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Author Creelman, David Craig, 1962-

Title Setting in the east : Maritime realist fiction / David Creelman.

Publication Info. Montreal ; Ithaca : McGill-Queen's University Press, [2003]
©2003

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Description 1 online resource (xii, 247 pages)
Physical Medium polychrome
Description text file
Bibliography Includes bibliographical references (pages 225-239) and index.
Contents Approaching the East: Transformations, Ideology, and Realism -- Realism with Reservations: Frank Parker Day, Hugh MacLennan, and Thomas Head Raddall -- Between Realism and Nostalgia: Charles Bruce -- Conservative Laments: Ernest Buckler -- Writing in the Dusk: Alden Nowlan and Alistair MacLeod -- Hard Bargains: David Adams Richards -- Breaking Silence: Smyth, Bauer, Wilson, Corey, Coady, Bruneau, and MacDonald -- Diverging Streams: Fiction at the End of the Century -- Realism's Wake: A Conclusion.
Summary "In Setting in the East David Creelman examines the works of Maritime writers between 1920 and 2000 and traces the way Maritime fiction has been shaped by the region's history and culture. The emergence of a realist style in Maritime fiction corresponded with a dramatic period of economic and cultural disruption during which the Maritime provinces were transformed from one of Canada's most developed, prosperous, and promising regions into one characterized by chronic underemployment and underdevelopment. The Maritime region is thus torn between its memory of an earlier, more prosperous and traditional social order and its present experience as a less fortunate modern industrial society. These tensions are embedded in the Maritime character and have affected not only the lives of its people but the imaginations and texts of its writers."--Jacket.
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Subject Canadian fiction -- Maritime Provinces -- History and criticism.
Canadian fiction.
Maritime Provinces.
Authors, Canadian -- Homes and haunts -- Maritime Provinces.
Authors, Canadian -- Homes and haunts.
Authors, Canadian.
Canadian fiction -- 20th century -- History and criticism.
Chronological Term 20th century
Subject Realism in literature.
Realism in literature.
Maritime Provinces -- Intellectual life.
Intellectual life.
Maritime Provinces -- In literature.
Canadian fiction (English) -- Maritime Provinces -- History and criticism.
Canadian fiction (English) -- 20th century -- History and criticism.
Chronological Term 1900 - 1999
Genre/Form Electronic books.
Criticism, interpretation, etc.
Other Form: Print version: Creelman, David Craig, 1962- Setting in the east. Montreal ; Ithaca : McGill-Queen's University Press, ©2003 (DLC) 2004381584
ISBN 9780773570740 (electronic book)
0773570748 (electronic book)
1282860887
9781282860889
0773524789 (alkaline paper)
9780773524781