Contents

Chapters in this book

1. Front Matter i
2. Contents v
3. A New Genealogy of Canadian Literary Modernism 1
4. The Making of Canadian Literary Modernism
5. The Writing Livesays 29
6. Feminist and Regionalist Modernisms in Contemporary Verse, CV/II, and CV2 49
7. P.K. Page 75
8. Tradition, Individual Talent, and “a young woman / From backwoods New Brunswick” 97
9. “And we are homesick still” 125
10. Anne Marriott 147
11. Dicontinuity, Intertextuality, and Literary History 163
12. Literary Modernism As Cultural Act
13. “They cut him down” 191
14. Dorothy Livesay and CBC Radio 213
15. Phyllis Webb as Public Intellectual 237
16. “A Collection of Solitary Fragments” 253
17. “Our hearts both leapt / in love with metaphor” 275
18. The Passionate and Sublime Modernism of Elizabeth Smart 297
19. Jay Macpherson’s Modernism 325
20. Word, I, and Other in Margaret Avison’s Poetry 347
21. Reading P.K. Page in English/Italian; or, On the Politics of Translating Modernist Gender 373
22. Contributors 397
23. Index 403