Burgess Shale (eBook)

The Canadian Writing Landscape of the 1960s

Margaret Atwood (Autor)

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2017
56 Seiten
The University of Alberta Press (Verlag)
978-1-77212-304-3 (ISBN)

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"e;Atwood provides a window into her own early writing days . . . a treasure for readers interested in Canadian literature because this is where it all began."e; -Prairie Fire Review of Books"e;The outburst of cultural energy that took place in the 1960s was in part a product of the two decades that came before. It's always difficult for young people to see their own time in perspective: when you're in your teens, a decade earlier feels like ancient history and the present moment seems normal: what exists now is surely what has always existed."e;In this short work, Margaret Atwood, author of The Handmaid's Tale and "e;Canada's most famous writer"e; (The New Yorker), compares the Canadian literary landscape of the 1960s to the Burgess Shale, a geological formation that contains the fossils of many strange prehistoric life forms. The Burgess Shale is not entirely about writing itself, however: Atwood also provides some insight into the meager writing infrastructure of that time, taking a lighthearted look at the early days of the institutions we take for granted today from writers' organizations, prizes, and grant programs to book tours and festivals. "e;Allows the reader a brief glimpse into the mind of a great writer and her perspective and experience living through what would now seem to many the Stone Age of the Canadian writing scene . . . invaluable and very readable."e; Canadian Literature

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• Erscheint lt. Verlag: 17.3.2017
• Sprache: englisch
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• ISBN-10: 1-77212-304-8 / 1772123048
• ISBN-13: 978-1-77212-304-3 / 9781772123043