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New Brunswick at the Crossroads: Literary Ferment and Social Change in the East
Tony (Ed) Tremblay
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Description for New Brunswick at the Crossroads: Literary Ferment and Social Change in the East
Paperback. Examines the relationship between distinct periods of creative ferment in New Brunswick and the socio-cultural conditions in which those periods emerged. Contributes to current critical discussions about what constitutes "the creative" in Canadian society, especially in bilingual, rural, non-central spaces like New Brunswick. Editor(s): Tremblay, Tony. Num Pages: 245 pages. BIC Classification: 1KBC; 2AB; DSA; DSB; GTB. Category: (G) General (US: Trade). Dimension: 229 x 152 x 25. Weight in Grams: 432.
What is the relationship between literature and the society in which it incubates? Are there common political, social, and economic factors that predominate during periods of heightened literary activity? New Brunswick at the Crossroads: Literary Ferment and Social Change in the East considers these questions and explores the relationships between periods of creative ferment in New Brunswick and the socio-cultural conditions of those times. The province's literature is ideally suited to such a study because of its bicultural characterain both English and French, periods of intense literary creativity occurred at different times and for different reasons. What emerges is a ... Read more
What is the relationship between literature and the society in which it incubates? Are there common political, social, and economic factors that predominate during periods of heightened literary activity? New Brunswick at the Crossroads: Literary Ferment and Social Change in the East considers these questions and explores the relationships between periods of creative ferment in New Brunswick and the socio-cultural conditions of those times. The province's literature is ideally suited to such a study because of its bicultural characterain both English and French, periods of intense literary creativity occurred at different times and for different reasons. What emerges is a ... Read more
Product Details
Publisher
Wilfrid Laurier University Press
Format
Paperback
Publication date
2017
Condition
New
Weight
432g
Number of Pages
245
Place of Publication
Waterloo, Ontario, Canada
ISBN
9781771122078
SKU
V9781771122078
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About Tony (Ed) Tremblay
Tony Tremblay is a professor and Canada Research Chair in New Brunswick studies at St. Thomas University. He is founding editor of the Journal of New Brunswick Studies and the New Brunswick Literary Encyclopedia. His recent work includes Fred Cogswell: The Many-Dimensioned Self (2012), Last Shift: The Story of a Mill Town (2011), and David Adams Richards of the Miramichi ... Read more
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