Downtown Canada: writing Canadian cities

by Edwards, Justin D. Ivison, Douglas

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Title Statements

Full title :Downtown Canada : writing Canadian cities / edited by Justin D. Edwards and Douglas Ivison.

Summary

"Downtown Canada is a collection of essays that addresses Canada as an urban place. The contributors focus their attention on the writing of Canada's cities - including Vancouver, Toronto, Ottawa, Montreal, and Halifax - and call attention to the centrality of the city in Canadian literature. They examine how characters are affected by the urban experience in works by authors as diverse as the country itself: Hugh MacLennan, Jovette Marchessault, Michael Ondaatje, Austin Clarke, and Gerald Lynch, to name just a few. Editors Justin D. Edwards and Douglas Ivison have brought together an esteemed group of international Canadian literary scholars

Together they have created a book that is timely and unique, questioning conventional assumptions about Canadian literature, and Canadian culture more generally."--Jacket

Edition Statements

Publication Date:©2005.

Publication Statements

Publisher(s):University of Toronto Press
Place of Publication:Toronto
Language:eng
Publication Date:©2005.

The Physical Object

Description:viii, 227 pages ; : 24 cm

Edition Identifiers

ISBN:0802087205, 9780802087201, 0802086683, 9780802086686
oclc:ocm58930450
LC Classification:PS8101 .C55 D68 2005
Dewey Decimal:C813/.5409321732

Subjects

Aufsatzsammlung Canada Canadian cities Canadian fiction Canadian fiction -- History and critici… Canadian literature Canadian literature -- History and crit… City and town life in literature Criticism, interpretation, etc Essays Kanada Literatur Literature and society Literature and society -- Canada Littérature canadienne -- Histoire et c… Littérature et société -- Canada Roman canadien -- Histoire et critique.… Stadt Vie urbaine dans la littérature