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Literary Criticism Canadian

Freedom from Culture

Selected Essays, 1982-92

by (author) John Metcalf

Publisher
ECW Press
Initial publish date
Oct 1994
Category
Canadian, Essays
  • Paperback / softback

    ISBN
    9781550222029
    Publish Date
    Oct 1994
    List Price
    $17.95

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Description

Presenting 11 polished and incisive essays on Canadian literature and culture, this collection explores the dangers of state subsidy, anthologizing, the inflation of reputations by academics desperate to invent new ancestors, and the lunacy of affirmative action in literature. It also features loving illuminations of fiction's interior workings.

About the author

John Metcalf is one of Canada's most distinguished literary editors, writers, critics, and anthologists. He has helped shape the sensibility of an entire group of emerging writers through his work at the Porcupine's Quill press. Known for his strong views about literary standards, Metcalf has nurtured some of our most essential writers, including Leon Rooke, Russel Smith, Terry Griggs, Caroline Adderson, Annabel Lyon, Andrew Pyper, Steven Heighton, Jane Urquhart, Elise Levine, Clarke Blaise, Michael Winter, and Mary Swan, among dozens of other fine authors.John Metcalf is the Senior Editor of Porcupine's Quill. An accomplished writer, editor, and anthologist, he is the author of more than a dozen works of fiction and non-fiction including "Adult Entertainment, The Lady Who Sold Furniture", and "Kicking Against the Pricks: Essays".

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