Alter/nations - long(ing) poems: reconfiguration of the nation-discourse in experimental Canadian poetry (1960s-1980s).

In Canadian literature, the discourse of the long poem has been both constitutive of, and excessive to, the formation of a national imaginary. The experimental poetics of this genre is evident in the poetry of Phyllis Webb, Roy Kiyooka, George Bowering and Daphne Marlatt from the early 1960s to the...

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Main Author: Capperdoni, Alessandra
Format: Thesis
Language:English
Published: 2006
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Online Access:http://summit.sfu.ca/item/2517