Survival : a thematic guide to Canadian literature
Type
Book
Authors
ISBN 10
0887846130
ISBN 13
9780887846137
Category
General Library Collection
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Publication Year
1972
Publisher
Pages
287
Subject
Canadian literature -- History and criticism
Abstract
"Survival is the most startling book ever written about Canadian literature. It is simultaneously a book of criticism, a manifesto, and a collection of personal and subversive remarks. Margaret Atwood begins by asking: "What have been the central preoccupations of our poetry and fiction?" Her answer is twofold: "survival and victims."
Atwood applies this thesis in twelve brilliant, witty and impassioned chapters. From Moodie to MacLennan to Blais, from Pratt to Purdy to Newlove, from Godfrey to Gibson, she lights up familiar books in wholly new perspectives."--Back cover.
Atwood applies this thesis in twelve brilliant, witty and impassioned chapters. From Moodie to MacLennan to Blais, from Pratt to Purdy to Newlove, from Godfrey to Gibson, she lights up familiar books in wholly new perspectives."--Back cover.
Biblio Notes
Includes index.
Number of Copies
1
