Setting in the east Maritime realist fiction - Creelman, David Craig (McGill-Queen's University Press, 2003)
Includes bibliographical references (p. [225]-239) and index
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
"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
Keywords: 1900 - 1999; Geschichte 1900-2000; Roman canadien-anglais / Provinces maritimes / Histoire et critique; Roman canadien-anglais / 20e siècle / Histoire et critique; Réalisme dans la littérature; Roman canadien de langue anglaise / 20e siècle / Thèmes, motifs; Literatur; LITERARY CRITICISM / American / General; LITERARY CRITICISM / Canadian; Authors, Canadian / Homes and haunts; Canadian fiction; Intellectual life; Literature; Realism in literature; Canadian fiction -- Maritime Provinces -- History and criticism; Authors, Canadian -- Homes and haunts -- Maritime Provinces; Canadian fiction -- 20th century -- History and criticism; Englisch; Maritime Provinzen