Personal Modernisms: Anarchist Networks and the Later Avant-Gardes - Softcover

Gifford, James

Softcover

ISBN 10: 1772120014 ISBN 13: 9781772120011

Publisher: University of Alberta Press, 2014

Synopsis

Gifford's invigorating work of metacriticism and literary history recovers the significance of the "lost generation" of writers of the 1930s and 1940s. He examines how the Personalism of anarcho-anti-authoritarian contemporaries such as Alex Comfort, Robert Duncan, Lawrence Durrell, J.F. Hendry, Henry Miller, Elizabeth Smart, Dylan Thomas, and Henry Treece forges a missing link between Late Modernist and postmodernist literature. He concludes by applying his recontextualization to four familiar texts by Miller, Durrell, Smart, and Duncan, and encourages readers to re-engage the lost generation using this new critical lens. Scholars and students of literary modernism, 20th century Canadian literature, and anarchism will find a productive vision of this neglected period within Personal Modernisms.

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Book Description:

Oft-neglected Personalist writers of 1930s-40s comprise a missing link between modernist and postmodernist literatures.

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Front Cover Heavy Burdens on Small Shoulders: The Labour of Pioneer Children on the Canadian Prairies Sandra Rollings-Magnusson Spine Heavy Burdens on Small Shoulders: The Labour of Pioneer Children on the Canadian Prairies Rollings-Magnusson Back Cover: The phrase “child labour” carries negative undertones in today’s society. However, only a century ago on the Canadian prairies, youngsters laboured alongside their parents working the land, cleaning stovepipes, and chopping wood. By shouldering their share of the chores, these children learned the domestic and manual labour skills needed for life on a prairie family farm. Rollings-Magnusson uses historic research, photographs, and personal anecdotes to describe the kinds of work performed by children and how each task fit into the family economy. Heavy Burdens on Small Shoulders is a vital contribution to western Canadian history as well as family and gender studies. Sandra Rollings-Magnusson teaches Sociology at MacEwan College. Her research interests include political economy, sociology of the family, social policy, and gender and ethnic studies. She is currently researching the economic, political, and social lives of pioneer families on the western prairies. Rollings-Magnusson lives in Edmonton. The University of Alberta Press ISBN: 978–0–88864–509–8 Printed in Canada $34.95 in Canada Book design by Jason Dewinetz www.uap.ualberta.ca

About this edition

• Publisher: University of Alberta Press
• Publication date: 2014
• ISBN 10: 1772120014
• ISBN 13: 9781772120011
• Binding: Paperback
• Edition number: 1
• Number of pages: 320