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Title: | Review of 'A Choice of Critics: Selections from 'Canadian Literature''. Edited by George Woodcock. Toronto and London: Oxford University Press. 1966. xxii + 247 pp. 32s. 6d. | Contributor(s): | Ryan, John S (author) | Publication Date: | 1969 | Handle Link: | https://hdl.handle.net/1959.11/11566 | Abstract: | Although only seven years of 'Canadian Literature' have appeared to date, this selection therefrom, like a reading of the correspondingly youthful 'Australian Literary Studies', makes it clear that one journal with correct editorial policy can do much towards the focusing of literary activity in a country on the brink of cultural maturity. This volume is a selection of articles from the journal which is itself edited by George Woodcock, but the chosen pieces have the aim of producing a unified pattern, and charting the terrain inhabited by the writer in modern Canada. They also illustrate that the activities of Canadian writers prove an ever-widening field of discussion. Another feature of the book is the illustration it affords of the complex inter-relationships of cultural Canada, since all the contributors are attached to some university; seven of the twelve critics are writers of some stature, and there are the risks of the whole becoming an in-game, a literary world of incestuous Can. Lit. | Publication Type: | Review | Source of Publication: | Modern Language Review, 64(3), p. 661-662 | Publisher: | Modern Humanities Research Association | Place of Publication: | United Kingdom | ISSN: | 2222-4319 0026-7937 |
Fields of Research (FoR) 2008: | 169999 Studies in Human Society not elsewhere classified 190401 Aboriginal and Torres Strait Islander Performing Arts 200506 North American Literature |
Socio-Economic Objective (SEO) 2008: | 950506 Understanding the Past of the Americas 950306 Conserving Pacific Peoples Heritage 950104 The Creative Arts (incl. Graphics and Craft) |
HERDC Category Description: | D3 Review of Single Work | Publisher/associated links: | http://www.jstor.org/stable/3722085 |
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