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Avant Canada: Poets, Prophets, Revolutionaries

Avant Canada: Poets, Prophets, Revolutionaries

Betts, Gregory
Canada

Paperback

Literary CriticismPoetry CriticismGeneral Poetry

ISBN10: 1771123524
ISBN13: 9781771123525
Publisher: Wilfrid Laurier University Press
Published: Jan 10 2019
Pages: 350
Weight: 1.04
Height: 0.73 Width: 6.00 Depth: 9.00
Language: English

Avant Canada presents a rich collection of original essays and creative works on a representative array of avant-garde literary movements in Canada from the past fifty years. From the work of Leonard Cohen and bpNichol to that of Jordan Abel and Liz Howard, Avant Canada features twenty-eight of the best writers and critics in the field.

The book proposes four dominant modes of avant-garde production: Concrete Poetics, which accentuates the visual and material aspects of language; Language Writing, which challenges the interconnection between words and things; Identity Writing, which interrogates the self and its sociopolitical position; and Copyleft Poetics, which undermines our habitual assumptions about the ownership of expression. A fifth section commemorates the importance of the Centennial in the 1960s at a time when avant-garde cultures in Canada began to emerge.

Readers of this book will become familiar with some of the most challenging works of literature--and their creators--that this country has ever produced. From Concrete Poetry in the 1960s through to Indigenous Literature in the 2010s, Avant Canada offers the most sweeping study of the literary avant-garde in Canada to date.

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