The vernacular muse : the eye and ear in contemporary literature
1987
Book
"The Vernacular Muse tackles head-on conservative Canadian critical theory and practice. Personal and provocative, Cooley's lucid essaysrange from the vernacular in prairie poetry, the poetics of the line break, and the poetry of eye versus ear to substantial readings of texts by Dorothy Livesay, Margaret Laurence, Michael Ondaatje, Sinclair Ross and Robert Duncan. The Vernacular Muse is the first collection of critical essays from a central figure in the making and recognition of prairie writing"--Page [4] of cover.
Item Details
ISBN:
- 9780888011244
- 0888011245
Description: 311 pages : portrait ; 22 cm
Notes:
- Canadiana.
- Includes bibliographical references.
Contents:
- Placing the vernacular: the eye and the ear in Saskatchewan poetry
- Antimacassared in the wilderness: art and nature in The Stone Angel
- Boundary walker: Robert Duncan in "A Poem Beginning with a Line by Pindar"
- Breaking & entering (thoughts on line breaks)
- The eye in Sinclair Ross's short stories
- The vernacular muse in prairie poetry
- Dorothy Livesay's political poetry
- "I am here on the edge": modern hero/postmodern poetics in The Collected Works of Billy the Kid.
Control Number: 1998323
Publisher: Winnipeg : Turnstone Press, [1987]