Worrying the nation : imagining a national literature in English Canada / Jonathan Kertzer.
Material type: TextSeries: Theory/culture seriesPublication details: Toronto, Ont. : University of Toronto Press, ©1998.Description: 1 online resource (243 pages)Content type:- text
- computer
- online resource
- 9781442683693
- 1442683694
- Canadian literature -- History and criticism
- National characteristics, Canadian, in literature
- Nationalism in literature
- Canadian literature -- History and criticism
- Littérature canadienne-anglaise -- Histoire et critique
- Canadiens dans la littérature
- Nationalisme dans la littérature
- LITERARY CRITICISM -- American -- General
- LITERARY CRITICISM -- Canadian
- Canadian literature
- National characteristics, Canadian, in literature
- Nationalism in literature
- Literatur
- Nationalismus Motiv
- Kanada
- Englisch
- 810.9/358
- PR9185.5.N27 K47 1998eb
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Includes bibliographical references and index.
"Worrying the Nation is a critical fretting about the possibility of a national literature in Canada at a time when the very idea of the nation as a viable conceptual/literary category has been called into question." "Jonathan Kertzer stakes out the theoretical ground where three competing discourses (national + literary + history) intersect. He shows how the legacy of Herder and Hegel's romantic historicism both inspired and baffled literary historians in English Canada, who found their fragmentary country unsuited to the romantic model. Kertzer illustrates this difficulty in an analysis of three flawed attempts at poetic nation-buildingOliver Goldsmith's The Rising Village, E.J. Pratt's Towards the Last Spike, and Dennis Lee's Civil Elegies - then shows how disillusionment among more recent critics and writers has led to new models of sociability, as reflected in the novels of Joy Kogawa and Daphne Marlatt. Finally, Kertzer argues that while the nation remains an inevitable category of both political and literary thought, it must be used subtly and self-critically to articulate the 'motley space' of a national life."--Jacket.
Print version record.
1. National + Literary + History -- 2. The National Ghost -- 3. Nation Building -- 4. The Nation as Monster -- 5. Worrying the Nation.
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