Progressive Heritage: The Evolution of a Politically Radical Literary Tradition in Canada

Author:   James Doyle
Publisher:   Wilfrid Laurier University Press
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9780889203976


Pages:   330
Publication Date:   12 April 2002
Format:   Paperback
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Author:   James Doyle
Publisher:   Wilfrid Laurier University Press
Imprint:   Wilfrid Laurier University Press
Dimensions:   Width: 15.20cm , Height: 1.90cm , Length: 22.80cm
Weight:   0.546kg
ISBN:  

9780889203976


ISBN 10:   0889203970
Pages:   330
Publication Date:   12 April 2002
Audience:   Professional and scholarly ,  Professional & Vocational
Format:   Paperback
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Table of Contents for Progressive Heritage: The Evolution of a Politically Radical Literary Tradition in Canada, by James Doyle Acknowledgements Introduction Chapter 1: The Progressive Heritage in Canadian Literature: Beginnings to 1900 Chapter 2: Antecedents and Alternatives to Bolshevism Chapter 3: The 1920s: Communists and Fellow Travellers Chapter 4: The 1930s: Socialist and Other Realisms Chapter 5: The 1930s: Progressive Drama, Poetry and Non-Fiction Chapter 6: The 1940s: War and Post-War Chapter 7: The 1950s: Post-War to Cold War Chapter 8: After Stalinism: Decline and Achievement Chapter 9: The New Left Conclusion List of Works Cited Index

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[A]n unprecedented recovery of books, poems, and plays written in a communist or anti-capitalist bent. As a reader's guide, Progressive Heritage is superb at contextualizing literary works....Young scholars will be interested in this work because it has its finger on the pulse of what was and still is one of the most taboo subjects in Canadian culture: the silencing and devaluing of voices speaking out against capitalist and corporate hegemony....[S]cholars will welcome Doyle's counter history and draw up a list of books and poems we should know more about....WIth a sincere and engaged writing style, Doyle renders this version of a radical tradition accessible to the uninitiated and unconverted.''--Roxanne Rimstead Canadian Literature, 184, Spring 2005


[A]n unprecedented recovery of books, poems, and plays written in a communist or anti-capitalist bent. As a reader's guide, <i>Progressive Heritage</i> is superb at contextualizing literary works....Young scholars will be interested in this work because it has its finger on the pulse of what was and still is one of the most taboo subjects in Canadian culture: the silencing and devaluing of voices speaking out against capitalist and corporate hegemony....[S]cholars will welcome Doyle's counter history and draw up a list of books and poems we should know more about....WIth a sincere and engaged writing style, Doyle renders this version of a radical tradition accessible to the uninitiated and unconverted.''--Roxanne Rimstead Canadian Literature, 184, Spring 2005


``The book is... eye-opening. Progressive Heritage presents a broad-ranging coverage of literary radicalism that establishes the field as undeniably present in Canadian writing....Progressive Heritage is thus a long overdue book.'' -- American Review of Canadian Studies, Spring 2004, 200409 ``[A]n unprecedented recovery of books, poems, and plays written in a communist or anti-capitalist bent. As a reader's guide, Progressive Heritage is superb at contextualizing literary works....Young scholars will be interested in this work because it has its finger on the pulse of what was and still is one of the most taboo subjects in Canadian culture: the silencing and devaluing of voices speaking out against capitalist and corporate hegemony....[S]cholars will welcome Doyle's counter history and draw up a list of books and poems we should know more about....WIth a sincere and engaged writing style, Doyle renders this version of a radical tradition accessible to the uninitiated and unconverted.'' -- Roxanne Rimstead -- Canadian Literature, 184, Spring 2005, 200508


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James Doyle is professor emeritus of English at Wilfrid Laurier University. Author of five other books, he has contributed many times to scholarly journals, particularly on Canadian-US literary relations and political radicalism in Canadian literature.

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