From Cohen to Carson: The Poet's Novel in Canada

From Cohen to Carson: The Poet's Novel in Canada
ISBN-10
0773577580
ISBN-13
9780773577589
Category
Literary Criticism
Pages
400
Language
English
Published
2008-03-26
Publisher
McGill-Queen's Press - MQUP
Author
Ian Rae

Description

Detailed case studies of novels by Leonard Cohen, Michael Ondaatje, George Bowering, Daphne Marlatt, and Anne Carson, as well as sections on A.M. Klein and Anne Michaels, reveal how these authors framed their early novels according to formal precedents established in their poetry. In tracking the authors’ shift from lyric to long poem to novel, Rae also investigates their experiments with non-literary art forms - photography, painting, film. The authors discussed combine disparate genres and media to alter notions of narrative coherence in the novel and engage the diverse but fragmented cultural histories of Canadian society.

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