Anti-modernist Paradox in Canada: The Graphic Publishers (1925-32) and the Case of Madge Macbeth.
Anti-modernism is a term that historians and literary critics have employed in different ways: to refer to the rejection of an "overcivilized" modernity and to describe the popular literary forms that are understood to be the antithesis of literary modernism. The author argues that both understandin...
| Publicado en: | Journal of Canadian Studies Vol. 45; no. 2; pp. 96 - 123 |
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University of Toronto Press
Spring2011
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