bpNichol: What History Teaches (The New Canadian Criticism) (The New Canadian Criticism Series) - Softcover
Synopsis
Scobie illuminates bpNichol’s relationship to Dadaism, contemporary French literary theory, and the writing of Gertrude Stein, and argues strongly for Nichol’s importance as a writer of fiction.
Other titles in The New Canadian Criticism Series:
- ABC of Reading TRG
- Timothy Findley and the Aesthetics of Fascism
- Michael Ondaatje: Word, Image, Imagination
- Margaret Atwood: A Feminist Poetics
- George Bowering: Bright Circles of Colour
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About the Author
Stephen Scobie is a critic and a poet who won the Governor General’s Award for Poetry in 1980 and the Prix Gabrielle Roy for Canadian Criticism in 1986. A founding editor of Longspoon Press, his literary criticism includes books on bpNichol, Leonard Cohen, Sheila Watson and Bob Dylan. His first book of poetry, Stone Poems, was published by Talonbooks in 1974. His critical work bpNichol: What History Teaches, published in 1984 is part of the Talonbooks New Canadian Criticism Series, edited by Frank Davey. Scobie was born in Carnoustie, Scotland in 1943 and came to Canada in 1965. Formerly based in the Prairies, he now lives and teaches in Victoria, B.C.
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