By Colin Hill
Much of the scholarship on twentieth-century Canadian literature has argued that English-Canadian fiction was once tormented by backwardness and an lack of ability to have interaction totally with the flow of modernism that was once so widely used in British and American fiction and poetry. Modern Realism in English-Canadian Fiction re-evaluates Canadian literary tradition to posit that it's been misunderstood since it is a different style, a nearby type of the bigger overseas modernist movement.
Examining literary magazines, manifestos, archival files, and significant writers resembling Frederick Philip Grove, Morley Callaghan, and Raymond Knister, Colin Hill identifies a 'modern realism' that crosses areas in addition to city and rural divides. A daring examining of the modern-realist aesthetic and an articulate problem to a number of enduring and restricting myths approximately Canadian writing, Modern Realism in English- Canadian Fiction will stimulate vital debate in literary circles everywhere.
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