History of literature in Canada : English-Canadian and French-Canadian

Author(s)

• Nischik, Reingard M.

Bibliographic Information

History of literature in Canada : English-Canadian and French-Canadian

edited by Reingard M. Nischik

（European studies in American literature and culture / edited by Reingard M. Nischik）

Camden House, 2008

Note

Bibliography: p. [519]-544

Includes index

Description and Table of Contents

Description

The development of literature in Canada with an eye to its multicultural, multiethnic, multilingual nature. From modest colonial beginnings, literature in Canada has arrived at the center stage of world literature. Works by English-Canadian writers -- both established writers such as Margaret Atwood and new talents such as Yann Martel -- make regular appearances on international bestseller lists. French-Canadian literature has also found its own voice in the North American and francophone worlds. "CanLit" has likewise developed into a staple of academic interest, pursued in Canadian Studies programs in Canada and around the world. This volume draws on the expertise of scholars from Canada, Germany, Austria, and France, tracing Canadian literature from the indigenous oral tradition to thedevelopment of English-Canadian and French-Canadian literature since colonial times. Conceiving of Canada as a single but multifaceted culture, it accounts for specific characteristics of English- and French-Canadian literatures,such as the vital role of the short story in English Canada or that of the chanson in French Canada. Yet special attention is also paid to Aboriginal literature and to the pronounced transcultural, ethnically diverse character ofmuch contemporary Canadian literature, thus moving clearly beyond the traditions of the two founding nations. Contributors: Reingard M. Nischik, Eva Gruber, Iain M. Higgins, Guy Lafleche, Dorothee Scholl, Gwendolyn Davies, Tracy Ware, Fritz Peter Kirsch, Julia Breitbach, Lorraine York, Marta Dvorak, Jerry Wasserman, Ursula Mathis-Moser, Doris G. Eibl, Rolf Lohse, Sherrill Grace, Caroline Rosenthal, Martin Kuester, Nicholas Bradley, Anne Nothof, Georgiana Banita, Gilles Dupuis, and Andrea Oberhuber. Reingard M. Nischik is Professor of American Literature at the University of Constance, Germany.

Table of Contents

Introduction: Writing a History of Literature in Canada - Reingard M. Nischik Aboriginal Oral Traditions - Eva Gruber The Whites Arrive: White Writing before Canada, 1000-1600 - Ian M. Higgins Historical Background - Guy Lafleche Literature on New France - Guy Lafleche Colonial Literature in New France - Guy Lafleche Historical Overview - Dorothee Scholl English-Canadian Colonial Literature - Gwendolyn Davies French-Canadian Colonial Literature under the Union Jack - Dorothee Scholl English-Canadian Literature, 1867-1918: The Making of a Nation - Tracy Ware French-Canadian Literature from National Soladarity to the Ecole litteraire de Montreal - Fritz Peter Kirsch Politics and Literature between Nationalism and Internationalism - Julia Breitbach English-Canadian Poetry, 1920-1960 - Lorraine York The English-Canadian Novel and the Displacement of the Romance - Marta Dvorak The Modernist English-Canadian Short Story - Reingard M. Nischik Early English-Canadian Theater and Drama - Jerry Wasserman French Canada from the First World War to 1967: Historical Overview - Ursula Mathis-Moser French-Canadian Poetry up to the 1960s - Ursula Mathis-Moser The French-Canadian Novel between Tradition and Modernism - Doris G. Eibl The French-Canadian Short Story - Doris G. Eibl French-Canadian Drama from the 1930s to the Revolution tranquille - Dorothee Scholl Socio-Political and Cultural Developments from 1967 to the Present - Sherrill Grace English-Canadian Literary Theory and Literary Criticism - Caroline Rosenthal The English-Canadian Novel from Modernism to Postmodernism - Martin Kuester The English-Canadian Short Story since 1967: Between (Post)Modernism and (Neo)Realism - Reingard M. Nischik English-Canadian Poetry from 1967 to the Present - Nicholas Bradley Contemporary English-Canadian Drama and Theater - Anne Nothof Canons of Diversity in Contemporary English-Canadian Literature - Georgiana Banita Literature of the First Nations, Inuit, and Metis - Eva Gruber The Quebec Novel - Doris G. Eibl The French-Canadian Short Prose Narrative - Doris G. Eibl French-Canadian Poetry from 1967 to the Present - Ursula Mathis-Moser Orality and the French-Canadian Chanson - Ursula Mathis-Moser Drama and Theater from the Revolution tranquille to the Present - Dorothee Scholl Transculturalism and ecritures migrantes - Gilles Dupuis The Institutionalization of Literature in Quebec - Andrea Oberhuber

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Details

• NCID: BA89289299
• ISBN:
  • 9781571133595
• LCCN: 2008025359
• Country Code: us
• Title Language Code: eng
• Text Language Code: eng
• Place of Publication: Rochester, N.Y.
• Pages/Volumes: xii, 605 p.
• Size: 24 cm
• Classification:
  • LCC : PR9184.3
  • DC22 : 810.9
• Subject Headings:
  • LCSH : Canadian literature -- History and criticism
  • LCSH : French-Canadian literature -- History and criticism
  • LCSH : National characteristics, Canadian, in literature
  • LCSH : Group identity -- Canada
• Parent Bibliography ID:
  • BA44393764