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Temerity & Gall
Engelsk Paperback
Temerity & Gall
Engelsk Paperback

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“[Metcalf’s] talent is generous, hectoring, huge, and remarkable.”—Washington Post

In Temerity & Gall, Metcalf looks back on a lifetime spent in letters; surveys, with no punches pulled, the current state of CanLit; and offers a passionate defense of the promise and potential of Canadian writing.

In a 1983 editorial letter to the Globe and Mail, celebrated Canadian novelist W.P. Kinsella railed that “Mr. Metcalf—an immigrant—continually and in the most galling manner has the temerity to preach to Canadians about their own literature.” Forty years later, in spite of Kinsella’s effort to discredit him in the name of a misguided nationalism both embarrassing and familiar, John Metcalf still has the temerity and gall to preach, to teach, and to write passionately (and uproariously) about literature in Canada. Part memoir, meditation, and apologia, part criticism and pure Metcalf, the present volume distills a lifetime of reading and writing, thinking and collecting, and continues his necessary work kicking against the ever-present pricks. As is the case with all of his critical work, Temerity & Gall will challenge, delight, anger, and inspire in equal measure, and is essential reading for anyone interested in literature in Canada and its place within the wider tradition of writing in English.

Temerity & Gall is printed in a limited paperback edition of 750 copies signed and numbered by the author.

Product detaljer
Sprog:
Engelsk
Sider:
488
ISBN-13:
9781771964494
Indbinding:
Paperback
Udgave:
ISBN-10:
1771964499
Udg. Dato:
28 jul 2022
Længde:
31mm
Bredde:
217mm
Højde:
143mm
Forlag:
Biblioasis
Oplagsdato:
28 jul 2022
Forfatter(e):
Kategori sammenhænge