Wider boundaries of daring the modernist impulse in Canadian women's poetry / Di Brandt and Barbara Godard, editors.

Other author Godard, Barbara.
Other author Brandt, Di, 1952-
Format Electronic
Publication InfoWaterloo, Ont. : Wilfrid Laurier University Press,
Descriptionvi, 417 p. ; 23 cm.
Supplemental ContentFull text available from Ebook Central - Public Library Complete
Subjects
Canadian poetry--Women authors. --History and criticism.
Canadian poetry--20th century. --History and criticism.
Canadian poetry--21st century. --History and criticism.
Modernism (Literature)--Canada.
Canadian poetry (English)--Women authors. --History and criticism.
Canadian poetry (English)--20th century. --History and criticism.
Canadian poetry (English)--21st century. --History and criticism.
Écrits de femmes canadiens-anglais--Histoire et critique.
Poésie canadienne-anglaise--20e siècle. --Histoire et critique.
Poésie canadienne-anglaise--21e siècle. --Histoire et critique.
Modernisme (Littérature)--Canada.

Contents A new genealogy of Canadian literary modernism / Di Brandt -- The making of a Canadian literary modernism. The writing Livesays: connecting generations of Canadian modernism / Ann Martin ; Feminist and regionalist modernism in Contemporary verse, CV/II and CV2 / Christine Kim ; P.K. Page: discovering a modern sensibility / Sandra Djwa ; Tradition, individual talent, and "a young woman / From backwoods New Brunswick", modernism and Elizabeth Brewster's (auto)poetics of the subject / Bina Toledo Freiwald ; "And we are homesick still": home, the unhomely, and the everyday in Anne Wilkinson / Kathy Mezei ; Anne Marriott: modernist on the periphery / Marilyn J. Rose ; Discontinuity, intertextuality, and literary history: Gail Scott's reading of Gertrude Stein / Lianne Moyes -- Literary modernism as cultural act. "They cut him down": race, class, and cultural memory in Dorothy Livesay's "Day and night" / Pamela McCallum ; Dorothy Livesay and CBC Radio: the politics of modernist aesthetics, gender, and regionalism / Peggy Lynn Kelly ; Phyllis Webb as public intellectual / Pauline Butling ; "A collection of solitary fragments": Miriam Waddington as critic / Candida Rifkind ; "Our hearts both leapt / in love with metaphor": P.K. Page's professional elegies / Sara Jamieson ; The passionate and sublime modernism of Elizabeth Smart / Anne Quéma ; Jay Macpherson's modernism / Miriam Nichols ; Word, I, and other in Margaret Avison's poetry / Katherine Quinsey ; Reading P.K. Page in English/Italian; or, On the politics of translating modernist gender / Elena Basile.
Bibliography noteIncludes bibliographical references and index.
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LCCN 2012451481
ISBN9781554580323 (pbk.)