The vernacular muse
Subtitle: the eye and ear in contemporary literature
By: Dennis Cooley.
Publisher: Turnstone Press; Turnstone Press Canada
Published: 1987
Place of publication: Winnipeg
Language: eng
Number of pages: 311
Subjects: Canadian literature -- 20th century -- History and criticism
Other titles: Geddes Collection.
Description: "The Vernacular Muse tackles head-on conservative Canadian critical theory and practice. Personal and provocative, Cooley's lucid essays in The Vernacular Muse range from the ­vernacular in Prairie poetry, the poetics of the line break, and the poetry of eye versus ear to substantial readings of texts by Dorothy Livesay, Margaret Laurence, Michael Ondaatje, Sinclair Ross and Robert Duncan. The first collection of critical essays from a central figure in the making and recognition of prairie writing"--amazon.com.
Notes: Copy 2 donated in 1998-99 by Canadian authors and publishers through the efforts of Gary Geddes, Distinguished Professor of Canadian Culture, Center for Canadian-American Studies.

Includes bibliographical references.