bpNichol: What History Teaches

Nichol, bp (Study of). Scobie, Stephen

ISBN 10: 0889222207 / ISBN 13: 9780889222205

Editore: Talon Books, Vancouver, 1984

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8vo, 153 pp. Pages tanned. DH.

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• Titolo: bpNichol: What History Teaches
• Editore: Talon Books, Vancouver
• Data di pubblicazione: 1984
• Lingua: Inglese
• ISBN 10: 0889222207
• ISBN 13: 9780889222205
• Rilegatura: Wraps
• Condizione: Near Fine
• Cataloghi dei venditori:
  • Literature

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Riassunto

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

Informazioni sull?autore

Born in Scotland, 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.

Born in Vancouver, Frank Davey attended the University of British Columbia where he was a co-founder of the avant-garde poetry magazine TISH. Since 1963, he has been the editor-publisher of the poetics journal Open Letter. In addition, he co-founded the world’s first on-line literary magazine, SwiftCurrent in 1984. Davey writes with a unique panache as he examines with humour and irony the ambiguous play of signs in contemporary culture, the popular stories that lie behind it, and the struggles between different identity-based groups in our globalizing society—racial, regional, gender-based, ethnic, economic—that drive this play.