Title: The vernacular muse
First published: 1987
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.
Subjects: History and criticism, Canadian literature, Literature, history and criticism, Canadian literature (English), Littérature canadienne-anglaise, Histoire et critique, American literature
Time periods: 20th century
LC classification: MLCS 91/12752 (P)