Downtown Canada
Subtitle: Writing Canadian Cities
Contributors: Justin D. Edwards (Editor); Douglas Ivison (Editor)
Publisher: University of Toronto Press
Published: November 24, 2005
Language: eng
Format: Hardcover
Number of pages: 290
ISBN-13: 9780802087201
Subjects: Literary studies: general; Literature - Classics / Criticism; American English; Literary Criticism; Canada; Canadian; Literary Criticism & Collections / Canadian; 20th century; Canadian literature; City and town life in literature; History and criticism; Literature and society
First sentence: The notion that Canadian literature has a deep and abiding relationship with the land has governed criticism of Canadian literature (generally thematic, but also more avowedly theoretical) for the last half century, largely to the exclusion of critiques relating to literary systems as urban institutions (and, more broadly, to critiques of Canadian society and culture as products of the Enlightenment project).