Re Reading The Postmodern Canadian Literature And Criticism After Modernism

Bringing together many of the country's most significant critics, including several of the originators of postmodern thought in Canada, this book marks a first step towards a history of Canadian postmodernism, exploring the development of the idea of the postmodern, debates about its meaning and its applicability to various genres of Canadian writing, and charting its decline in recent years as a favoured critical trope.--[book cover]