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- The Postwar Novel in Canada: Narrative Patterns and Reader Response
- Book
- 2006
- Published by: Wilfrid Laurier University Press
summary
As a comparative study which includes the analysis of both English-Canadian and Quebec novels, this book provides an overview of the novel as it has developed in this country since the Second World War. Focusing on narratological rather than thematic elements, the book represents a systematic application of the insights and analytical tools of reader-reception theory, in particular the models proposed by Wolfgang Iser and Hans Robert Jauss. Placing the emphasis on the text and its effects rather than on the historical or psycho-sociological genesis of the text, the author invokes the models and paradigms of other literatures to establish a broader cultural context permitting the significance of a literature to emerge as a carrier of meaning in and beyond the culture that produces it. Tracing a critical path from Hugh MacLennan's hierarchic romance structures and Gabrielle Roy's social realism to the metafictions of Hubert Aquin and Timothy Findley, the author reveals that the novel's narratological features themselves are often closely linked with ideological positions.
Table of Contents
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- Acknowledgments
- pp. ix-x
- Introduction
- pp. 1-8
- Part II: Aspects of Indeterminacy
- pp. 75-78
- Part III: Patterns of Allusion
- pp. 121-125
- Selected Bibliography
- pp. 179-192
Additional Information
ISBN
9780889207806
Related ISBN(s)
9781554584864, 9781554587018
MARC Record
OCLC
1016808129
Pages
213
Launched on MUSE
2018-01-01
Language
English
Open Access
No
Copyright
1989