ENGL 229 Lecture Notes - Lecture 4: Robert Kroetsch, Literary Modernism, Fiction
3 Sep 2018
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Grew up in small town, rural alberta. Studies under professor mclennan, author of realistic fiction. Realistic fiction: fiction based on the assumption that the writer can record life around him on a recognizable basis. Called a slice of life in french lit. Realistic writers deal with things that are pragmatic, measureable knowable. Then heads to iowa to get a phd in writing. Is then hired to be a professor at state university of new york. Befriends postmodern professor editing magazine boundary 2 . 1972 boundary 2 is entirely dedicated to postmodernism in canada. Kroetsch saw himself as a border man caught between the polarities of canada and united states. Modernist literature is characterized chiefly by a rejection of 19th-century traditions and of their consensus between author and reader. 19th century traditions: based on assumptions that we understand the world we live in, that history is explainable, and that history has some kind of trajectory to it.
