The Canadian Postmodern by Linda Hutcheon
A study of many of Canada's most prominent fiction writers, including Margaret Atwood, Timothy Findley, Jack Hodgins, Audrey Thomas and Aritha van Herk. The author examines their work in the context of postmodernism and argues that Canadian literature has taken a distinctive form of its own.Mark A. Cheetham is a professor of art history at the University of Toronto. The recipient of a Guggenheim Fellowship and the Art Journal Award, he is the author of a dozen books, volumes, and exhibition catalogues, most recently Artwriting, Nation, and Cosmopolitanism in Britain: The Englishness
of English Art Theory since the Eighteenth Century (2012) and co-curator of Jack Chambers: The Light From the Darkness / Silver Paintings and Film (2011). Linda Hutcheon is Professor Emeritus of English and Comparative Literature at the University of Toronto. She has published a long list of books, including A Poetics of Postmodernism: History, Theory, Fiction (1988), The Politics of Postmodernism (1989), The Canadian Postmodern: A Study of
Contemporary English-Canadian Fiction (1992), and A Theory of Adaptation (2006). She has also co-authored three books on opera, medicine, and culture with Michael Hutcheon, MD.
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| ISBN 13 | 9780195406689 |
| ISBN 10 | 0195406680 |
| Title | The Canadian Postmodern |
| Author | Linda Hutcheon |
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| Binding Type | Hardback |
| Publisher | Oxford University Press, Canada |
| Year published | 1988-10-13 |
| Number of pages | 246 |
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