists
who set out to change the meaning of New Brunswick in the national
lexicon. Alfred Bailey, Desmond Pacey, Fred Cogswell, and a
formidable group of local poets and cultural workers -
collectively, New Brunswick's Fiddlehead School - sought to restore
New Brunswick's literary reputation by adapting avant-garde
modernist practices to the contours of the province, opening it to
the contemporary world while also encouraging writers to make it
their subject. The result was a non-urban form of modernism that
was as responsive to technical innovation as to the human
geographies of New Brunswick. By placing New Brunswick writers and
critics at the forefront of Canadian literature in the midcentury
modernist project, Tremblay adds an important new chapter to our
understanding of Canadian modernism. The Fiddlehead Moment is the
first critical examination of this group's considerable influence.
Whether through Bailey's ethnomethodology, Pacey's critical
ordering, or Cogswell's editorial eclecticism in the Fiddlehead
magazine and Fiddlehead Poetry Books, authors in New Brunswick,
Tremblay argues, had a profound impact on writing in Canada.
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