Description:
Avant-Garde Canadian Literature offers an entrance into the vocabulary of the ongoing and primarily international debate surrounding the idea of avant-gardism, providing readers with a functional vocabulary for discussing some of the most hermetic and yet energetic literature ever produced in this country.
Brief description:
Gregory Betts is a professor in the Faculty of Humanities at Brock University.
Review Quotes:
'Betts' weaving of past and present, theory and literary practice, aesthetics and politics is carried out in a brilliant way.'
--Alessandra Capperdoni, Canadian Literature Autumn 2014'A fascinating work of scholarship, the book is an affront to the persistent belief that Canadian literature of the early twentieth century is a dreary subject. Betts has shown that in fact it is hardly comprehended.Avant-Garde Canadian Literature is an admirable and welcome contribution to the history and interpretation of literature in this country.'
--Nicholas Bradley, The Bull Calf: Reviews in Fiction, Poetry, and Literary Criticism December 2015'This book greatly advances our understanding of the experimental élan of Canada's avant-garde throughout the century, and provides insight into collaborative authorship, radical networks, and surrealist and automatist writing and painting.'
--Irene Gammel, The Journal of Canadian Studies, vol 50:01:2016