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OverviewFull Product DetailsAuthor: James DoylePublisher: Wilfrid Laurier University Press Imprint: Wilfrid Laurier University Press Dimensions: Width: 15.20cm , Height: 1.90cm , Length: 22.80cm Weight: 0.546kg ISBN: 9780889203976ISBN 10: 0889203970 Pages: 330 Publication Date: 12 April 2002 Audience: Professional and scholarly , Professional & Vocational Format: Paperback Publisher's Status: Active Availability: Out of stock The supplier is temporarily out of stock of this item. It will be ordered for you on backorder and shipped when it becomes available. Table of ContentsTable 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 IndexReviews[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 Author InformationJames 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. Tab Content 6Author Website:Countries AvailableAll regions |