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In Avant-Garde Canadian Literature, Gregory Betts draws attention to the fact that the avant-garde has had a presence in Canada long before the country's literary histories have recognized, and that the radicalism of avant-garde art has been sabotaged by pedestrian terms of engagement by the Canadian media, the public, and the literary critics. This book presents a rich body of evidence to illustrate the extent to which Canadians have been producing avant-garde art since the start of the twentieth century. Betts explores the radical literary ambitions and achievements of three different nodes of avant-garde literary activity: mystical revolutionaries from the 1910s to the 1930s; Surrealists/Automatists from the 1920s to the 1960s; and Canadian Vorticists from the 1920s to the 1970s. 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.

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Book category Książki po angielsku The arts History of art / art & design styles History of art & design styles: from c 1900 -

• Full title: Avant-Garde Canadian Literature
• Subtitle: The Early Manifestations
• Author: Gregory Betts
• Language: English
• Binding: Hardback
• Number of pages: 328
• EAN: 9781442643772
• ISBN: 1442643773
• ID: 02068921
• Publisher: University Of Toronto Press
• Weight: 640 g
• Dimensions: 237 × 161 × 25 mm
• Date of publishing: 31. May 2012

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