The Postwar Novel in Canada

Name: The Postwar Novel in Canada
Brand: Wilfrid Laurier University Press
SKU: 9780889207806
Price: 34.99 EUR
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ISBN: 978-0-889-20780-6

Narrative Patterns and Reader Response

de Rosmarin Heidenreich (auteur), Linda Hutcheon (avant-propos)

Maison d'édition : Wilfrid Laurier University Press

janvier 2006

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Résumé

As a comparative study which includes the analysis of both English-Canadian and Quebec novels, this book provides an overview of the novel as it has developed in this country since the Second World War. Focusing on narratological rather than thematic elements, the book represents a systematic application of the insights and analytical tools of reader-reception theory, in particular the models proposed by Wolfgang Iser and Hans Robert Jauss. Placing the emphasis on the text and its effects rather than on the historical or psycho-sociological genesis of the text, the author invokes the models and paradigms of other literatures to establish a broader cultural context permitting the significance of a literature to emerge as a carrier of meaning in and beyond the culture that produces it. Tracing a critical path from Hugh MacLennan's hierarchic romance structures and Gabrielle Roy's social realism to the metafictions of Hubert Aquin and Timothy Findley, the author reveals that the novel's narratological features themselves are often closely linked with ideological positions.

Auteur

Rosmarin Heidenreich (auteur)

Rosmarin Heidenreich holds a Ph.D. in Comparative Literature from the University of Toronto, and is the author of numerous articles and essays on Canadian writing. She has taught in the English Departments of the University of Tübingen and Freiburg, West Germany, and is presently teaching at St. Boniface College, University of Manitoba.
Linda Hutcheon (Avant-propos de)

Linda Hutcheon is Associate Professor of English at McMaster University.