Early Canadians, McGregor finds, were hardly the robust adventurers of legend; in fact, they preferred the view from the fort to the call of the wild - a disconcerting through for a nation rasied on TomThomson, voyageurs, and the boy scouts. In modern times, Canadians live most …
"A growing number of literary historians and critics now recognize the long poem as a distinctively Canadian genre. This has been particularly evidenced through the recurrence of documentary aspects addressing both topographical and memorial functions. Together these features se…
"In the late 1960s and early 1970s, Canada witnessed an explosion in the production of literary works by Aboriginal writers, a development that some critics have called the Native Renaissance. Before the Country explores the extent to which this body of literature exposed the fa…
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