Anthologizing Canadian Literature

Theoretical and Cultural Perspectives

Édité par Robert Lecker
Catégories: Études littéraires, Biographies et études littéraires
Éditeur: Wilfrid Laurier University Press
Paperback : 9781771121071, 334 pages, Novembre 2015

Table des matières

Table of Contents
Introduction | Robert Lecker
Anthems and Anthologies | Richard Cavell
The Poetry of the Canoe: William Douw Lighthall’s Songs of the Great Dominion | D.M.R. Bentley
Publication, Performances, and Politics: The “Indian Poems” of E. Pauline Johnson / Tekhionwake (1861–1913) and Duncan Campbell Scott (1862–1947) | Margery Fee
Excerpts of Exploration Writing in Anthologies of English-Canadian Literature | Cheryl Cundell
Anthologies and the Canonization Process: A Case Study of the English-Canadian Literary Field, 1920–1950 | Peggy Kelly
Nation Building, Literary Tradition, and English-Canadian Anthologies: Presentations of John Richardson and Susanna Moodie in Anthologies of the 1950s and 1960s | Bonnie Hughes
Anthology on the Radio: Robert Weaver and CBC Radio’s Anthology | Joel Deshaye
Canadian Literary Anthologies through the Lens of Publishing History: A Preliminary Exploration of Historical Trends to 1997 | Janet B. Friskney
Confessions of an Unrepentant Anthologist | Gary Geddes
The Poet-Editor and the Small Press: Michael Ondaatje and the Long Poem Anthology | Karis Shearer
Why So Serious? The Quirky Canadian Anthology | Lorraine York
Reading Anthologies | Frank Davey
The Poet and Her Library: Anthologies Read, Anthologies Made | Anne Compton

La description

A study of English-Canadian literary anthologies that investigates anthology formation in Canada and answers key questions about the role anthologies have played in the formation of Canadian literary taste, their influence on students, editors’ literary values, and how that contributes to canon formation, genre, gender, region, ideology, and nation.

Récompenses

  • Winner, CHOICE Magazine Community College Recommendation 2015