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What is the relationship between literature and the society in
which it incubates? Are there common political, social, and
economic factors that predominate during periods of heightened
literary activity? New Brunswick at the Crossroads: Literary
Ferment and Social Change in the East considers these questions and
explores the relationships between periods of creative ferment in
New Brunswick and the socio-cultural conditions of those times. The
province's literature is ideally suited to such a study because of
its bicultural character--in both English and French, periods of
intense literary creativity occurred at different times and for
different reasons. What emerges is a cultural geography in New
Brunswick that has existed not in isolation from the rest of Canada
but often at the creative forefront of imagined alternatives in
identity and citizenship. At a time when cultural industries are
threatened by forces that seek to negate difference and impose
uniformity, New Brunswick at the Crossroads provides an
understanding of the intersection of cultures and social economies,
contributing to critical discussions about what constitutes "the
creative" in Canadian society, especially in rural, non-central
spaces like New Brunswick.
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Fright Train (Hardcover)
Tony Tremblay, Charles R. Rutledge, Scott T Goudsward
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R818
Discovery Miles 8 180
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Fright Train (Paperback)
Tony Tremblay, Charles R. Rutledge, Scott T Goudsward
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R496
Discovery Miles 4 960
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A Variable Darkness (Paperback)
John McIlveen; Introduction by Tony Tremblay; Afterword by Izzy Lee
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R533
Discovery Miles 5 330
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Slices (Paperback)
Dan Brereton; Introduction by Tony Tremblay; James A. Moore
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R469
Discovery Miles 4 690
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The Moore House (Hardcover)
Tony Tremblay; Introduction by Bracken MacLeod; Cover design or artwork by Dyer Wilk
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R791
Discovery Miles 7 910
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The Moore House (Paperback)
Bracken MacLeod; Illustrated by Dyer Wilk; Tony Tremblay
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R515
Discovery Miles 5 150
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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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