Vision in Canada?

There is a continually expanding school of prophecy in Canada from Jay Macpherson's "Boatman" to, in prose, Alice Munro's "Linoleum Caves," a verbal world from which young minds can learn how to make the world a better place to live in, and in a way, too, that science a...

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Published in:University of Toronto quarterly 2001-10, Vol.70 (4), p.937-946
Main Author: Reaney, James
Format: Article
Language:English
Subjects:
Advertisements
American literature
Canadian literature
Creativity
Culture
History & criticism
Literature
Mathematics
Poetry
Prose
Television
Twain, Mark (Samuel Langhorne Clemens) (1835-1910)
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Summary:There is a continually expanding school of prophecy in Canada from Jay Macpherson's "Boatman" to, in prose, Alice Munro's "Linoleum Caves," a verbal world from which young minds can learn how to make the world a better place to live in, and in a way, too, that science and mathematics cannot do except with the help of the word-masters. Nevertheless, one has to consider that there is a continually expanding school of advertising and commercial television in Canada.
ISSN:0042-0247
1712-5278
DOI:10.3138/utq.70.4.937