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How Canadian poets re-invented the novel.

Table of Contents

Introduction Framing the Poet's Novel; 1 (Un)framing Genres; 2 Leonard Cohen: (Un)framing Narrative; 3 Michael Ondaatje: (Un)framing the Series; 4 George Bowering: (Un)framing the Serial Novel; 5 Daphne Marlatt: (Un)framing the Quest Narrative; 6 Anne Carson: (Un)framing Myth; 7 The English Patient, Fugitive Pieces and the Poet's Novel

About the Author

Ian Rae is assistant professor of literature, McGill University.

Reviews

"Any serious student or critic of modern and contemporary Canadian fiction or poetry will want to read this book. It is a major contribution, admirably thorough, and will certainly affect the ways we read these writers' fictions and their poetry." Neil Besner