Browsing Faculty of Graduate Studies Online Theses by Subject "Modernism"
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"I am not I": Late Modernism and Metafiction in Canadian Fiction
(2012-08-24)This dissertation argues that a number of works of Canadian fiction usually designated as modernist fit more properly into the category of “late modernism”: a category that has only recently begun to emerge as a bridge ... -
Misdirecting Modernisms: The Gulf Between Rhetoric and Practice in Raymond Souster's Direction
(2022-04-18)By using Raymond Souster’s little magazine, Direction (1943-46), as a case study, this thesis addresses the gulf between rhetoric and practice in the development of Canadian modernism. In the Forties, Canadian modernists ... -
Ornament for Serious Purpose: Mina Loy and Gaudy Consumer Culture
(2011-08-25)Mina Loy’s work explores the gaudiness of consumer culture in its spectacle, extravagance and underlying falsity. “Giovanni Franchi,” “Three Moments in Paris” and “Virgins Plus Curtains Minus Dots” question the perceptive ... -
Writing Left: The Emergence of Modernism in English Canadian Literature
(2011-08-18)This dissertation complicates conventional understandings of the emergence of modernism in Canadian cultural production, proposing instead a multiplicity of modernist practices that emerge through direct engagement with ...