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- catalog abstract ""Worrying the Nation is a critical fretting about the possibility of a national literature in Canada at a time when the very idea of the nation as a viable conceptual/literary category has been called into question." "Jonathan Kertzer stakes out the theoretical ground where three competing discourses (national + literary + history) intersect. He shows how the legacy of Herder and Hegel's romantic historicism both inspired and baffled literary historians in English Canada, who found their fragmentary country unsuited to the romantic model. Kertzer illustrates this difficulty in an analysis of three flawed attempts at poetic nation-buildingOliver Goldsmith's The Rising Village, E.J. Pratt's Towards the Last Spike, and Dennis Lee's Civil Elegies - then shows how disillusionment among more recent critics and writers has led to new models of sociability, as reflected in the novels of Joy Kogawa and Daphne Marlatt. Finally, Kertzer argues that while the nation remains an inevitable category of both political and literary thought, it must be used subtly and self-critically to articulate the 'motley space' of a national life."--Jacket.".
- catalog contributor b10884779.
- catalog created "c1998.".
- catalog date "1998".
- catalog date "c1998.".
- catalog dateCopyrighted "c1998.".
- catalog description ""Worrying the Nation is a critical fretting about the possibility of a national literature in Canada at a time when the very idea of the nation as a viable conceptual/literary category has been called into question." "Jonathan Kertzer stakes out the theoretical ground where three competing discourses (national + literary + history) intersect. He shows how the legacy of Herder and Hegel's romantic historicism both inspired and baffled literary historians in English Canada, who found their fragmentary country unsuited to the romantic model. Kertzer illustrates this difficulty in an analysis of three flawed attempts at poetic nation-buildingOliver Goldsmith's The Rising Village, E.J. Pratt's Towards the Last Spike, and Dennis Lee's Civil Elegies - then shows how disillusionment among more recent critics and writers has led to new models of sociability, as reflected in the novels of Joy Kogawa and Daphne Marlatt. Finally, Kertzer argues that while the nation remains an inevitable category of both political and literary thought, it must be used subtly and self-critically to articulate the 'motley space' of a national life."--Jacket.".
- catalog description "1. National + Literary + History -- 2. The National Ghost -- 3. Nation Building -- 4. The Nation as Monster -- 5. Worrying the Nation.".
- catalog description "Includes bibliographical references and index.".
- catalog extent "243 p. ;".
- catalog identifier "0802043038 (acid-free paper) :".
- catalog isPartOf "Theory/culture series.".
- catalog isPartOf "Theory/culture".
- catalog issued "1998".
- catalog issued "c1998.".
- catalog language "eng".
- catalog publisher "Toronto ; Buffalo : University of Toronto Press,".
- catalog spatial "Canada.".
- catalog subject "810.9/358 21".
- catalog subject "Canadian literature History and criticism.".
- catalog subject "National characteristics, Canadian, in literature.".
- catalog subject "Nationalism and literature Canada.".
- catalog subject "Nationalism in literature.".
- catalog subject "PR9185.5.N27 K47 1998".
- catalog tableOfContents "1. National + Literary + History -- 2. The National Ghost -- 3. Nation Building -- 4. The Nation as Monster -- 5. Worrying the Nation.".
- catalog title "Worrying the nation : imagining a national literature in English Canada / Jonathan Kertzer.".
- catalog type "Criticism, interpretation, etc. fast".
- catalog type "text".